[Sca-cooks] First cookbooks.... at home when young

[Johnna Holloway]

We ended up with all the various Betty Crocker cookbooks
because we saved Betty Crocker points and cashed them in for
free or reduced price things. I have my mother's original Betty Crocker
Cookbook in the ring binder from 1950. It has all the family notes
and annotations. (My sister and brother got reprints.) We owned the 
Cookie Cookbook
and Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls, etc. I was given
my own Betty Crocker while still in grade school. Then I quickly moved onto
and was given as a gift the first volume of Mastering the Art of French 
Cookery.
I can remember doing a lot of things out of product booklets and 
clipping recipes
from magazines and newspapers too. You know those things we used to do 
before
Epicurious came along or the recipe database at the Food Network.

Johnnae

Sue Clemenger wrote:

>1.  What was the first cookbook you ever owned, all by yourself? 
>2.  What was the first cookbook you remember cooking from? 
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