A couple years ago my youngest daughter gave me a useful little little book used to help remember which cookbook “make-again” recipes are in. I’ve got an abundance of cookbooks so Where In The World Is That Recipe? has been a great time-saving resource for me.
Just a few of the cookbooks in my collection and why I find this little book so handy…
This handy recipe organizer takes up very little space…
and is indexed by category like a cookbook.
A couple weeks back I found another copy and bought it to share with one of the readers of Apron Strings. It saves time thumbing through multiple cookbooks in search of an elusive recipe. If you “collect” cookbooks this giveaway just might be right up your alley.
To get your name in the pot leave a reply to this post telling what your favorite cookbook is. Get an extra chance by sharing a favorite recipe.
You have until I choose a winner by random selection on September 1, 2009 to reply.
Until next time…
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
~ Harriet Van Horne ~
Hi Judy–
Thank you for the nice email. I am doing well…I haven’t been writing in MSTB since the separation so I just decided to pause it for a bit. I will pick it back up soon.
The boys and I are doing well, they are starting school on Wednesday..my big boys…
Thank you again for thinking of me, I think of you everytime I wear my apron!!! (which is often!)
xoxooxoxo
Jen
I have a collection of cookbooks too. Anyway my favorite Cookbook is Betty Crocker from 1978. That cookbook had a chart in the book cover listing herbs and spices and what they go good in. I use that chart in the recipes until I most memory. Many people like my cooking and baking and they ask who taught you to cook or bake like that and I tell them Betty Crocker. Hee hee did you know there was no Betty Crocker. For make up there was a real Mary Kay but there was no real Betty Crocker. I like the Taste of Home Cookbooks too. I do have more cookbooks than I can list here. I love blueberry muffins. When i was a kid my mom would make these and they were soooo good. I know my Mom used her Betty Crocker cookboks but my muffins never tasted as good as my Mom’s. Well I got that old cookbook my Mom used and pages are missing and it’s in poor condition now. However I did get a 1950 Betty Crocker Cookbook and I compare the blueberry muffins recipe from 1950 recipe to 1978 and guess what?1950 had more surgar. No wonder Mom’s tasted better.
One more thing there is one Cookbook I have alway kinda want. I first saw it in 1980 for a lady that had it. It was called Better than Store Bought and had recipes for things you usually bought at the store. Remember Zieback toast. That toast you bought for babies for teething? Well that lady that had that book made her own Zieback toast and gave me some. She also made lots of things.
My favorite cookbook is one that our church put together a few years ago. I love it because the recipes are so personal. I can look at a recipe and think, “Oh, so-and-so always brought that to the potluck dinners.”
My favorite recipe is probably for Blackened Chicken Alfredo. You can find the blackened chicken recipe here http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Blackened-Chicken/Detail.aspx
and the alfredo recipe here
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Famous-Restaurant-Alfredo-Sauce/Detail.aspx
Would love to win this round, I too collect cookbooks and am also in the process of putting together a family cookbook, a real work in process, but a labor of love. Love this idea of a way to catalog favorite recipes in one place. Seems I am always on the hunt for one in particular, especially as the seasons change. My cooking changes with the seasons, I love that too.
My favorite cookbook in my collection is the Household Searchlight Cookbook, 1931, put out by Cappers.
Btw, thanks for the call, I realllllllllllllllllllly enjoyed it (((hugs)))
ly,
me
[...] There is still time to get in on my “Because I have two” giveaway…. [...]
Judy, my favorite is the Betty Crocker cookbook I got for my wedding in 1981. It’s well-used and worn and still comes off the shelf regularly even though I’ve been cooking for almost 40 years.
I’m probably too late – it is early on the first!! My fav is a Mennonite cookbook I got when I moved here. The rest of my recipes are things I cut out and stuff in a drawer!!LOL all other cookbooks are still packed away in a box in the garage somewhere………………………