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I want a cookbook thread.

I rarely ever cook form a cookbook for dinner, but I love to read them and have them on hand.  And I love having them around for desserts.

My favorites are. . .

Pie it Forward (A pie cookbook, obviously.  Full of fun recipes, we usually only really use the crust recipes, but there are a bunch I am dying to try.)

The Animal Farm Buttermilk Cookbook. (Everything is foolproof, everything is amazing. I've given like eight of these away as gifts.  My personal favorites are the orange and beet soup and the chocolate sheet cake.)

Vintage Pies (Worth buying just for the anecdotes, but the Shaker Lemon pie recipe is great.)

The Better Homes and Gardens Old Fashioned Baking.  (The best angel food cake recipe, no contest. Also good for breads, and cream puffs.)

The Cake Bible (The title says it all. A must if you ever want to make a wedding cake.)

Tartine (THE LEMON BARS.  And the Chiffon cakes!  And the maple kumquat pie!!! Aaaaaagh!)

And, of course, Better Crocker and Joy of Cooking.

Share your favorites!



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I just bought The Pioneer Woman Cookbook and I'm really disappointed. It's got so many pictures and illustrations. But very few actual recipes. I guess I thought it would be more actual cooking.

I also love my Betty Crocker and Joy of Cooking. I have an online subscription to Better Homes and Garden and like it too.

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I used to get the Martha Stewart mini food magazine and it was a great resource.

Now I have an Italian cookbook that I love and a cookbook from a church in my hometown. All the little old ladies put the recipie that they are famous for in one book. They sell it to raise money for charity. It sells out every year - people from all over town order it.

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I got a southern cooking cookbook for Christmas 2 years ago. I don't use them much either but I really like this one. It has a chapter titled funeral food. Cracks me up.

I use cookbooks for ideas but seldom follow a recipe.

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I wish I had some classic cookbooks.

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My favorite cook book I received from my grandmother. Published in 1938. A community cookbook. No reprints available. It is tattered and torn and much loved. Most of my canning recipes are in that book.
Betty Crocker cook book, 1974 edition is my next favorite. It is also tattered and torn. I desperately need a new one, but from year, has my favorite brownies and cake recipes in it.
My Crockpot cook book is also a must have here.
Great thread idea, Dona.

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What is your crock pot cookbook? I would love to have one. I have never found really good crock pot recipes. Mine are all through trial and error.

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

What is your crock pot cookbook? I would love to have one. I have never found really good crock pot recipes. Mine are all through trial and error.

1001 Slow Cooker Recipes. Published by Cookbook Resources, LLC Highland Village, Texas. 



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I will have to look into that. I do a lot of crock pot stuff. I'd like to do more.

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

I just bought The Pioneer Woman Cookbook and I'm really disappointed. It's got so many pictures and illustrations. But very few actual recipes. I guess I thought it would be more actual cooking.

I also love my Betty Crocker and Joy of Cooking. I have an online subscription to Better Homes and Garden and like it too.

What a bummer! But good to know. I like her recipes online, they are always yummy.



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My late mother's 1938 Good Housekeeping Cookbook - excellent reference material, and a lot of "why"s. Sadly, it grew legs and walked off 7 years ago, and I haven't been able to find another copy. The BEST BBQ sauce recipe.



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Anything by Mark Bitmann is amazing.

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I was disappointed NAOW. There's only a few recipes and very few I think I'll actually try. The book is filled with pictures of her family and farm and all kinds of stories of what it's like farming. The photography is stunning. I do have to admit that. But I wasn't out to purchase a book on photography. I wanted a cookbook.

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

I was disappointed NAOW. There's only a few recipes and very few I think I'll actually try. The book is filled with pictures of her family and farm and all kinds of stories of what it's like farming. The photography is stunning. I do have to admit that. But I wasn't out to purchase a book on photography. I wanted a cookbook.

 I would have wanted recipes too, NJN. 

 

Really, I use my computer as my cook book the most now. 



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Me too. That's where a lot of my recipes come from now. And if I like them I bookmark them.

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I have a few cook books from way back. I mean from the 40s and 50s. I love those. They are so interesting. Everything is so detailed and the instructions are amazing. The hints and techniques are incredible too. Just something really different with them.

I have a few of the newer ones but I don't really think about buying them cause there are so many recipes online.

I think the difference between the older books and the newer ones is it seems the new ones are more about assembly. The older ones were more about creation.

