FOOD Basic from scratch CookBook - 1950 Betty Crocker - good for us NewBees!

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Millwright said:
Pirates Pantry was compiled by the Junior League of Lake Charles, La. in 1976.

A collection of family recipes from the area.

Most of the classic Cajun dishes are represented.

I have an original and still reference it.


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My mom has\had that one :D
 
Seeker22

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Mama's Betty Crocker cookbook had a red cover. The first thing I ever baked on my own as a little kid was out of that book. Blondies. Basically, a Brownie without the chocolate. I love the things! So many memories of me and Mom are built around that book.

Daddy built a little stool I stood on so I could just barely reach the counter. I was so proud that I could get up there because Mom was so tall. She scared the crap out of me because of that but when we were cooking, she was just Mom.

I still have her mixing bowls and spoons. Those things are from her mom. There is something about putting a meal on the table or a desert from things that were an everyday tool for your Grandmother. I like the old stuff, but the Connection makes it even sweeter.

I don't have kids, so when I croak, people will come in here and sort through all this stuff and not have a clue and care even less what it meant to me and why? Something ineffably sad about that, but it is what it is. Three generations of Texas women that didn't take crap offa nobody but were solid and stronghearted and kind. And boy howdy, could we cook?!
 
Red Baron

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My recommendation if I had to have just one cookbook.

It has everything you need in a sturdy 3 ring binder. Try and get the older editions if you can.

I have the 1976 edition in a kitchen cabinet along with about 20 other cookbooks.

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JasmineAndLace said:
I have my mother's Betty Crocker Cookbook (original) as well as mine from when I got married in the early 60's. Both are tattered and torn and stained from a lot of usage but the information contained inside and the memories all those stains evoke are priceless. I have accumulated a lot of cookbooks over the years and still go back to the old Betty Crocker ones.
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Same here. I have moms and mine, too.
Actuality, I probably own 100 cookbooks other too, but always go back to the BC.
Mainly, because they make me feel good using them.
I miss my mom, so bad.
 
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CarolynA said:
Another cook book I like is the Boston Cooking School, Fanny Farmer cookbook from the 1890s. If you use old fashioned ingredients or wild game it's a must have.
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I have this too, but careful studies show that sometimes things were a bit strange, like a British recipe (I forget which one, I think for scones) where they didn't bother to take it out of British measurements and replace them with American ones.

My Mother had an original version, complete with all the advertising for various "modern" cooking equipment from companies that helped sponsor the publication of the book, some of those (and their prices) were a lot of fun to look at when I was a kid and later as an adult.

I only noticed the British recipe issue when copying some of them down to take back to Ireland with me. But again, back in the day, a lot of people who could cook - either the literate housewife or her "cook" depending on social-economic status probably knew about both sets of measurements.

For most things, I used the 1990s version of the same book which was updated by a wonderful lady and I think I have all her cookbooks, I heard her interviewed on NPR just after we moved to Ireland after she published her "last" cookbook - she was 90 something at the time.
 
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Melodi said:
I have this too, but careful studies show that sometimes things were a bit strange, like a British recipe (I forget which one, I think for scones) where they didn't bother to take it out of British measurements and replace them with American ones.

My Mother had an original version, complete with all the advertising for various "modern" cooking equipment from companies that helped sponsor the publication of the book, some of those (and their prices) were a lot of fun to look at when I was a kid and later as an adult.

I only noticed the British recipe issue when copying some of them down to take back to Ireland with me. But again, back in the day, a lot of people who could cook - either the literate housewife or her "cook" depending on social-economic status probably knew about both sets of measurements.

For most things, I used the 1990s version of the same book which was updated by a wonderful lady and I think I have all her cookbooks, I heard her interviewed on NPR just after we moved to Ireland after she published her "last" cookbook - she was 90 something at the time.
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When old books such as this ask for a handfull of something- beware: A woman's hand in those days was about the size of a ten year old child's of today. I actually learned that little factoid on TB2K. And in the Civil War, recipes were called receipts. How times change.

This is a favorite from my dad:

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Hermantribe

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thompson said:
For years and years, a gift of a Betty Crocker or Better Homes and Gardens cookbook was a standard shower gift that was received by many soon-to-be brides, and a very welcome one, too. Over the years I've seen these older ones at estate sales and I'll thumb through them, see all of the splatters on various well-worn pages, and smile.

I have a TON of cookbooks. Of all the ones I have, if I was forced to cull only a few, that one would be the very last to go.



I sure do agree with you. The BH&G was another basic, textbook cookbook, until it wasn't.
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Yep. I'm a big fan of both the magazine and their cookbooks and the America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Country cookbooks, both of which are a part of Cook's. I love how they get into the science of cooking, the "why" of things.
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I have an older edition of the red & white cookbook with my dad's handwriting in it (he passed a few months ago). I treasure that book, and wonder why in the world he wanted to make donuts!
 
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I have my Mom's Good Housekeeping Cookbook, 1942 edition. It does indeed tell you things you won't get in modern cookbooks. I also have the Betty Crocker 1967 (?) Cookbook with the three rings. And my mother's three ring notebook chock full of recipes she saved. I still make a lime, celery, pineapple, miracle whip, and olives jello salad to go with ham and I have never found that recipe anywhere else. It's a family tradition. My kids inherit the cookbooks.
 
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Hermantribe said:
I have an older edition of the red & white cookbook with my dad's handwriting in it (he passed a few months ago). I treasure that book, and wonder why in the world he wanted to make donuts!
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Because it's likely there were no donut shops nearby... we're only 2 generations past a time where, unless you lived in a bigger city, your options for anything beyond basics were "do it yourself or do without"! Sounds like you're dad was craving doughnuts!

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Hermantribe said:
I have an older edition of the red & white cookbook with my dad's handwriting in it (he passed a few months ago). I treasure that book, and wonder why in the world he wanted to make donuts!
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Fresh homemade donuts are amazingly better than what you get anywhere else. My mom made the buttermilk variety..I haven't looked for that recipe in years, but I know it's handwritten on a 3x5 card...and stashed somewhere.
 
Seeker22

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summerthyme said:
Because it's likely there were no donut shops nearby... we're only 2 generations past a time where, unless you lived in a bigger city, your options for anything beyond basics were "do it yourself or do without"! Sounds like you're dad was craving doughnuts!

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Picked up a doughnut cutter at Thrift. DH brought home a cookbook with the doughnut recipe in it. One of these days, I'll get brave. So many things in baking I haven't tried yet, but they are on the list. Chores around this place don't leave much time.
 
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