Women's Weekly Cookbooks

I read a cooking blog from the UK this morning and it triggered memories from my many, many trips to England in search of antiques.  I stayed at the Barkston and across the street was a bookstore.  Now these were not leisurely trips with tea and crumpets (unless you had them in hand and on the run or standing up in a field.) These were totally working trips and if I saw the sites it was in passing and on the move.  However, some Sundays there was little to do in the way of shopping so I would calm and sooth myself at the bookshop across the street. It was a chain bookshop and really well staffed and stocked.  One lucky day I saw a pile of sleek, thick, lovely what I called magazines but what was really called weekly cookbooks from Australia.  They were glorious and as it happens they still are.  Yes, this company is still producing WEEKLY these lovely cookbooks and they are just stunning in color, in correctness (each recipe having been tested three times before publication)  And, the good news is, you can still buy them.  I have maybe thirty or so back as early as the 1980's and I am sure they were producing far before I found them. Today the box was ticked again and I got on Amazon and started buying those that I thought I didn't have.  Now Amazon won't let you buy what you have already bought because they shoot a warning at the top and it reads the date you previously purchased the item, saving me some money.  I do love Amazon and I love these Women's Weekly cookbooks. So google and enjoy.  I know in the 500 posts I've made I wrote about this before, but I am certain people have forgotten this subject with all the recipes floating the Internet. The picture of the clafouti at the top of each of my posts came from the Women's Weekly cookbooks.