[Sca-cooks] First cookbooks....

[SilverR0se at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/17/2006 10:09:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
mooncat at in-tch.com writes:


> 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?

I had the Peanuts Cookbook, too, but it is long gone. I still remember making 
"Charlie Brown's Mother's Buttered Potatoes". Yum! But before that I had 
gotten a cooking set  as a gift and had made miniature pancakes, pies and cakes 
from it.

The BH&G cookbook is the ONLY mundane cook I have and use.

Eleanor Fettiplace's Recipe Book was/is my first exposure to historical 
cooking. I had a whole tourney field (it seemed) puckering up after trying my first 
attempt at her marinated mushrooms.

Renata