[Sca-cooks] First cookbooks....Original BHG Cookbook

[Johnna Holloway]

It's out in a reprint. Powells has it.
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book 1953 Facsimile Edition
by Bh&g An exact reprint of the 1953 red plaid cookbook featuring 
appetizers, candy, canning, jiffy cooking, pies, vegetables, and more. 
</s?author=Bh&g><>Original, vintage illustrations, more than 50 color 
photos of finished foods, more than 250 black-and-white how-to and food 
identification photos, all reprinted with a gently aged, nostalgic patina.
19 chapters filled with hearty, beloved '50s favorite recipes such as 
mouthwatering Buttermilk Biscuits, Raised Doughnuts, and Feather Sponge 
Cake.

http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0696222124
(It also turns up in used copies but it's very hard to measure how 
"used" those
copies are without seeing them.)

It won't be "mom's" but it will have those recipes.

Johnnae

Sue Clemenger wrote:

>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>
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