Topic: Anyone read this book??

[mike travis]

Hi team  got this book from library and wondered if anyone has come across it.It called 50 Great Curries of India. by Camellia Panjabi....There is a recipe for a daag curry base.. Sound familiar... ;D

[Curry King]

I've got that one Mike, it's not bad I've tried a couple of the recipes, can't remember  what my favorite one was, I will check when I get home.

cK

[mike travis]

Hi both,  some of the recipes look really tempting, I might have a go one of these days, I still have a lot to try from here first...

What about a book simply entitled "Curries" by Meg Jansz..Hamlyn books. Its similar to the 50 Indian Curries one but takes a journey through Asia from India to Sri Lanka and Thailand to Indonesia. Over 100 recipes...

            cheers..... ;D

[tempest63]

Hi Mike,
It is without doubt one of my favourite books however there are, as far as I am aware, three versions of the book available and all of them have incomplete recipes within. The Chicken Stew, The Parsee Red Chicken Curry,The Lamb Korma Pilaf, The Rogan Josh and The Kofta Curry (if you have the really old issue)all come to mind as having errors in the recipes.
Either the ingredients listed do not tie in with the script or there are errors where you are asked to reserve some particular part of the recipe and it is never called for again.
Anyone who has experience cooking curries can work out where it has gone awry and correct it but be careful.
As an aside I bought the first version of the book and when the second version, the small one, was released I wrote to the publishers to point out that the errors in the first issue had not been corrected and were inherent in the second issue, I even told them what the errors were. Thus I bought the third release expecting all the mistakes to be put right but upon unwrapping it when I got home I found that not all had been attended to.

The real laugh is the comment from the author thanking the proof reader?

T63

[Graeme]

1) Prawns in hot and sweet curry, very very nice (like a Prawn Pathia)
2) Egg curry worth a go for sure.

graeme.