Allyson Gofton's Recipe Journal

Allyson Gofton's Recipe Journal is the perfect solution to keeping all your favourite recipes together in one place. Featuring more than forty of Allyson's own mouth-watering recipes and her trademark tips, this beautiful Recipe Journal is a must-have for every home cook, to add to even the most extensive cookbook library.

• Six sections for you to sort your own favourite recipes, each section beginning with a tabbed divider containing a handy pocket to store loose recipes in.
• More than 100 pages for your recipes
• Write-in index at the back to complete the location of other favourite cookbook recipes and quickly find them.
• Concealed wiro-bound hardback format makes it lie flat and easy to use in the kitchen while still looking good on your bookshelf.

Review

"We all have our favourite recipes and have collected favourite recipes from family and friends over the years so this book is something I’m sure every home cook would find useful: it’s a collection of more than 40 recipes from the author herself, compiled in the form of a journal that allows space for the owner to add in their own favourites.

This clever little package is divided into poultry, meat, seafood, vegetables, sweet and miscellaneous categories and each section also includes little pockets to hold all those loose clippings we tend to have from magazines and so on.

How often have you scribbled down a recipe from a friend only to lose track of the piece of paper by the time you got around to trying your hand at it yourself? This book will save you from yourself. Even more clever is the section at the very end of the book where you can record a list of your other favourite recipes in other books, the name of the book and the page.

If you’re still not convinced that you need to buy this book, the Crunchie Bar ice cream recipe should do it." Jillian Allison-Aitken, Books By George

SAMPLE RECIPE
Crunchie Bar Ice-cream (pictured left)

Oh-so-easy and delicious, if ever-so-decadent, but it’s okay to enjoy now and then, especially with friends.

Serves 4
Preparation time 15 minutes
Freezing time overnight

Ingredients:
2 cups cream, chilled
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
395g can condensed milk
Three 50g Crunchie bars

Method:
Whip the cream and vanilla essence until thick.
Fold in the condensed milk.
Chop the Crunchie Bars and fold into the cream mixture.
Place in a freezer-proof bowl and freeze overnight until set. Eat within 7–10 days.

‘Whether you scribble down a recipe in great detail or jot down only the essentials, keeping a journal is a wonderful way to find your family’s best-loved recipes in a hurry. It may even encourage the family to cook from it and add in their own ideas as well. So here are a few of my most treasured recipes, with a sprinkling of tips and plenty of space for you to add all of your own favourites. If only aprons and recipe journals could talk, what stories they would tell, of mothers packing lunches or baking cakes. They’d laugh away the failures, talk jovially of success, but most of all they’d tell us: Mum’s cooking is the best.’ Allyson Gofton