Delia's Complete How to Cook

Here you have all the three of the How To Cook Book One, Two & Three books together.

Delia de-mystifies cooking, sharpens up your skills and teaches you how to have confidence in your own kitchen.

The Delia Online Cookery School: Yes - it’s the book with the boiled egg on the cover. You can watch how to soft and hard boil eggs in our video. Just click the image to play.

Toffee-fudge Bananas with Toasted Nuts

The world record for making this recipe is not five minutes, but just three – it's quite simply the fastest...

The world record for making this recipe is not five minutes, but just three – it's quite simply the fastest dessert recipe I've ever come across. It's also amazingl...

Tortilla (Spanish Omelette)

I sometimes marvel how it is that three basic, very inexpensive ingredients - eggs, onions and potatoes - c...

I sometimes marvel how it is that three basic, very inexpensive ingredients - eggs, onions and potatoes - can be transformed into something so utterly sublime. Yet ...

20 minutes - 25 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Traditional Lemon Meringue Pie

Everyone in my cookery team agreed that this famous English classic needed a revival. It is suprem...

Everyone in my cookery team agreed that this famous English classic needed a revival. It is supremely light, squashy and fragrant with lemons. How did we ever...

Roast Chicken with Stuffing and Gravy

This is a family roast chicken, moist and succulent for Sunday lunch, with lots of crispy bacon, real chick...

This is a family roast chicken, moist and succulent for Sunday lunch, with lots of crispy bacon, real chicken-flavoured gravy, some very savoury stuffing and a sauce. ...

1 hour 50 minutes - 2 hours 20 minutes

to cook

Seville Orange Marmalade

You can find some very good shop-bought marmalade now, but it's still never ever like home-made. The int...

You can find some very good shop-bought marmalade now, but it's still never ever like home-made. The intensely sharp, bitter Seville oranges here hold their own, co...

Vegetarian

Tropical Fruit Jellies

This is a cheat's recipe. The tropical fruit juice comes freshly squeezed – in a bottle from the superma...

This is a cheat's recipe. The tropical fruit juice comes freshly squeezed – in a bottle from the supermarket. And, what's more, this really beautiful dessert contai...

Tropical Fruit Salad in Planter's Punch

Planter's punch, a popular drink throughout the Caribbean, is a delicious combination of rum, orange, lime ...

Planter's punch, a popular drink throughout the Caribbean, is a delicious combination of rum, orange, lime and pineapple juice, with just a trace of cinnamon and nutme...

Tunisian Aubergine Salad

This is my adaptation of an Elizabeth David recipe. I never actually made it from her book, but one of m...

This is my adaptation of an Elizabeth David recipe. I never actually made it from her book, but one of my favourite restaurants, Chez Bruce, in Wandsworth, London, ...

Vegetarian

Turkey Saltimbocca

This is a variation on the famous Italian recipe made with thin escalopes of veal – but turkey is usually e...

This is a variation on the famous Italian recipe made with thin escalopes of veal – but turkey is usually easier to find. However, you can ring the changes by using...

Tuscan Bean and Pasta Soup

This is a big, hefty soup, perfect for the winter months with a light main course to follow. Alternative...

This is a big, hefty soup, perfect for the winter months with a light main course to follow. Alternatively, it is a complete lunch, with just some cheese and a sala...

Vegetarian

Vanilla Bean Ice Cream with Espresso

This is my long-standing, classic vanilla ice cream recipe, which I think is much improved of late, having ...

This is my long-standing, classic vanilla ice cream recipe, which I think is much improved of late, having incorporated a whole vanilla pod, with its speckly seeds, an...

Very Red Rice

This was a recipe created for Comic Relief, hence the title, and I always have a good giggle thinking back ...

This was a recipe created for Comic Relief, hence the title, and I always have a good giggle thinking back to the filming of those hilarious cookery demonstrations tha...

55 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Warm Chocolate Rum Souffles

These are very light and chocolatey, and made even more wonderful by the addition of chocolate sauce and cr...

These are very light and chocolatey, and made even more wonderful by the addition of chocolate sauce and cream. They’re also reasonably well-behaved and though they...

10 minutes

to cook

Warm Spinach Salad with Poached Eggs

This is actually a delightful combination of sausage, egg, bacon and mushrooms. Sorry about the chips – ...

This is actually a delightful combination of sausage, egg, bacon and mushrooms. Sorry about the chips – but you won't miss them because the salad leaves, crisp, cru...

Watercress Soup

Watercress is a star performer in so many ways. I love the fat, green leaves in salads, sprinkled with r...

Watercress is a star performer in so many ways. I love the fat, green leaves in salads, sprinkled with rock salt in sandwiches, in a sauce and perhaps most of all i...

Vegetarian

Watercress and Buttermilk Vichyssoise

You could serve this soup warm if you prefer, but I think a chilled soup is no different in winter from a c...

You could serve this soup warm if you prefer, but I think a chilled soup is no different in winter from a cold starter and both have the advantage of being made in adv...

30 minutes - 35 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Watercress and Caper Mash

Watercress and Caper Mash: Front image This is a recipe for mashed potato that's great served with fish....

Watercress and Caper Mash: Front image This is a recipe for mashed potato that's great served with fish. I love it with some freshly grilled mackerel or herring, an...

Welsh Rabbit (Rarebit) with Sage and Onions

Rarebit or rabbit? I like the latter, which (so the story goes) is what the hunter had for his supper when ...

Rarebit or rabbit? I like the latter, which (so the story goes) is what the hunter had for his supper when the rabbits had escaped his gun. The Delia Online Cookery...

White Bean and Tuna Salad

This is my version of an old Italian favourite, and I think the addition of a sharp lemon dressing and some...

This is my version of an old Italian favourite, and I think the addition of a sharp lemon dressing and some buttery rocket leaves gives a lovely edge. If you forget...

Mayonnaise for Sauce Tartare

This sauce has a mayonnaise base, which in this case is made by the quick method: that is, using a whole eg...

This sauce has a mayonnaise base, which in this case is made by the quick method: that is, using a whole egg and a food processor blender. The sauce will kee...

Vegetarian

Wholemeal Loaf

The poet Pam Ayres once said, when describing her home-made wholemeal bread, that it was like 'biting into ...

The poet Pam Ayres once said, when describing her home-made wholemeal bread, that it was like 'biting into a cornfield', and that's it – the very best description I've...

40 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Wild Mushroom Tartlets

This is my version of one of the most brilliant first courses I've ever eaten. It was created by Michel ...

This is my version of one of the most brilliant first courses I've ever eaten. It was created by Michel Bourdin, head chef at London's prestigious Connaught Hotel. ...

Vegetarian

Zabaglione

I have to admit that the classic way of making this is in a bowl fitted over barely simmering water – which...

I have to admit that the classic way of making this is in a bowl fitted over barely simmering water – which does take 20 minutes' whisking. So for busy people like ...

Zabaglione Ice Cream with Biscotti

Once you’ve mastered the art of making Zabaglione, you’ve got the perfect base for a brilliant ice cream, a...

Once you’ve mastered the art of making Zabaglione, you’ve got the perfect base for a brilliant ice cream, and if you fold in some crushed biscotti (hard-baked, brittle...