[Sca-cooks] First cookbooks....
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 18 03:56:43 PDT 2006
This was my first cookbook:
Crocker, Betty.
Cook book for boys and girls.
1st ed.
New York, Simon and Schuster, c1957.
Mom gave it to me for Christmas when I was 6. She and I made a couple of
recipes out of it, but I don't remember doing more than a couple.
When I was 9, my mother went into the hospital for a week to have her
gall bladder removed. She had premade some casseroles for Dad to heat
up while she was gone, but I quickly became the designated heater. I
didn't like the choice she had made for one Sunday, so I got out her
yellow Good Housekeeping Cookbook and made a casserole all on my own,
without my dad even knowing I had done so. It worked out well and became
a family favorite for several years. So the Good Housekeeping Cookbook
would be the first adult cookbook that I used without supervision.
The first "period" cookbook that I ever owned would, unfortunately, be
"Fabulous Feasts", followed quickly by "Sallets, Humbles and Shrewbery
Cakes". I believe I was then given a very badly xeroxed copy of one
of the first few editions of Duke Cariadoc's collection, which exposed
me to real historical recipes and I got better and my addiction to collecting
historical cookbooks grew from that. I got that xerox from a boyfriend in
1976 also, but I can't remember which edition it would have been then.
Huette
--- Sue Clemenger <mooncat at in-tch.com> wrote:
> For some reason, Christianna's post today about the little girl's cookbook
> had me remembering my first cookbook, which led me to wonder about the rest
> of you....
> 1. What was the first cookbook you ever owned, all by yourself? For me,
> that would have to be a little "Peanuts" cookbook that I got at age 9, with
> Lucy and Linus and their recipes....(Snoopy, too). I've still got it
> somewhere....
> 2. What was the first cookbook you remember cooking from? I was making
> things from recipes when I was about 7--the first cookbook I remember using
> was my mom's old Better Homes and Gardens one, with the red-and-white
> checked cover, in a sort of ring-binder format. I'd sure love to have a
> copy of that old edition again....<g>
> 3. What was the first period cookbook/food text you ever owned? In this
> case, mine was a photocopy of Sass' _King's Taste_ and _Queen's Taste_.
> What about the rest of you?
> --Maire, throwing out a few topics for discussion....
Remember that while money talks, chocolate sings.
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