Cookbooks

[Matterhorn Fan]

Must...resist...amazon.com...

Actually, my mother will be asking soon what I want for Christmas. Now I know what to tell her.

I love cookbooks. Most of mine are the "bargain table" variety, and the recipes show it often enough that I should reevaluate my cookbook shelf.

[cirquelover]

Now this is something up my alley! I have at least 1,000 cookbooks. I used to have one with recipes from Mary Lincoln but my ex MIL took it when her son left!

I have lots of vintage, some of which I still use.
The 1963 Betty Crocker cooky book, it still comes out for use.
A 70's Betty cook book
A 60's Mike Douglas
70's Better Homes & Gardens. assorted

I have a ton of the Pillsbury bake off little paperback books
Many regional cookbooks, even from Australia

I have a Readers Digest Creative Cooking which is great. It has recipes for every season and tells you what's in season. It has pictures of lots of fruits and veggies.

I also have a mass collection of HP books, most from the 70's and 80's. Do they even still publish books?

Most recipes are just a guideline for me, unless I'm trying something completely new. Sometimes I peruse them just to get new ideas for flavors or for a new idea.

My grandma gave me a subscription to Quick Cooking for many years so I have a lot of those laying around.
I don't even want to talk about the old Bon Appetite and Choclatier magazines in the garage! Of course I have'nt seen them for years so they shouldn't count, right

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by cirquelover

Now this is something up my alley! I have at least 1,000 cookbooks. I used to have one with recipes from Mary Lincoln but my ex MIL took it when her son left!

Wow! I am impressed! 1000 cookbooks!

[Prudence]

I've got a copy of two 16th century cookbooks. And excerpts from others. (And some I access online - mostly Italian.) Been meaning to pick up a few others - Huswife's Jewell and such.

I have a new Mediterranean cookbook that looks interesting, but I haven't had time to cook lately. I also have new Lebanese and Indian cookbooks that I have yet to test out. Hmmm....

I love the pictures in the Williams-Sonoma series. That's my food porn.

[3894]

Originally Posted by Prudence

I've got a copy of two 16th century cookbooks.

Have you made any of the dishes? You undoubtedly know the late-medieval cookbook put together by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1970's. It was bread for a plate and stew with nutmeg or cinnamon, as I remember.

Originally Posted by cirquelover

A 60's Mike Douglas

Is it actually Mike Douglas cooking or people who came on his show?

Originally Posted by Not Afriad

The Tassajara Bread Book

Really good, eh? amazon here I come ...

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by 3894

Have you made any of the dishes? You undoubtedly know the late-medieval cookbook put together by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1970's. It was bread for a plate and stew with nutmeg or cinnamon, as I remember.

Actually, I wasn't familiar with those. There are apparently two from the Metropolitan Museum of Art - one from Richard II's time and one Elizabethan. (Incidentally, the Elizabethan era was a time of major culinary shift as well.)

I've made a bunch of the dishes from the one I have. Really tasty, actually. There are a number of things that are in the "regular" meal rotation.

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by 3894

Really good, eh? amazon here I come ...

My tried and true Popover recipe is from there - although popovers are pretty basic. I've taken some classes from Ed Brown. He's a wonderful guy, a great teacher and a Buddhist monk.

I used to make bread quite frequently. The El Fornaio Bread Book is also really good for those lovely crispy on the outside, warm and soft on the inside loafs.

[Ponine]

I have a tad more time today, but still no titles. <sigh>

I just like cookbooks. I've recently started thinning my collection. I got rid of many cake books that I had.
I dont bake much anymore, and I dont work in chocolate, what did I need them all for?

I have a ton of the point of sale pillsbury and such books... esp the Kid ones, and the Halloween. If you show me food made into a spider on the cover, I will more than likely buy it.

I believe my Betty Crocker book is from 1960, and at times I swear by the Better homes and Gardens.
But beyond that... Emril and Alton and Rachel, if they wrote a book, I have it.
101 ways to Make..... Have it.

I used to get a ton of use out of What to Cook when there is Nothing in the House to Eat.
And the Frugal Gourmet books are very well used....
What else, what else... Binders full of clippings.....

[3894]

Originally Posted by Ponine

I believe my Betty Crocker book is from 1960, and at times I swear by the Better homes and Gardens.
But beyond that... Emril and Alton and Rachel, if they wrote a book, I have it.
101 ways to Make..... Have it.

Yours is a life well spent, Ponine.

Last summer, a friend lent us her house in Wyoming while she was in Alaska. She's a chef and her house has many, many cookbooks. Shelves and shelves of cookbooks and all her binders of notes from the culinary institute she went to (in Rhode Island? or was it Massachusetts?) She had recently sold her own successful café and had written a cookbook of those recipes.

Anyway, of all the houses to summer in, the house of a chef ain't a bad choice.

[lashbear]

Too many to count (surprise, surprise)

I have a lot of 50's and 60's cookbooks,
A couple of 30's
and one really special one from the Queensland CWA (Country Womens Association) dated (I think) 1917 - I'm scanning it cos it's starting to crumble.