I used to have a bookshelf full of cookbooks. Granted, I used to cook a lot more than I do now, but mostly I just liked reading those cookbooks and imagining how the recipes would taste if I were motivated to actually cook. IF. When we downsized (several times) most of our cookbooks were donated to the local library for their book sales, but a few traveled with us. When I pulled the faithful few off the shelf this afternoon, I realize they look a little worse for wear. It seems obvious why these came with us: they had been used the most.
That recipe box with the recipes on index cards sounds like a true treasure! I feel like you about OUR STATE magazine's recipes. So many look so delicious.
I have always loved food as well as cookbooks. So many great recipes. I had an aunt who was a professional cook and she must have had 300 cookbooks which she read like I ready mysteries. Oh the food she could cook. I want to cull our collection of recipes but it just never seems to happen and we keep stuffing more and more recipes into our bulging 3 ring binder.
Greta article. I have very few and those I keep for sentimental reasons. I have a box of cards, too. Many of the recipes are handwritten by Wally. He cooked Mexican food quite well and I will never get rid of those.
At the library donation center we get boxes and boxes of cook books. Let me tell you cookbooks are quite heavy and come in all sizes.
Love your cookbook tour. Unfortunately I have not yet downsized so I have a lot. My first ever, the Fanny Farmer cookbook I bought when I lived in Boston. My mother had many good qualities but cooking not among them. And she hated it. I was determined to learn. A gift of Craig Claibornes NYTimes cookbook came next. Cold Broccoli soup, quiche Loraine. I still use it. Notice how small the plates and portions were! Then there's 20 years of Gourmet magazines that I can't part with. Still mad they discontinued it. My method is to Google a familiar Gourmet recipe I want, then head to the archives for it.
I love this blog, Jeanne. All your blogs bring back memories. I too gave away a lot of recipe books when downsizing, but kept a few too. I have a box with recipes on index cards, many from friends, my mother and a few from my grandmother. I can't cull them even though I don't make many of them anymore. Now I see all the delicious recipes from Our State magazine that make my mouth water but I haven't tried them either. Your butterscotch brownies sound like my Blond Brownies except my recipe calls for chocolate chips. I'll share it with you.
Having Wally's handwritten cards is really a treasure worth keeping. Glad you enjoyed the post.
That recipe box with the recipes on index cards sounds like a true treasure! I feel like you about OUR STATE magazine's recipes. So many look so delicious.
I have always loved food as well as cookbooks. So many great recipes. I had an aunt who was a professional cook and she must have had 300 cookbooks which she read like I ready mysteries. Oh the food she could cook. I want to cull our collection of recipes but it just never seems to happen and we keep stuffing more and more recipes into our bulging 3 ring binder.
Greta article. I have very few and those I keep for sentimental reasons. I have a box of cards, too. Many of the recipes are handwritten by Wally. He cooked Mexican food quite well and I will never get rid of those.
At the library donation center we get boxes and boxes of cook books. Let me tell you cookbooks are quite heavy and come in all sizes.
Love your cookbook tour. Unfortunately I have not yet downsized so I have a lot. My first ever, the Fanny Farmer cookbook I bought when I lived in Boston. My mother had many good qualities but cooking not among them. And she hated it. I was determined to learn. A gift of Craig Claibornes NYTimes cookbook came next. Cold Broccoli soup, quiche Loraine. I still use it. Notice how small the plates and portions were! Then there's 20 years of Gourmet magazines that I can't part with. Still mad they discontinued it. My method is to Google a familiar Gourmet recipe I want, then head to the archives for it.
I love this blog, Jeanne. All your blogs bring back memories. I too gave away a lot of recipe books when downsizing, but kept a few too. I have a box with recipes on index cards, many from friends, my mother and a few from my grandmother. I can't cull them even though I don't make many of them anymore. Now I see all the delicious recipes from Our State magazine that make my mouth water but I haven't tried them either. Your butterscotch brownies sound like my Blond Brownies except my recipe calls for chocolate chips. I'll share it with you.