[Sca-cooks] First cookbooks....

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> This was my first cookbook:
> 
> Crocker, Betty. 
> Cook book for boys and girls. 

I had the 1970s one; my uncle gave it to me when I was about 7 (they
lived in the other apt. in our house) and started helping me learn to
cook by myself, to comfort me when my brothers were born (yes, I was a
spoilt brat whose system was shocked by no longer being an only
child...)

By the time I was 9, I started checking kids cookbooks out of the 
library and had mastered some basic cooking. When I was about 13, I took 
over doing most of the cooking for our family because my father was in 
and out of the hospital and my mom worked late.

Most of my early cooking was out of my mom's 1960s vintage Fannie
Farmer, and I asked for a copy of Fanny Farmer when I went out on my
own; I was devastated to learn how many of the useful recipes and
information had been eliminated in the late 1980s/early 1990s edition-- 
meat cut information, and information on roasting meats in particular.

My first period cookbook would have been Pleyn Delit, and I cooked only 
one recipe from it-- Armored Turnips. Then I ended up getting Redon et. 
al, The Medieval Kitchen, and I was happy.

-- 
-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"History doesn't always repeat itself. Sometimes it screams
'Why don't you ever listen to me?' and lets fly with a club."