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Bluewrenn
True Blue Farmgirl
1122 Posts
Erin
Texas
USA
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 Posted - Jul 26 2006 : 09:52:40 AM
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Hi all! I know that many of you also collect cookbooks and so this request may be a hard one to have filled, but I am looking for cookbooks by either the Culinary Institute of America (Circa 1950s and earlier) or any similar old books from pre-1960s, preferably the 40s or 30s.
In particular, I am looking for HOME EC books - ones that teach you how to do stuff in the kitchen, like grinding flour, making butter and cheese, how to cook almost any kind of vegetable, etc... I had a great cookbook done by one of the Home Economic Teachers groups that had the best vegetable recipes - everything under the sun, but it is old and has lost many of its pages.
I'm trying to replace it with something similar as I am planning to plant heirloom veggies in my gardens and will need lots of different ways to cook them!
In trade, I have quite a few knit hats and scarves to offer... Please check this link for pics or to get ideas of the work I do...
http://lucyandmoose.etsy.com
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santa_gertrudis_gal
True Blue Farmgirl
198 Posts
Kim
Groesbeck
Texas
USA
198 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2006 : 11:15:59 AM
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A very hard quest I'm sure. We all love our cookbooks. There is a post on favorite cookbooks in the Kitchen Forum. It's currently on page 4 of the forum. Mine are listed there. There are a host of great older ones listed. I've started purchasing some of the cookbooks I don't have that are listed on the thread. Eventually I will have all of the ones listed. I bought my 1950 Culinary Arts Institute Cookbook for $16.49 on eBay including shipping costs. I have most of my grandmother's cookbooks and that was probably close to 200. I picked them up from my mother's about three months ago. Currently stored in our shop, which is horrible on them with the humidity. I don't even know what all of them are. We are in the process of working on the downstairs bath this week and then the floors downstairs are going from carpet to tile. Then the books can be moved in the house. If I wind up with duplicates I will let you know. Don't forget to check out Amazon, too. I've purchased a couple of cookbooks recently there also. Mainly to give as gifts to horse friends.
Aunt Jenny's suggestion of Cooking from Quilt Country was purchased, again from eBay. It is an unbelievable cookbook as everyone in the above thread has mentioned.
Then I always suggest the newer cookbook....
Too Many Tomatoes, Squash, Beans and Other Good Things, a cookbook for when your garden explodes by Lois M. Landau and Laura G. Meyers. This cookbook has more veggie receipes then you can even imagine. Also there is another cookbook listed for veggies in another thread on the Kitchen Forum, just can't remember which thread.
I have my grandmother's Fannie Farmer, printed late 50's which along with my Joy of Cooking is used all of the time. Before I received Fannie Farmer my grandmother gave me the following cookbook: The Orginial Boston Cooking School Cook Book 1896 by Fannie Merritt Farmer. At the bottom of the cover is, A facsimile of the first edition of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
Good luck!
Kim
Heaven is a day at the ranch with my Santa Gertrudis! |
Edited by - santa_gertrudis_gal on Jul 27 2006 06:13:01 AM |
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Bluewrenn
True Blue Farmgirl
1122 Posts
Erin
Texas
USA
1122 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2006 : 4:59:34 PM
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Thanks, I'll make a list and add my favorites to that thread. Here in Dallas, we have a ton of Half Price Bookstores where you can find all kinds of used cookbooks. I find a lot of mine there.
Or I get them from my bookclub.
One of my favorite "newer" cookbooks is by Joe Famularo, entitled "Good & Garlicky, Thick & Hearty, Soul-Satisfying More-Than-Minestrone Italian Soup Cookbook". It has the absolutely BEST soups ever in it.
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LJRphoto
True Blue Farmgirl
760 Posts
Laura
Hickory Corners
MI
USA
760 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2006 : 5:16:05 PM
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I don't collect old cookbooks, but I did come across this wonderful project being done by Michigan State University's library called "Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project." I could spend hours going through it.
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." -E. B. White
http://www.betweenthecities.com/blog/ljr/
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mellaisbella
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
melanie
living on Anne of Green
Gables land
Canada
1862 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2006 : 08:45:02 AM
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Hi Bluewren
Well m'dear I'm sure I have old cookbooks (from 50's, 40's) but none from the cullinary institute. I will get the titles of the ones I have and let you know. Cheers Mella
"I wanna touch the earth, I want to break it in my hands, I want to grow something wild and unruly" |
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Bluewrenn
True Blue Farmgirl
1122 Posts
Erin
Texas
USA
1122 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2006 : 10:10:26 PM
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Thanks for the link Laura - very cool! But for me, there is something about old cookbooks - maybe the feel or the smell of them - that just appeals to me.
Thanks Mella - I just love old cookbooks, esp. those with handwritten notes inside them!
My Homesteading Journal
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My craft journal
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Edited by - Bluewrenn on Aug 03 2006 10:13:13 PM |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2006 : 05:37:28 AM
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i collect cooksbooks too .. new and olde .. my favorite place to find the older ones is antiques shoppes and flea market and 'peddlar's malls' .. i do the same with gardening books. i also love the little cook BOOKLETS of yesterday. have hundreds of them. because i have so many, sometimes i go through them and put them up for 'adoption' through my Treasure Seekers list. haven't put any up for awhile now ... hmmmm .. need to make time to do that soon! xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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mellaisbella
True Blue Farmgirl
1862 Posts
melanie
living on Anne of Green
Gables land
Canada
1862 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2006 : 08:21:52 AM
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HI There Bluewrenn, I have a few cook books here, you might be interested in.. (I know I have more oldies...not quite sure where they are?) one is soft cover 50pgs, with quite a few pics "cooking with condensed soups" put out by the Campbell soup company in 1950... another Campbell soup book, soft cover 48 pages (from the 50's also) "Easy ways to good meals" and the other one is hard cover 320 pages, called "Searchlight recipe book" 1940 this one has tons of recipes, from appetizers to preserving to main meals......anyhoo, if you are interested let me know and I will try to locate the others... cheers, Mella
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Horseyrider
True Blue Farmgirl
1045 Posts
Mary Ann
Illinois
1045 Posts |
Posted - Aug 04 2006 : 09:02:00 AM
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Gosh, I have that exact cookbook, but I couldn't bear to part with it. My mother got it as a young bride and cooked out of it for many years. Then when I got married she gave it to me. I love it; it has her handwritten notes next to many of the recipes.
When my daughter started a family of her own, I couldn't bear to part with my book, but I did find her a copy just like it at an antique store. I don't know how much she uses it, but I use mine to this day. It has the BEST recipe for pecan pie in the world in it! And I love the old illustrations.
Often I think of mom as a young bride, struggling to do well in the domestic arts, wary of her highly critical mother-in-law who had a degree in Home Economics. I wish she'd had it easier. |
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