Kitchen

[Nightowlz]

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@ECBG wrote:

Do you still have it?

I do, and still it's always been my reference book!

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LOL!!! Love it. Yes I still have mine. Got it when I got married 40 yrs ago next month.

[elfiecat]

I started with the Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook, a wonderful way to start learning how to cook. It has all the basics adn I still use it, yes. Great classic recipes. My mom had an earlier version of it too when she was starting out as a new cook in the 50s.

[beach-mom]

There were three that were important to me, and I still have them all! One, French Cooking, was a Christmas gift from my grandmother when I was 14, took French for the first time,  and decided I loved anything French! I read that book over and over, and I still use it! The second was a padded cover Betty Crocker edition that was a gift from my "Secret Santa" during a holiday gift exchange. I was shocked when I found out who my Secret Santa was, someone I really didn't know a whole lot. He selected a gift that was way above the price limit we set, but I have a feeling his wife helped him!

The one I practically slept with was Cooking for Two, by Better Homes and Gardens. I think I made everything in it! 

[FastDogWalker2]

Betty Crocker and Better Homes and Gardens.  I still have both but don't use them often. I  have been married 36 years.

[italia8140]

Didn't need one. I had recipes from my mom and my grandmother who were EXCELLENT cooks.

[shoekitty]

My mother never taught me to cook.  But I would just follow recipes on the back of boxes.  I would do a lasagne from the back of a noodle box, tuna cassarole from a bag of egg noodles, haha...hey it was the 60's.  The first real cookbook I latched on to was a Campbell's soup cookbook.Liver and onions with bacon and a can of tomato soup?  Yum yum...(gagging, but again it was the 60's).  Then my mother in law gave me recipes.  Then I started to tweak recipes I made from a recipe and changed them to suit me. Then took some classes.  Most of all some older ladies helped me who were very wonderful cooks.  I learned so much from this Mexican lady down the street.  She had me making tortillas from scratch, with no measuring, just going by feel of dough and looks.  Same with recipes for Mole, arroz con pollo, enchiladas.  By the end of a year I was wrapping tamales with the best of them!  They called me Huera!  hahahah  Then another Asian friend's Mother taught me  Chinese and Korean cooking.  Best cookbook I ever had! \

I collected cook books for years.  I must have a hundred..I started giving them to young women learning to cook, and some that are foodies.  They LOVE them!

 I was a very good cook for years, until I just got sick of the mess.  Plus we eat a more plant based diet and no meat,.  I hate the mess from cooking.

[Ceci]

Joy of Cooking. It was a wedding gift and I used it for 40 years until it fell apart. Tried to buy a new one and they did not have the old one I had.

[CatsyCline]

Betty Crocker Cookbook . it was one of the 1970s editions

my favorites were Hamburger Soup, Cornish Pasties and Anadama Bread (****** it Anna! Bake me some bread!)

i think i made every bread recipe in that book!

and as a kid,  i gave my mother this paperback vesrion of "I Hate to Cookbook", she was so insulted!  (no sense of humor) she handed it back to me.

later i resurrected it from storage and still use it sometimes!  

the recipe for Eiffle Trifle is great way to prepare leftover roast beef!