I will add pictures of the books as I use them. There are... um... more than a few...
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Pine Springs Community Center Cook Book, Tyler, TX 1973
This
is a local cookbook that I found at a garage sale. It is pretty beaten
up and the cake section is covered with notes and splatters. That's a
sign of a good cookbook, in my opinion. |
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Ohio State Grange Cook Book, 1952 |
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Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts, 1980. I had
two reasons for buying this one: 1) chocolate and 2) at a glance, the
author resembles my mother-in-law, circa 1975. But it was mostly for
#1. |
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Better Homes and Gardens new Cook Book, 1953. This one was so
battered that I felt like I had to give it a good home. It's a good
thing, too, because it contains my go-to yellow layer cake, the Best
Two-Egg Cake recipe. |
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The New Fannie Farmer Boston Cooking School Cook Book, 1951. I have
several editions of this book, from a reproduction copy of the original
1896 book through this one. |
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Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, 1950, reprinted in the
mid-1990s. I taught myself to cook with my mom's copy of this book and
it's still one of my most-used books.
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Farm Journal's Country Cookbook, 1959. My mom has always liked
the cookbooks from Farm Journal, so when I saw this one at an estate
sale I picked it up. While browsing it, I saw a shout out for Reader
Recipe Month over at Caker Cooking and this masterpiece was chosen to be a part of it. |
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Rumford Complete Cook Book, 1941. |
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Betty Crocker's Cookbook, 1969. |
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Idle Hour Cook Book, 1950. This is the recipe book/manual that came with my Chambers stove. |
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Mrs. Beeton's Everyday Cookery, 1963.
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Cooking on a Ration by Marjorie Mills, 1943 |
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Toll House Heritage Cookbook, 1980 |
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Favorite Recipes from Our Best Cooks, St. Agatha Church, Bridgeville, PA (1968) |
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Cookies by Bess by Bess Hoffman (1980) |
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Azaleas to Zucchini, East Texas Food, Festivals and Entertainment from A to Z (1995) by the Smith County Medical Society Alliance |
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Bake the No-Knead Way: Ann Pillsbury's Amazing Discovery (1946) |
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Recipes from Scotland by F. Marian McNeill (seventh edition, 1965) |
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The Gasparilla Cookbook: Favorite Florida West Coast Recipes (1961) |
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Pillsbury's Best 1000 Recipes: Best of the BAKE-OFF Collection (1959) |
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The Southern Living Cookbook, 1995 |
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Learn to Bake... You'll Love It!, General Foods 1947 |
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Pi Beta Phi Cook Book, 1936 |
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Tried Recipes by the Grafton Lutheran Ladies Aid, Grafton, N.D. (1961). A borrowed book, but maybe I can borrow it and forget to give it back sometime. ;) |
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A Treasury of Great Recipes by Mary and Vincent Price (1965) |
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Crestview Culinary Collections, Compiled by the Cooks of Crestview Christian Church, Greenville, Texas (1962) |
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Baking with Brother Boniface, Mepkin Abbey (1997) |
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The Settlement Cookbook, 1965 |
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Watkins Hearthside Cookbook, 1952 |
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Favorite Eastern Star Recipes, Olde Family Favorites, no date, but probably late 1950s |
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Mennonite Community Cookbook Favorite Family Recipes by Mary Emma Showalter. Originally published in 1950, this printing 1986 |
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The Boston Cooking School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer, 1942 |
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Betty Feezor's Carolina Recipes, Volume 1, 1971 (I think) |
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Our Favorite Recipes by Abilene School Food Service Association (no date) |
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The Campus Survival Cookbook, 1973
The Victory Binding of the American Woman's Cook Book Wartime Edition, 1943
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Any one can Bake by the Royal Baking Powder Co., 1929 |
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The Good Housekeeping Book of Menus, Recipes and Household Discoveries, 1922 |
I have the no-knead bread book and explored it a couple of years ago. It's quite good, except now I have heavy duty KA mixer, so I don't mind kneading anymore. :)
ReplyDeleteIs it bad if I have a KA mixer and *still* use it to mix up the no-knead recipes? ;)
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