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I was asked a funny question ...

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I was telling my father in law about getting my latest cookbook in the mail and he comes up with the suggestion that once I have made all of the recipes in any of the books I sell them :eek: :rolleyes:
I gasped ...he was speaking about my children lol.
I told him no way in heck would I sell my books!

Do you have any cookbooks you have actually tried all of the recipes from?
I sure dont.
 
Ha! I'm w/ you, janie. In fact, honestly? I have MANY cookbooks that I have never cooked ANYTHING from- though they are still books I enjoy and value. I often have the ability to "taste" foods without actually eating them. Often simply from reading the recipes in books I can get a keen sense of their outcome- so they satisfy that way. Plus, let's face it- some cookbooks, it's the stories and pictures we like most! :)
 
I inherrited some cook books from my mother-in-law.

Some of them were printed when food was still on the ration back early 1950s.

I'll have to dig them out of the spare room and put a few on here. I also have recipes from a Pears Cyclopaedia dated 1901. It also tells you how to employ servants and what types won't steal the family silver.:D:D Reading this gives me the hysterics.:D
 
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I've got it upstairs on the shelves. I'll see if I can get at it tomorrow and put a few 'Pears' tips on, should raise a few eyebrows and get a few giggles.:D
 
Keziah thay would be neat if you could share some of those tips from "Pears" with us!

Kevin I like you enjoy a cookbook as a novel, and I will never tire of looking at it! I like you can almost taste the food as I read about it. Hey at least that way I won't gain too many Lbs! Although I have heard the saying "I can gain weight just by smelling food!" I wonder if that works by looking at it in pictures too........hee-hee.
 
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I actually tossed and/or gave away every single cookbook I had in the house, which included 40+ years of same inherited from my parents, when I finally realized I would never do any of the fancy recipes and especially not the ones for 6-8 people. I'm 65 and on my own. At most I would cook for 2.

I also went through the boxes and boxes of recipe cards, clippings and notes, and tossed everything that fit that same pattern. I did save 3 special family recipes from my grandmother, framed them and put them on the wall to be remembered that way.

The 'keeper' recipes went into my MasterCook program (after deleting all their similar fancy recipe collections made for 6-8 people). I then designed a custom printed (half) page so that recipes would go in to a half-size 3-ring notebook. I've now got 13 specialized recipe notebooks that I "use" and the feeling is great and I add and delete pages on a regular basis.
 
Wow what a terrific idea CanMan! I do not think I could do that quite yet, but one day. I like the whole idea of personalizing it to suit your own tastes and needs. I even like how you framed the recipes of your grandmothers. I do not have anything like that, but what I do have is an old Book of Ration Stamps, and my grandfather had to sign his name for it, so I have his signature, I am thinking how neat it would be to frame that! Thanks for the very nifty ideas:)
 
CanMan, I love the idea of commeorating your Grandma's important recipes by framing them and turning them into a work of art to hang in your kitchen!

My place is filled w/ books of all kinds. My l'il sister has instructions to pick the ones she might wish to keep- then get the rest of'em to our small town high school library if anything should ever happen to me.
 
I have three large plastic boxes full of books in storage. Most are paperbacks.
Here in the apartment I have about 100 cookbooks plus 20 or so paperback books.
I have that Mastercook program but never loaded it when I got my new computer finished. I'll have to dig out the cd.
Jon gets his books on tape. Talking books put me to sleep lol.
 
janie- I love listening to audiobooks when going on lonnnng drives! In Alaska I often drove through Denali National Park from Anchorage to Fairbanks which is about an 8 hour trip. Several audiobooks often made the drive nice- especially on foggy or cloudy days when "The Mountain" and other mountains weren't out and the secenery was hidden. (BTW- "The Mountain" is Alaska lingo for Denali- or Mt. McKinley- the tallest peak in all of North America)
 
I found another book, it must be mid to late 19th century but the two front leaves are missing.

It is called Every House Keepers Book.

How to preserve fresh beef.

Beef and mutton have bee preserved in a sound state through a whole voyage to the West Indies, by the folllowing method. When the meat is cold, it is cut up into quarters and sprinkled with these ingredents: lignum vitae, in chips, one pound; common salt and course sugar, each four ounces; sal prunella , half an ounce. when well covered, close the whole in sheet lead, and lay in a chest, and full it up with sawdust. When. When taken out to be dressed, it must be carefully cleaned and roasted immediatley.

Using this method I bet they didn't make it back from the West Indies eating this meat:eek:
 
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janie- I love listening to audiobooks when going on lonnnng drives! In Alaska I often drove through Denali National Park from Anchorage to Fairbanks which is about an 8 hour trip. Several audiobooks often made the drive nice- especially on foggy or cloudy days when "The Mountain" and other mountains weren't out and the secenery was hidden. (BTW- "The Mountain" is Alaska lingo for Denali- or Mt. McKinley- the tallest peak in all of North America)
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My brother loves to listen to them while driving like you.
 
lol, that's funny, just tell him now you have to live long enough to use all your Cook-Books!!! I did get rid of some cook-books last year. I just wasn't that into them so I donated them and I love having more space! Cookie :)
 
The Duties of the Cook

She should be clean in her dress, temperate in her habits, and frugal of those thing which she is intrusted. As so much depends upon her skin and arrangement, she never ought to allow any person to intermeddle with her proper business, in matters that reqiure much experience and close attentiorn for it is the fool alone that will have to bear the blame of whatever is ill dressed; and the plea that the fault owing to the ignorance or carelessness of others will be considered and perhaps justley as an aggravation of the offence The kitchen is the province of the cook and there-fore it mus be looked after with constant watchfulness, to see that nothing is wanting or out of order, and that all the dressers and utensils are kept clean, and in good condition by the scullery maid or whoever has the more menial offices to perform.

So there we are then. Now I know how to act in the kitchen.
According to Alexander Murry MD.

I don't know where my scullery maid is, must have left her on the bus:D
 
How about this for a a recipe:confused:

In a family nothing should be lost, and instead of giving broken meat to wandering mendicants, who frequently when out of sight, thow it to the dogs, it would be better to make the same into comfortable messes for the poor housekeepers. The remnats of boiled meat, with bones, rice, barley grits, oatmeal and vegetables, stewed for sometime, will afford an effectual support to many distressed persons, who are burdened with children. Fish bones, with the heads and fins, the rind of bacon and a variety of articles which are thrown out of the kitchen of the affluent, would yeild nutirious food to the labouring sick poor.

It makes me wonder how people could think like this.

By the way the basic weekly wage for a man in the early 1900 was 16/9.
16 shillings and 9d which is $1.34 cents. and this book cost half a crown = 2/6 about 13 cents, which would have been a fair wack out of a mans pay.
 
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Keziah that recipe for the poor distressed person with many a child sounds a whole lot like the homemade dog food I used to fix my NOT SO POOR DOG!:D
 
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lol, that's funny, just tell him now you have to live long enough to use all your Cook-Books!!! I did get rid of some cook-books last year. I just wasn't that into them so I donated them and I love having more space! Cookie :)
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I told him now my goal is to cook so much he looks like Santa by December ;)
About 6 weeks ago I started doing Sunday supper for the three of us. I cook it here and take it to his house to eat. I always make alot so that he has leftovers for the next day.
 
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