I have been wanting to make a family cook book for a long time. Maybe that is something I need to start working on.

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I have a shyt ton of cookbooks I inherited from both my grandmothers. The best are the ones from churches where local ladies submit their family recipes. I also have Better Homes & Gardens and Betty Crocker. I have a southern or homestyle type cookbook that has a few of my favorite recipes. I also have a recipe box that has most of my favorites that I either cut off of packages or printed from the internet. All that & I rarely cook.

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I love cookbooks. Great thread idea! My neighbor seached yard sales for an old Joy of Cooking as a gift to me. He likes the older version better.

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Mellow Momma wrote:

I used to get the Martha Stewart mini food magazine and it was a great resource.

Now I have an Italian cookbook that I love and a cookbook from a church in my hometown. All the little old ladies put the recipie that they are famous for in one book. They sell it to raise money for charity. It sells out every year - people from all over town order it.

I posted before reading the thread.  I totally agree on the church cookbooks!



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Barefoot Contessa has good cook books.

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The Complete American Test Kitchen cookbooks. Really got them as gifts, but I like them because they also include evaluations of kitchen equipment and stuff. I mostly surf the internet for recipes now. Doesn't take up storage space and I can find many variations on the same recipe.

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I have a few but none inspire me to try anything. I do like the campell's recipe book but I think I gave it to DD when she moved out.

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I had so many cookbooks, and usually only made a few recipes in each on a regular basis. So I pruned them down, copied the ones I use onto my online recipe box on Epicurious.
I keep some of my sentimental favorites (they are the ones with the stains all over the pages), but mostly pull up the online stuff on my Kindle Fire and prop it up in the kitchen.

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TrudyML wrote:

Barefoot Contessa has good cook books.

I just hate her guts because of her two time refusal to participate in one kid's Make a Wish. 

Alton Brown has awesome cookbooks. 



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Ooooh I love a good church cookbook.

My pet peeve is cookbooks that call for mixes. Um, if I wanted to use a mix, I wouldn't have bought a cookbook!
Do people really need to be told that they can mix pineapple and coconut in whipped cream and call a cake Hawaiian? They needed a recipe for that?

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I do. I don't bake.

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I do. I don't bake.

 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh but it is so easy! 

And mixes are full of icky things!

And they are so expensive for what you actually get!

And baking is really easy!



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It never tastes right. Cooking I can do very well. People love my food. Baking is left to Betty and Mrs. Smith.

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I like the MasterChef cookbooks. I have Whitney's and Christine's. I need to get Luca's and the MasterChef cookbook.

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msrock wrote:
TrudyML wrote:

Barefoot Contessa has good cook books.

I just hate her guts because of her two time refusal to participate in one kid's Make a Wish. 

Alton Brown has awesome cookbooks. 

 What?  What is that story!  Dying to hear it!



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TrudyML wrote:
msrock wrote:
TrudyML wrote:

Barefoot Contessa has good cook books.

I just hate her guts because of her two time refusal to participate in one kid's Make a Wish. 

Alton Brown has awesome cookbooks. 

 What?  What is that story!  Dying to hear it!

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/barefoot-contessa-turns-make-kid/story?id=13238578

eta:  I may have been a little harsh with the "hate her guts" comment but at the time it made me so mad. furious lol!

 

 



-- Edited by msrock on Thursday 23rd of October 2014 10:12:33 AM

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msrock wrote:
TrudyML wrote:
msrock wrote:
TrudyML wrote:

Barefoot Contessa has good cook books.

I just hate her guts because of her two time refusal to participate in one kid's Make a Wish. 

Alton Brown has awesome cookbooks. 

 What?  What is that story!  Dying to hear it!

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/barefoot-contessa-turns-make-kid/story?id=13238578

eta:  I may have been a little harsh with the "hate her guts" comment but at the time it made me so mad. furious lol!

 

 



-- Edited by msrock on Thursday 23rd of October 2014 10:12:33 AM

 Yea, I think the Make A Wish charity is one you should make time for. 



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Wow. Thanks for the link!

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The bell telephone company nationwide retirees put out a cookbook called The Pioneers. It's like a church cook book. Delicious!

When I want to be fancy, I like Juilia Child's, The Way to Cook.

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My mother has an old home ec teachers cookbook. I want to steal it. It is huge. And really good stuff.

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