a fun read over on SmittenKitchen: what was your first cookbook?
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I ordered a kids book from that summer Scholastic reading program.
Also remember cooking easy things from the Campbell's soup cookbook and the Joys of Jello. My Mom's Betty Crocker and Better Homes and Garden were used when I was allowed in the kitchen. Mom was pretty territorial about cooking and Dad liked her cooking and not much experimenting(very German meat and potatoes kinda guy), so we kids didn't really do alot of cooking on our own.
Also remember cooking easy things from the Campbell's soup cookbook and the Joys of Jello. My Mom's Betty Crocker and Better Homes and Garden were used when I was allowed in the kitchen. Mom was pretty territorial about cooking and Dad liked her cooking and not much experimenting(very German meat and potatoes kinda guy), so we kids didn't really do alot of cooking on our own.
heather_in_sf
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Spice Islands Cookbook! It was my mom's but it was the first I read and I snagged it when I moved..
susan_calgary
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a series of Favourite Recipes of Home Ec. teachers in the States.
My grade 7 Home Ec teacher recommended them as well as "The Canadian Cook Book" by Helen Wattie & Elinor Donaldson. Don't know what happened to the series of Home Ec. teachers favourites, but I still have the Canadian Cook Book. The recipes marked (from way back then) in the index are: Pink Lady Punch, Lasagna, Frozen Cheese and Fruit Salad, and Shrimp Creole with Rice. The back of the book has some blank pages labeled "Favourite Recipes" where I wrote in recipes from elsewhere, like Shrimp Stuffed Peppers, and Cherry Refrigerator Desert - old favourites I haven't make in about 40 years. Fun to look back on.
My grade 7 Home Ec teacher recommended them as well as "The Canadian Cook Book" by Helen Wattie & Elinor Donaldson. Don't know what happened to the series of Home Ec. teachers favourites, but I still have the Canadian Cook Book. The recipes marked (from way back then) in the index are: Pink Lady Punch, Lasagna, Frozen Cheese and Fruit Salad, and Shrimp Creole with Rice. The back of the book has some blank pages labeled "Favourite Recipes" where I wrote in recipes from elsewhere, like Shrimp Stuffed Peppers, and Cherry Refrigerator Desert - old favourites I haven't make in about 40 years. Fun to look back on.
Are you talking about Mary Margaret McBride's Encyclopedia of Cooking? It was
huge, over 1500 pages and about 4 inches thick when assembled. Yellow cover. I still have mine put away somewhere and sadly, I collected it, not my mother. The only thing I remember making from it was a curried rice and I still use the recipe.
huge, over 1500 pages and about 4 inches thick when assembled. Yellow cover. I still have mine put away somewhere and sadly, I collected it, not my mother. The only thing I remember making from it was a curried rice and I still use the recipe.
melissa-dallas
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"My First Cookbook" distributed by Imperial Sugar. You ordered it from an address on the sugar bag.
I think snickerdoodles were one of the things I remember making from it. Of course, we always cooked with mama and she had lots including the old Betty Crocker, Julie Bennell, one of the Pillsbury Bake-Off cookbooks. My sis and I could bake from the time we could stand on chairs at the counter.
I think snickerdoodles were one of the things I remember making from it. Of course, we always cooked with mama and she had lots including the old Betty Crocker, Julie Bennell, one of the Pillsbury Bake-Off cookbooks. My sis and I could bake from the time we could stand on chairs at the counter.
desertjean
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BH&G kids cookbook that I won
in Vacation Bible School for memorizing the most verses.
in Vacation Bible School for memorizing the most verses.
I still use a Fleishman's yeast booklet that I got in college at some homemaker show
where they demonstrated recipes and household tips and then gave out bags of groceries with the sponsored items. The Oatmeal Bread and the Hamburger Bun recipe were just the greatest. It had different sections, one for traditional proofing of yeast, another with adding yeast to the flour and then a refrigerator dough section. Excuse me while I go "in search of. . ."
where they demonstrated recipes and household tips and then gave out bags of groceries with the sponsored items. The Oatmeal Bread and the Hamburger Bun recipe were just the greatest. It had different sections, one for traditional proofing of yeast, another with adding yeast to the flour and then a refrigerator dough section. Excuse me while I go "in search of. . ."
The first cookbook I owned was Joy of Cooking
given to me by my MIL when we were married.
Soon after that, she gave me both volumes of Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child.
Another set I relied on a lot for the early years of our marriage was The Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cooking, which I still have and turn to regularly for good. basic recipes.
I remember growing up with a very worn copy of the Good Housekeeping Cookbook which my mother still has. I have an updated edition, which is not the same.
given to me by my MIL when we were married.
Soon after that, she gave me both volumes of Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child.
Another set I relied on a lot for the early years of our marriage was The Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cooking, which I still have and turn to regularly for good. basic recipes.
I remember growing up with a very worn copy of the Good Housekeeping Cookbook which my mother still has. I have an updated edition, which is not the same.