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The Alcoholic Cookbook is a British cookery book by the journalist Jennifer Stone, published in 1972. All the recipes in its three sections – Starters, Main Dishes and Puddings – call for wine, spirits or other alcoholic ingredients.

Misc
Stone was the Home and Shopping Editor of the Evening Standard.

Recipes used or book referred to in the following (although needs checking):
 * Colin Spencer's Vegetarian Wholefood Cookbook by Colin Spencer
 * The Complete Grill Cookbook by Pamela Westland
 * Creole Caribbean Cooking by Kenneth Gardnier
 * For Starters by Ingeborg Pertwee
 * Grandma's Country Scrapbook by Pamela Allardice
 * Living Without Sugar by Elbie Lebrecht
 * Wine, Beer and Spirits by Dean Tudor


 * First published in 1972 by Michael Joseph; 187 pages with illustrations by Kate Simunek.
 * Republished in 1978 by Mayflower; 191 pages.
 * Released in the US as Cheap and Easy Cooking with Wines, Liquors, and Liqueurs in 1974 by Doubleday. (Awaiting a copy of this before confirming - will start writing when it gets here)

Contents
The book contains 60 recipes for starters, 100 main courses, and 92 for puddings.


 * Heretical views here and there, e.g. Beef Stroganoff: "For years I cooked it but rarely believing that it would only work with top-quality fillet. My local butcher told me that that simply wasn't true and that any good-quality frying steak would do." Not to mention her bizarre version of Reform Sauce on p. 82 - no gherkins, no mushrooms, no tongue.

Reviews
"Down the Market", Hazel Turkington, The Belfast Telegraph, 23 August 1978, p. 6:
 * Each of the quick and easy to cook recipes have one ingredient in common: a hint of alcohol. Measures of the liquid ingredients aren't likely to make you stagger from the dinner table but the dish may, indeed, go to your head!

"Books", Burton Observer and Chronicle, 20 October 1978, p. 10
 * Jennifer Stone's book of boozy recipes not only sounds delicious they taste it. All too often the results of cooking with alcohol put me in low spirits, but these attempts were an exception. Dishes in the Alcoholic Cookbook actually work, and almost as important, they don't need hours of slaving in the kitchen.

"Autumn Fare", Janet Buckton, Coventry Evening Telegraph, 3 October 1978, p. 48
 * Jennifer Stone shows how to use booze in all kinds of recipes in "The Alcoholic Cookbook" (Mayflower £1). Some of the ideas are so simple they're a delight. Others are more expensive. But a dash of alcohol does wonders for even basic recipes and makes a dish just that bit more exciting.

"We are what we cook", Roger Baker, The Times, 30 November 1972, page III
 * The critic Roger Baker, reviewing in The Times, thought the work "is rather spoiled by some crass writing of the whoops! ... hic! variety and a total lack of information about the effect of alcohol in cooking and on food.