This is the scrapbook I started some decades ago when I was a penniless student
and unable to afford the lovely glossy cookbooks in the bookshops.
I read and tried and then cut out and kept recipes that worked for me.
The much battered and abused scrapbook was recently found
at the back of a cupboard.
Here it is open at a page that holds Constance Spry's recipe for a chocolate roulade.
She was the founder of the Cordon Bleu School, and legend has it that she
paid £100 to a Paris chef for this recipe.