How many cookbook phases have you lived through? / myLot

Centralia, Washington

August 24, 2016 9:35pm CST

If you paw through enough thrift shops you will most likely find yesteryear cookbooks. Long since dead and buried crockpot cookbooks, the art of the hamburger casserole, hippie cookbooks- my favorite. (Carla Emory is the queen of them all and Rodale a serious contender.) I have a little cookbook that is a family heirloom- not my family but a castoff from an unknown bunch of people. I got to know their grandmas and grandpas and uncles through their ethnic recipes. Kind of fun though I feel like I am peeking into somebody's dresser drawers. Do you have any cookbooks devoted to zucchini or how to make gluten or cheese? Tell all!

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Sharon

@simone10 (54189)

• Louisville, Kentucky

25 Aug 16

I think we have a couple of crockpot cookbooks. We still use them from time to time.

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Sharon

@simone10 (54189)

• Louisville, Kentucky

26 Aug 16

@sallypup Lol...absolutely! I do make a decent pot of chili but my brother's is a lot better.

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (58197)

• Centralia, Washington

26 Aug 16

@simone10 How is his different than yours?

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (58197)

• Centralia, Washington

25 Aug 16

@simone10 You'll be the one to lead the pack in the great chili cookoff.

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Jekca

@Jessicalynnt (50525)

• Centralia, Missouri

25 Aug 16

I got rid of all but the one my parents church made years ago (love some of the recipes in that one) and one old betty crocker

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (58197)

• Centralia, Washington

25 Aug 16

@Jessicalynnt I have a Betty. I wish I could have gotten hold of the 50s Betty that I grew up with. I do have my Grandma's rolling pin.

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Jekca

@Jessicalynnt (50525)

• Centralia, Missouri

26 Aug 16

@sallypup one of these days they will reprint old versions

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M. K. Albus

@MKAlubs (455)

• United States

27 Aug 16

I have a Czechoslovakian cookbook in mint condition from the 1960s, back when Czechoslovakia was still a country. Aside from being a unique find, I think the main reason I have that cookbook is because my mother was born in Czechoslovakia. It sits on my shelf of cookbooks as a tribute to her. I looked through the cookbook once and realized that my mother's recipes actually differed significantly from the recipes in the book. I've never tried cooking anything from the recipes in the book but I like having the cookbook on my shelf.

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Lenore Plassman

@sallypup (58197)

• Centralia, Washington

27 Aug 16

@MKAlubs That cookbook intrigues me. Lovely all the way around.

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