Your Favorite Cookbooks

[toploader55]

I am with Eugene... AllRecipes is my go to these days.

But I always like to use anything by Julia Child and Jaques Pepin. He is so awesome, a great teacher, and inspiration. I just love the way he explains his technique and food.

My Favorite when you really want to hit some of the Classic French is LaVarenne. Just some exquisite recipes.

The Pate Brisee and Pate Sucree are just phenomenal.

 

[askolover]

My favorite cookbooks are the church ladies cookbooks and the one from my first hospital job...it's huge and packed with EVERY food recipe imaginable...even cicada pie!

 

[dermacie]

I love church-lady cookbooks too. I always am checking those out at goodwill when I go there.

 

[vacerator]

I'll check them out!

But, I wasn't aware that church lady Dana Carvey could cook---chuckle.

 

[mixguy]

Lots of Cookbooks here too!

Learned to cook using Better Homes & Gardens and Good Housekeeping's Cookbooks. She got them from collecting S & H green stamps! The National supermarket and the local ESSO gas station provided green stamps. Mom liked using many recipes from the Maytag Dutch Oven Cookbook--loved most of the recipes! She also had a Watkins Cookbook she received as a high school graduation present. The year I was born, dad gave mom a white Hamilton Beach model H Food Mixer! That mixer still works today! My sister and I made just about every recipe in the booklet! Sears once featured a special edition of a Betty Crocker Cookbook for $2.97 that was my first cook in moving out on my own! The microwave oven was a new kitchen tool at that time and were big & expensive! Most of my cookbooks are from garage sales, re-sale shops, library discards and flea markets. Cake Bible recipes have never disappointed anyone that samples! I get asked to bring dessert often at family gatherings. Local recipe books I use are "Talk About Good!" Volumes I & II, and "River Road" Recipes I,II and III and the C'est Bon cookbook from the Vermilion Home Demonstration Clubs.

 

[mixrman]

My first cookbook, and still my favorite out of a huge collection, is my mother's old
Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook, copyright 1950. According to the inscription, mom got it as some sort of prize in Home Economics at Neville Island School, Neville Island, PA (class of 1955). There is pretty much nothing that you cannot find in this wonderful book!