Rubbish cook books

I love to cook and have quite a few recipe books, only one of them had a recipe for either flakey or puff pastry and I could find no recipe for rough puff pastry. Several of the books had recipes needing puff pastry, but they all said "shop bought", I don't want to buy it ready made, it's mostly horrible and expensive too, especially in larger quantities, if you can buy it in large quantities, most packs would barely be enough for a couple of pasties.

I get really fed up of recipe books that don't tell you the basics, I might only make puff or flakey pastry once or twice a year so I don't remember the recipes, but why is it so difficult?

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  • BBCgood food is an excellent source of recipes with no long stories or videos. This includes a lot of technical stuff like rough puff and stuff. 

    The book my family has always used for covering the essentials is Good Housekeeping. It's enormous, and has many different editions, but it has good instructions for all the classics. 

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