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Posted: 12/26/2016 2:45:00 AM EDT
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Just used my Grandmothers Betty Crocker for Christmas dinner using her recipes she had written in the margins.
My kids will get that cookbook. |
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Posted: 12/26/2016 3:27:24 AM EDT
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you never know when you're going to want to look something up. plus, like above, maybe your granny left some page notes in one or two that'll help you recreate something really special for you and yours.
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Posted: 12/26/2016 5:12:48 AM EDT
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My favorite cookbook is a "The American Woman's Cook Book" from 1939. Every recipe is scratch, including a section on wild game. It's more thick than a brick, and a must have for the serious family meal maker. |
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Posted: 12/26/2016 5:07:16 PM EDT
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Id probably toss them but I would be hard since you know where they came from. My favorite foods from my grandmothers wasn't made by a cook book recipe. I am lucky enough to have taken the time to get advice and practice making them as my grandmothers are still around.
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Posted: 12/26/2016 11:50:42 PM EDT
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I would keep those for your kids, if you have any.
If you don't, at least take them somewhere or offer them to facebook friends or something. If I saw that, i would jump at the chance to have those, as OLD cookbooks are the best cookbooks in a survival situation, and I collect those. There are a lot of folks who would like those, though they may not be your immediate neighbors. You could put them on your local craigslist for a dollar rather than throw them out. At least make an effort to find them a home, since there are collectors (and cooks like me) out there. 
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Posted: 12/31/2016 12:54:33 AM EDT
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Check E-bay before you toss them. Some of those books are very collectible and worth a fair amount of money to some.
There are some very simple, very good recipes in there. |
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Posted: 12/31/2016 1:20:43 AM EDT
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Check E-bay before you toss them. Some of those books are very collectible and worth a fair amount of money to some. There are some very simple, very good recipes in there. This. Even a Friends of the Library donation is better than just throwing them away. Lots of folks who would buy those, and the money would go to the library. 
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Posted: 12/31/2016 1:40:03 PM EDT
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I have old ones from family that I keep. Mostly for sedimental reasons, but do use them every so often.
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Posted: 1/1/2017 2:27:45 AM EDT
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One of my favorite cook books was first published in '67
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Posted: 1/1/2017 2:32:11 AM EDT
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before you toss 'em, give 'em to the DAV/Salvation Army/Goodwill, etc..
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Posted: 1/6/2017 3:23:13 PM EDT
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The wife and I just gave the local library about 30 cookbooks.
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Posted: 1/14/2017 11:51:26 PM EDT
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Flip through the indexes before tossing them. Might find something that becomes a favorite dish.
Old cookbooks can have some interesting recipes. Especially ones from the 20s through 1940s. Many recipes were quite thoughtful of then common, but now long forgotten ingredients as folks had to make do with what they had from their own gardens, livestock, hunting & fishing. |
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Posted: 1/16/2017 8:34:26 PM EDT
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I just don't get people who throw books away. That's what bookshelves are for.
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Posted: 1/17/2017 1:24:49 AM EDT
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I just don't get people who throw books away. That's what bookshelves are for. this. I keep old cookbooks around. and for me it's a big part of the creative process to take a dish that people may not have ever seen or not seen in a long time and recreate it in a modern context. |
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Posted: 1/24/2017 12:37:49 AM EDT
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I would check for Grandma's writing in the margins, and keep the one she wrote in the most. If anything else looks promising, copy it to your computer. And then definitely check e-bay as someone else suggested. If you can't sell them, give them to somebody. If she didn't write in any of them, and none of them look promising to you, there's not much point in keeping them around. I had the same issue with my Nana's cookbooks after she died. I kept the one from her church that she wrote in a lot. Yes, you could keep it on a bookshelf, but eventually your bookshelves will be full. I think most grandmas would like their cookbooks to be owned by somebody who will use them a lot. In the end, they're her books, they're not her.
IMHO the absolute best cookbook ever (sorry Nana) is the Joy of Cooking. It has a lot of those old recipes using things that people have forgotten about, along with a lot of new things people would enjoy. There's also a little something from almost every culture in addition to a lot of American/European food. I think the best part is at the beginning of most topics (game/stuffing/broccoli) she has an amazing amount of general information about what is going on. |
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Posted: 1/26/2017 9:21:37 PM EDT
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I use my Mothers First edition, third printing Betty Crocker Picture Book from 1950 for a lot of recipes.
She would put in changes to ingredients and some of her hand written notes and recipes in it. Keep the books. |
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Posted: 1/27/2017 12:28:10 AM EDT
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First, let me say that I got rid of 60 or 70 cookbooks last summer. There is only so much room on anybody's shelves and I was not using all of those.
However.. As an aside about cookbooks like this,I tend to keep either specialty cookbooks, or old cookbooks. One of the reasons I love old cookbooks is not just for the recipes, but for the information they contain that you can't get in "new" cookbooks today. Stuff like this--two pages from my 1965 Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook.... 
As far as I've seen, you won't find stuff as politically incorrect as this in modern cookbooks. I once went looking for when cookbooks stopped putting the "whole animal and how it's cut up" in the cookbook. I think it was in the early 1970s, though that likely varied with the publisher. It's kind of like the Foxfire books. If you want to know how to survive...if you need to know how to make a corn husk trough to filter lye for soap....you've gotta have somebody who knows to show you, or some kind of reference book to explain it. I went looking for a cookbook with instructions on "How to cut up a frying chicken" once. Nada. Old cookbooks were the only ones with such information. And my mom. I ended up having her come to my house for several sessions of "cut up the chicken and fry it" using her method. People buy chickens already cut up now. If you need to cut up a chicken into the correct pieces to put a nice fried chicken dinner on the table, where you gonna learn? Not from any modern cookbook, that's for certain. How to render the fat from a hog you've slaughtered? Yep, that's in old cookbooks. |
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Posted: 1/27/2017 1:54:23 AM EDT
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I would say toss, but I'm still paying for a macrame book I tossed 40 years ago.
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