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[Zsazsa]

@CrazyKittyLvr2  Your question is a timely one for me... I downsized and decided to donate my cookbooks several years ago ... all but the cookbook from our family Church which contains recipes from my Mom and many of her friends from the Ladies Guild. And I still kept a Little Red Ridinghood cookie jar that holds my Grandma's favorite recipes. Also a recipe box that contained recipe cards in my Mom and my Aunt's handwriting. I kept all of these for sentimental reasons... any time I need a recipe, I look it up online or go to my Pinterest.

Just last weekend I was at the estate sale my BIL held prior to moving from the house he and my sister had shared. I noticed a cookbook by Sandra Lee ... she is the queen of 'semi-homemade'... which I always mistakenly call 'half baked' 🙄 ... I took it home and actually made a recipe from it that was very good... so I hopped on EBay and bought a few more in the series for a few dollars each ... and here we go again!🙄

[Abderian]

I only have 1 physical cookbook since most of my cookbooks are on my phone.

[qualitygal]

Funny you should ask.  Yesterday, ordered 5 new ones. 

Fall sets my "baking genes"  into revving up mode.

[AnikaBrodie]

I was a long-time cookbook collector and at one point had at least 75 to 80 cookbooks in my collection.  When we moved a year ago I donated a lot of them and still have maybe 35 to 40 favorites which I still use frequently.  I kept a lot of church  cookbooks that include favorite family recipes.  I also use Internet recipes on occasion; most of those recipes are tweaked to my liking.

I still have my original Betty Crocker cookbook and still use it.  Its pages have become rather dog-eared over the years.    It's now a collector's item but I'd never part with it.

 

[Toots711]

@CrazyKittyLvr2 

Thank you for answering my question about Dinah Shore!

I have been on a search for a couple of years.
Have searched at estate sales, antique stores, etc. to no avail.
Again, many thanks for replying!

[wagirl]

I HAD over 50 but last year donated probably at least half of them. Kept a few but think I still need to pair it down. 

[RetRN]

Only a few, but I love checking out cookbooks at the library.

[CrazyKittyLvr2]

It's funny but I vaguely remember 1 cookbook in the house when I was growing up.

My maternal grandparents lived with us. Both Gram and my Mom were both great cooks. No recipes per se, just a pinch, a tad etc.  Nothing was written down.

My son especially loves my sloppy joes. I don't use a recipe. I will have to make some and actually measure things so I can write is down for him. He is a pretty good cook himself.

When he was married he tried to get his then, 8 yr. old step-daughter, to try a sloppy joe. When she said no he said. "it's one of Grandma Jane's specialities."  It made me chuckle.  That was a good 17 years ago.

[jeanlake]

@Snowpuppy I also have a Betty Crocker , red and white cookbook with my mother's notes written beside recipes. Also a handwritten receipe stuffed into the page for Buttermilk Pie.  My daughter asked for it and I told her when she's a bit more settled I'd be happy to give it to her. She's a flight attendant and doesn't have her own place yet. 

[jeanlake]

Speaking of cookbooks and memories -- I have a cookbook where the ladies at church contributed. It was a fund raiser. I was in my mid twenties. There were many meetings about pulling this cookbook together and the older ladies fussed and carried on if someone submitted a recipe similar to their's. Pastor's wife had to step in and threaten to shut down the project. I have fond memories of some of those ladies, but it was a Saturday Night Live skit waiting to happen.