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Your First Cook Book?

Posted: Jan 31, 2010

1) Do you still have it?
2) Are the pages yellowed and stained like mine?
3) What's the name of it?
4) Do you still use it most of the time?
5) Have you added more to your collection over the years?

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My mom gave me my first cookbook on my - wedding day

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wedding day.

1) Do you still have it?
I passed it onto my DD on her wedding day.

2) Are the pages yellowed and stained like mine?
Not only are they stained and yellowed, I have notes written in the margin, flour sticking to the pages, and my old favorites written in the back note pages.

3) What's the name of it?
The Family Cookbook (I think)

4) Do you still use it most of the time?
Nope. My DD does use it, though.

5) Have you added more to your collection over the years?
I have an obscene amount of cookbooks. I love them, I'm addicted, and I'm always looking for another.

My first is "Better Homes" - I still have it. (era 1977)

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I learned to cook from Alpiner's "Betty Crocker" cookbook, era 1950's. She found a copy at a garage sale and brought it to me on a visit. I use that one the most! Yes, flour stuck between the pages! LOL!

Fanny Farmer is another favorite.

I really can't remember. - cooking from scratch

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I can, however, remember when I first started learning to cook. We lived with my Italian grandmother. I have a very clear recollection of her lifting me up to stand on a chair so I could watch her make pasta at the kitchen table. She showed me how to make the well in the middle of the flour, break in the eggs, and let me try to mix it in. I also had a little bit of the dough to work with myself and we put it through the machine and cooked it together. She even cooked mine separately so that I could eat it myself. I remember my cousins and family cheering "Brava!" when I twirled it on my fork. I was about 3 and still sat in a high chair to eat, because I couldn't reach the table when I sat in a chair. I'm nearly 50, so I've been cooking for a long time. I have a collection of cookbooks and recipes written down on cards, but I go to them for ideas but usually stray from the exact recipes in some way. I've started to measure things out and write things down for my sons, who are pretty decent cooks but not as creative or comfortable as I am when it comes to just winging it. When they move out, hopefully, the hand-written recipes I give them will be their first cookbooks.

My 1st cook book is very old and I still use it, - yes

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it is yellow and faded and I glued the pages with Tixo, several times.
I wrote in it little hints and reminders!

I have almost 20 cook books and I am a very good cook, international cuisine, and I love to cook!

Cookbook - Ellie

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1. Absolutely, bought it in 1973.
2. Yellowed and stained, falling apart into two pieces.
3. The Doubleday Cookbook
4. Absolutely, at least twice a weej
5. I do not have many cook books, I learned to cook from my mother, a southern belle, and my grandma, who was a chef (German) but I use it when I want something different. I read in a cook book somewhere that many years ago women would write their recipes on the back of receipts and that is how we got the word. I do not know if that is true, but it is a nice way to look at it.

Cockroaches could have a smorgasboard on mine. - love to cook

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Fanny Farmer, University Women's cookbooks, and Betty Crocker. Never added more, I just write new recipes on the borders of the pages.

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