Who else has a collection of "Send In The Wrapper" free cookbooks?

In The Sticks

In The Sticks

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I just made a bacon horseradish dip for veggies, and pulled out my hardcover Lea & Perrins cookbook for the recipe.

I have tons of these:
-Land O' Lakes
-Carnation Sweetened Condensed Milk
-Texas Pete Tabasco Sauce

These are real nice hardcover books!
Then there are all the paperback ones, like Red Star Yeast.
Either way, I would rarely pass up the opportunity to get another cookbook in the pre-internet days.

I love these things. Lots of good recipes. There's nothing like chocolate cookies made with chocolate squares, sweetened condensed milk and Bisquick!

Of course, there are those "You gotta be kidding me" filler recipes that have 3 cups of liquid and 2 drops of Worcestershire sauce, but for the most part I've found a lot of keepers in these.

Anyone else here used to regularly send away for these?
Anyone here still do? It's been a while for me, but I've never discarded them.
 

No, but I wish I still had my Campbell's soup cookbook that I got when I was a young bride. My poor husband was subjected to inhumane amounts of Cream of Whatever while I struggled to learn how to cook.
 

C'est Moi said:
No, but I wish I still had my Campbell's soup cookbook that I got when I was a young bride. My poor husband was subjected to inhumane amounts of Cream of Whatever while I struggled to learn how to cook.
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Did you search olnine for it?. I did looking for a cookbook written in 1945 and sound several for sale.
 
Last year I weeded out a couple hundred cookbooks of all types.

I have a few old pamphlets from various food companies and a few old church cookbooks.

I really enjoyed the Land O' Lakes hardcover cookbook.

The good news is that most of the old recipes are floating around on the internet.

This is one of my favorite oldies that was published in 1933 by General Foods to promote the use of double-acting baking powder.

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Aunt Bea said:
Last year I weeded out a couple hundred cookbooks of all types.

I have a few old pamphlets from various food companies and a few old church cookbooks.

I really enjoyed the Land O' Lakes hardcover cookbook.

The good news is that most of the old recipes are floating around on the internet.

This is one of my favorite oldies that was published in 1933 by General Foods to promote the use of double-acting baking powder.

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Double-acting baking powder was cutting edge technology!

No longer did you have to rush from bowl-to-pan-to-oven and hope real hard.
 
I have many of them. Every once in awhile ,for a change in my reading material, I grab a few and go through them. I've come across a few recipes I missed the first time around.
Sometimes ingredients are not available anymore and the can size has certainly shrunk but its such fun reading them.
I purged a lot this past year but I'm not getting rid of my cookbook collection.
 
I don't think we had send-in-the-wrapper-free-cookbooks here in Canada.
Once upon a time, I had SO many recipes .. so many of which I had never tried. I went through them and donated them to Goodwill. Don't know if anyone would have wanted them though. I have some of my husband's grandmother's Scottish recipe books somewhere in storage.
 
Pinky said:
I have an old Mennonite cookbook that has old-wives remedies for sore throats, etc. It has an easy recipe for beef stroganoff that's very tasty.
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I have two cookbooks from the 1950s published by The Ladies of Christ Hamilton Church in Pennsylvania in Shroudsburg, Pennsylvania. I got them at a yard sale. Have some great recipes in them. That congregation is still active, as a matter of fact.

And I, too, have tons of recipes. Recipes I've clipped out of thepaper, recipes I've written down. Plus I have my mother's recipes that she collected over her lifetime.
 
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