Mystie
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Post by Mystie on Aug 2, 2017 21:33:03 GMT
This was the question at another site I read today and the discussion was so interesting I thought I'd ask it here.
I would grab the cookbook my church put out in the mid-1970s. I stole my mom's tattered copy a few years ago (it's okay, she has my grandma's tattered copy!) She cooked lots of good things out of that book, and it's got a lot of memories in it.
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ellen
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Post by ellen on Aug 2, 2017 21:38:34 GMT
My hometown church cookbook from the 80s. I use it all the time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2017 21:41:04 GMT
My phone
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zookeeper
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Post by zookeeper on Aug 2, 2017 21:45:07 GMT
I have a family cook book of my Grannie's recipes and it is interspersed with anecdotes and stories from her children and grandchildren. It is priceless to me. You can tell that we were poor folk because the first three recipes are rabbit, squirrel and coon. Also has recipes for her banana cream pie, chocolate gravy, buttermilk biscuits, bread pudding, fried okra....and the list of southern food just goes on and on!
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Post by elaine on Aug 2, 2017 21:46:49 GMT
My iPad. All our family recipes are now in Paprika. I only buy cookbooks in the Kindle edition.
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Post by Merge on Aug 2, 2017 21:49:39 GMT
Can it be a box? The box of recipes written out in my mom's handwriting. Everything else I use is online.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Aug 2, 2017 21:52:09 GMT
I would take the cookbook my mom scrapbook for me with our family recipes.
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Post by polz on Aug 2, 2017 21:54:45 GMT
I recently finished a project. My daughter is moving to the US for her senior year of highschool and I'm sending her host mama a copy of a cookbook that came out in 1908 in New Zealand. Every household had one. It's is currently up to edition 69 from 2016. My copy is from 1992. I asked friends and family to share stories and photos of things they cooked and popped them in the appropriate page. Some people sent pics of tatty old cookbooks with their grandmothers (or great grandmothers) handwriting and notes in the margins. It's reminded me to take pics of important pages so at least I'd have a digital copy. So in answer to your question, I have too many cookbooks to save them all, but I will photograph the important pages of all of them.
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Post by CarefreeSadie on Aug 2, 2017 21:56:17 GMT
My hometown church cookbook from the 80s. I use it all the time. This, all the other recipes are online with onenote but I would miss seeing all the people's names who were the adults when I grew up and are no longer here in that book.
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Post by amblet on Aug 2, 2017 21:58:03 GMT
My 1967 Joy of cooking and Sunday's at Moosewood.
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Post by hop2 on Aug 2, 2017 22:01:51 GMT
The one with the emergency cash in it
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Post by tracyarts on Aug 2, 2017 22:02:07 GMT
The binder with all my favorite recipes in it.
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Post by hop2 on Aug 2, 2017 22:02:20 GMT
Can it be a box? The box of recipes written out in my mom's handwriting. Everything else I use is online. that too
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Aug 2, 2017 22:02:32 GMT
My binder that I made of all the recipes I actually use. I put it together about 15 years ago to take on a move where we suitcased in. Ever since I have added any new recipes that I try and the family likes.
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Post by ntsf on Aug 2, 2017 22:09:10 GMT
my box of family receipes... my joy of cooking or my mon's ratty betty crocker picture cookbook
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Aug 2, 2017 22:09:22 GMT
Just one?!? In the few moments I've been considering this question, I've changed my mind multiple times. There are too many that are indispensable to me. I write in all my cookbooks -- notes about alterations to recipes and sometimes when it was served ("Thanksgiving 1999," "C's 16th birthday," etc). It's like looking back at diaries in a way! And then there are the cookbooks passed down from my grandmother, my mother, my aunt, his grandmother... almost all of those have their writing in them. Never mind. I guess the house burned down around me. I'm still here trying to pick just one.
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Post by papersilly on Aug 2, 2017 22:15:32 GMT
not a cookbook but a metal recipe box with stuff i've cut or written out over the years.
