This book was written in about 1985 and does show it a bit!
I had a bit of a giggle reading the pages about 'exotic fruit and veg' like courgette, aubergine (actually now I think of it they do have french names... possibly something to do with them not actually being british...!) and pepper and limes... stuff I took for granted as having always been around really.
But the good side effect of that is that you end up having more local produce in the recipes and not much 'fancy stuff' that is hard to find. Although some of the things in the recipes I'm not sure what they are, like 'white fat' (I just use veg oil), and 'barbados sugar', I would just use brown sugar for that perhaps.
It's bit plainer than other fancy vegan cookbooks, but it's good British cooking, like your mum would have made, were she a 1980s vegan mum!
My fave recipe from it is Curried TVP, which I love, but now I flick through the book, I can't remember much else that we've made from it!! I have a few recipes picked out for making in the near future, and there are a few more I saw that look good. I think it feels more like winter cooking to me, the more heavier, heartier sort of foods, rather than the lighter, more exotically flavoured stuff I've been eating in the warmer months.
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