Did/Do You Have This Book?

Jazzy1

Jazzy1

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Nope!

My grandmother had a very old handwritten scrapbook with recipes, a few dog eared pamphlets and a few bound church cookbooks along with bound cookbooks from food manufacturers.

This one was and still is a favorite.

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In the early 70s my mother received a paperback copy of the Fannie Farmer cookbook that she consulted from time to time but most of her best recipes came from friends and the backs of boxes and cans.

I had a collection of several hundred cookbooks but have gradually gotten down to about a dozen. I mainly use the internet.
 
In the beginning, the kitchen was without form and void, and darkness lingered over the face of the unseasoned pantry. Then Betty said, ā€œLet there be light,ā€ and she preheated the oven to 350Ā°F, and there was light. She saw the flour, that it was good, and she divided the dry ingredients from the wet, sifting the heavens from the earth. From the dust of the cupboard, she fashioned the perfect pie crust, breathing into it the warm aroma of cinnamon until it became a living pastry. She looked upon the casserole, the chiffon cake, and the golden-brown roast, and behold, it was very good; thus, she established the Red Spoon in the firmament to guide all mankind through the wilderness of hunger and into the promised land of the Sunday dinner.
 
Yes, we have it. That is, she has it among her approximately 8 million cookbooks clogging up the pantry along with her mother's, and her aunt's, and her own, file boxes and binders of hand-written recipes.

The other cookbook nearly everyone I ever knew had was Joy of Cooking, and we have two of those because we both had one when we met.

But my favorite cookbook is White Trash Cooking by Ernest Matthew Pickler where you will find things like "Aunt Rosie Deaton's All-American Slum-Gullion" and "Uncle Willie's Swamp Cabbage Stew." And no, we have never made anything out of this book except for the always popular "Potato Chip Sandwiches."
 
No.

My mother-in-law gave my wife "The American Woman's Cook Book," published in 1938, [Sometimes titled "The Great American Woman's Cook Book"] It had step by step instructions on preparing a chicken from scratch, including de-feathering - - - the whole works from start to finish. Most recipes were plain, no short cut easy meals. I recall seeing recipes in it for preparing broccoli and cauliflower and it famously described broccoli as a "new vegetable" that was "gaining in popularity across the United States." :ROFLMAO:

My daughter always wanted that book. We finally relented and gave it to her. She moved from place to place, often leaving all possessions behind. Since I'm no longer in touch with her, I also have no idea what became of the book. Wish I still had it.
 
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