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Post by scrappyyo on Aug 2, 2017 22:28:57 GMT
I have a notebook full of my favorite recipes, with more pages of recipes stuffed in the back cover, it's over 26 years old, I keep meaning to get a bigger notebook and rewrite but I like the idea of taking photos of the pages
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Post by leannec on Aug 2, 2017 22:40:57 GMT
I have a very nice cookbook collection because I love to just read them and look at the pictures but I'll admit that I rarely cook from any of them I cook dinner for my family about six nights per week ... My "burning kitchen" resource would be my laptop that sits on my kitchen table because when I need to use a recipe I get it from the internet ... especially Pinterest
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Kerri W
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Jun 25, 2014 20:31:44 GMT
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Post by Kerri W on Aug 2, 2017 22:41:44 GMT
Most of my favorite recipes are in digital form of some sort but I do have a hospital auxiliary cookbook that one of DH's aunts gave me for a wedding shower gift that I LOVE. It has lots of regional recipes from where DH grew up and many just plain good old recipes that have been handed down for generations.
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Post by mlynn on Aug 2, 2017 23:16:33 GMT
I would take my recipe book - the one that I write recipes in. After that would be the Betty Crocker Cookbook that I received as a shower gift. I wasn't too thrilled when I received it, but it is my kitchen Bible. It has a lot of basics in it like making whipped cream and hard boiled eggs. I have never seen another one with that stuff. Any other cookbooks I can replace.
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Post by burningfeather on Aug 2, 2017 23:19:01 GMT
Truthfully none and it would be a relief because the decision to ditch them would be taken out of my hands. But I probably would save the 1936 Watkins cookbook that was my grandmas and that has a copy of a grocery store order in it (for the record - beans, bread, rolls, and lard for a total of $1.14)
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Post by leannec on Aug 2, 2017 23:30:14 GMT
ETA: I do have an autographed Eric Ripert cookbook that I might grab as well ... he's so dreamy
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Post by gramasue on Aug 3, 2017 0:21:19 GMT
My ancient Better Homes and Gardens cookbook with the red plaid cover that my Dad gave me over 50 years ago. It's held together with a big thick elastic band. The cover has come off and many of the pages are falling out, and there are spots from cooking all over many of the pages, but it is priceless to me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2017 0:50:51 GMT
My family cookbook, a collection of my moms best recipes my DH and I made for my siblings
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2017 0:52:48 GMT
Can I grab three? They are all small and are located on the same shelf together.
The first is one I chose on vacation in Taos New Mexico when I was about 13. It is a little paperback volume of "authentic Mexican" recipes. Back in the early 1970s Mexican food was not a widely popular option. We had met sopapillas for the first time and I wanted to make some when we got home. I found the little recipe book in a gift shop and bought it as my souvenir from the trip.
The second is a well used community fundraiser (raised money for a new fire truck in town) It was given to me as a wedding gift. I love the names of the people I knew growing up and the reminders of the typical fare I ate as a kid.
The third is an Italian cookbook I bought while living in Italy. It isn't americanized Italian food but from the kitchens of Italian housewives.
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Post by jackietex on Aug 3, 2017 0:56:29 GMT
I have one of my mom's that is a collection of recipes from the area in Italy that she was from. It is written in Italian, which I don't read or speak, and has notes and post-its that she wrote in it.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 3, 2017 0:57:13 GMT
The binder with all my favorite recipes in it.
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Post by lisae on Aug 3, 2017 1:39:31 GMT
I would also get my 1977 (I think) church cookbook that is very tattered. It's my copy and was my first cookbook. I have most of my recipes in a single book but they are typed up and that document is backed up so it could be recreated but you can't recreate the tattered, stained cookbook you learned from.
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Post by mom on Aug 3, 2017 2:06:59 GMT
My mom made all of us kids a cookbook with all of her recipes that we grew up with. I would for sure grab it. She finished and gave us the cookbook ten days before we found out she was dying. If she had waited to make us the cookbook there is no way she could have finished it before she passed away 4 months later.
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