[identity profile] miss-next.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
This is an approximate answer, as I'm in Kendal and therefore not able to go and count them.

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Fair enough!
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[identity profile] pellegrina.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
N.b. This is after weeding out about a dozen earlier this year as I ran out of shelf, and a dozen last year, and does not include two volumes containing probably hundreds of recipes I've copied from 3-4 dozen books belonging to my mother and other libraries.

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the additional information.
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[identity profile] el-staplador.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Plus some more that I haven't yet liberated from my father's house.

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
It took me years to liberate all my books.

[identity profile] inamac.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I've put 100, but Lil has just counted 130 on the shelves by the kitchen, and I'm sure there are others scattered around.

Admittedly a lot are Sainsburys paperbacks - heavily used.

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
There's nothing wrong with supermarket paperbacks.

[identity profile] bookwormsarah.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I might *own* c15 cookbooks but I don't actually *use* them for more than food porn... Kudos for referencing on of my favourite Asimov stories!

[identity profile] lil-shepherd.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
We often turn to Apicius for general tips on cooking certain exotic meats, and occasionally use them in an everyday setting, though not with exactitude We've also tried early recipes from The British Museum Cookbook and various medieval recipe books.

[livejournal.com profile] inamac has answered the poll for the household, where I reckon we have about 150 cookery books of various types.

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
[livejournal.com profile] adaese and her mother both have various historical cookery books, stretching back through mediaeval to Anglo-Saxon, and thence to Roman.
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[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you :-)

[identity profile] kargicq.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
...but I rarely use any of them. Making up recipes is much more fun!

[identity profile] kargicq.livejournal.com 2010-08-18 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
More fun, as I said. At least, some of the time!

[identity profile] krakenwakes.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I do not eat. I am powered by non-sequiturs and the colour yellow.

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, another one! ;-)

[identity profile] the-marquis.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Not able to count them. also do you count the montly waitrose recipes cards as a book, or only each annual pile?

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
The latter, I think.

[identity profile] philmophlegm.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
How come my answer of '0' doesn't show in the chart?

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know, I'm afraid.

[identity profile] helflaed.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
0????? How do you manage?

[identity profile] philmophlegm.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
She has "somewhere between 'some' and 'many', but not 'lots'".

Closer inspection on my part reveals this to mean 'thirteen'.

[identity profile] philmophlegm.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Firstly, I know how to cook what I want to without recourse to detailed instructions. Secondly I much prefer meals with individual components to meals where several different ingredients are mushed into one (there are exceptions). Thirdly, bunn has thirteen cookbooks, one of which in particular is very useful on how to cook various foodstuffs. Finally, if I do need to look up how to cook something, I can always use the internet.

[identity profile] helflaed.livejournal.com 2010-08-18 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
Makes sense. I tend to use them for ideas, mostly- unless it is when using the correct measurements are in cakes and jams.

[identity profile] miss-t-ide.livejournal.com 2010-08-16 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Need to go and count them. Not going to do it now...

[identity profile] miss-t-ide.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
OK, I counted them. I have an awful lot of cook books for someone who very rarely follows a recipe...

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be quite a few even for someone who does follow recipes!
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[personal profile] emperor 2010-08-16 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I guessed, as I couldn't be bothered to go down two floors to count them :)

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
Bah, the youth of today, no-get-up-and-go ... ;-)
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[personal profile] chainmailmaiden 2010-08-16 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Your scale doesn't begin to go high enough :-D

I had 158 the last time I counted them properly, which was in 1996...

I've acquired one or two more since then so I'd guess somewhere between 300 to 400.

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, 158 + a couple = 300 to 400 ... you didn't do maths, did you ... ;-)

(Also: I knew someone would say that the scale didn't go high enough; and I thought it would probably be you!)
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[personal profile] chainmailmaiden 2010-08-17 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm, 158 + a couple = 300 to 400 ... you didn't do maths, did you ... ;-)

And that is why I choose procurement over finance as a career - we get to employ people to do the calculations for us :-D

It occurred to me that about 15 of them actually belong to Bacchus, so my estimate was a little high unless you count us as a household :-)

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-18 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Got a job for me? ;-)

[identity profile] helflaed.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
Mine is a bit of an estimate. I have to try very hard not to keep puying more books all the time though. I've been very restrained over the last couple of years and have even got rid of a few, so I've got about forty at the moment. It might be more though.

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
Estimates are fine!
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[identity profile] hmmm-tea.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Was going to tick 5 or 10, but then thought I'd count them to find out which it was...

appears I may have slightly under-estimated

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2010-08-17 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, 5 or 10 would have been a bit of an under-estimate!