My cousin and I compiled our family's recipes and published a cookbook. I also love to collect these type of community cook books. I have some from historical societies, church groups, etc. I do love them and they really do show a snapshot of a community in time.
I would have to say that You Tube has almost become the new community cookbook! "Food Wishes ", "Tasty", "Polish Your Kitchen", "Simply Mama Cooks", "Sam the Cooking Guy", ect, ect, etc.... Everyone seems to have a favorite channel that they subscribe to from all over the world! A "Cavalcade of Food " cookbook would be a marvelous idea though!! I think that I would be up for that!! Take care!!
Hi Greg! I guess when you think of it, TH-cam is a like a world community! Technology has brought so many new ways to share recipes, and just about everything else! I still love the experience of holding a book and reading through the recipes. Thanks so much!
Yes. But eventually they run out of recipes, but still keep pumping recipes out, to keep making money. New ideas. overshare just ok stuff, burying the simple good old fashioned recipes. Witn these books you just take your best one or couple your family raves about. The pressure was to impress vs views count.
I just purchased a box of 45 community cookbooks for only $10 at a local auction! How timely is this video! Can’t wait to go through them. I have wonderful memories of Bob Allison’s radio program. My mom listened to him every day. I have a few of his recipes that mom typed up and put in her shoebox of recipes. Also many of his helpful household tips. Those were the days. Love, love, love you and your videos.
Hi Nina! Wow - you got a real bargain with that box of community cookbooks! Enjoy! That will be a lot of fun going through those books - I can only imagine how many great recipes you will come across! I had the pleasure of being on-air with Bob Allison a couple of times. What a great broadcaster - and he always had funny stories to share! Ask Your Neighbor was a great community program. Thanks!
Hi Nathan - I'm glad that my recipes work and I think it's important that each one gets tested. I've even tried recipes out of cookbooks that failed. We need more test kitchens! Thanks!
I am a professional pastry chef and some of my favorite recipes are adaptations from these kinds of cookbooks; been collecting them since I was a child and that's a long long time! Vintage recipe books from Inn's around the country are wonderful to. . The internet does not hold a candle to thumbing through a book full of recipes from mom's, grandmas and aunts! In agreement with Cindy and Greg's comments below; It may be time for a Cavalcade cookbook!
Hi Eric! Great to hear from a professional and how you take inspiration from these community cookbooks! There are so many great ideas and recipes in these pages - sounds like you have a nice collection of them! Thanks so much!
@@cavalcadeoffood I have a very conservative collection of cookbooks having had several "pairing downs" over the years. I have several notebooks filled with recipes from friends, friends mom's, relatives etc. who made something I liked. Got a couple of your recipes in there to! Really, thank you for your youtube channel. All three of you do a great job and I am looking forward to the next stove exchange!
@@cavalcadeoffood I am enjoying your beautiful channel so much. It brings cheer to my soul seeing all the vintage items. God Bless You. Love Tamson from Ky. 😇💗I too read cookbooks and enjoy them very much.
You have such a wonderful way of presenting things, and inspire me to want to dig out some of my old cookbooks. Thank you for preserving all of those old beauties!
I had a cookbook from the Detroit Free Press (due to a fire) gone it would be about 100 years old. Thank you for all the lovely videos. I have 1975 kitchen in The Lone Star State.
My mother still has a community cookbook from her high school and that’s where she got her delicious fried donut 🍩 recipe from! Lol ! Another great video,Kevin & Mary!
Yes, the community cookbook is always a good book! I have a good collection of them myself. They are very interesting to read from cover to cover. Any recipe ever made from one is the best! I like the phrase "the people's cookbook" that's exactly what they are. In print they are for the people and by the people to enjoy always! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Nancy! I've had the same experience as you - recipes from community cook books are always good, and often very simple and straightforward to prepare! I love how people share their special recipes with others, all for a good cause! Thanks!
I have one called Taste of the Town put out by our local Charity League in 1969. It was very popular here. I had to re-bind it. Those GBC comb binding machines are wonderful if you can find one. I also collect old advertising cookbooks and that would be another great topic. Let me know when you do that Food Friends cookbook. You need to include the stories behind the recipes too. Also in NC we had Betty Feezor on WBTV for 25 years. Her yellow cake recipe is fantastic. Thanks for showing us all the cookbooks.
Hi Jonathan! The Taste of the Town cookbook sounds great - so much good cooking history in NC. Yes, I'll do a video on advertising/manufacturer cook books in the future - another great source for good recipes. I have the Betty Feezor cook book - haven't tried her yellow cake recipe but have made her tomato sauce for spaghetti and it was wonderful! Thanks!
I love this peek at your cookbook collection! There's a community cookbook from where I grew up called the Pine Grove Mennonite Church Cookbook that is LEGENDARY. There have been 14 printings since 1977! I reviewed a cookbook on my channel that consists of a compilation of meat recipes submitted by women's club leaders from all over Ohio. These are just so much fun, and like you said, you KNOW the recipes are likely to be winners.
Hi Cooking the Books! Sounds like that local community cook book is a winner with 14 printings! I can imagine it is full of great recipes. I have a couple of Mennonite community cook books and they are packed with delicious sounding dishes. Thanks so much!
When I lived in Detroit, I lived near the Sunbeam plant. Oh my the smells daily were heavenly. Loved the video on the Community Cook Books, they are my favorite cookbooks that I have.
I love the idea of a Cavalcade Cookbook! I'm still working up the... basic videography skills to start my own channel, and so it's going to be a while before Kestrel gets going, but I'd love to submit something!
Hi Kestrel! Can't wait until you get your channel started - exciting!! The cook book project is something for down the road, but would love to get a recipe from you! Thanks!
It is more fun to follow a recipe out of a cookbook. People shared their special recipes that they were proud of. Plus the "New" recipes often take shortcuts.
I love old cookbooks. Where I live in the Missouri Ozarks is a cookbook called Sassafras!… I swear every household in this area has one or a relative that has one.. it’s recipes that we all grew up with around here and the most famous is Springfield style Cashew chicken which was invented here. It’s becoming quite a rare book to find here cause no one let’s go of theirs!
Hi Kevin - I'll bet people won't part with their copy of Sassafras! I love the name and while I've never had Springfield style Cashew Chicken, something tells me I would love it! Do they serve it in the restaurants there? Sounds wonderful!
@@cavalcadeoffood oh definitely! It's a staple in every Chinese restaurant here. Mr Leong who invented it in his restaurant here just passed a year or so ago at almost 100!
Yes, these are legacies. We did one of these in 4th grade? (mine was Polish Holiday Bread - a babka I imagine, I can't recall) Man, I would so love to see some of those Polish recipes. I have one of these from Tarentum Presbyterian church, Allegheny County, PA, (1989). given to an old roommate from her grandmother. She left it when she moved out and I kept it.
Hi Tom! What a great project for the 4th grade class! Some of the cookbooks from the old Polish parishes have all kinds of recipes, sometimes multiple versions of the same dish. It's interesting how families often had their own recipe for something, like stuffed cabbage, that was unique. I'm sure there are some great recipes in the book from Allegheny County! Thanks!
When you mentioned the Polish League of American Veterans Ladies Auxiliary, it was like a bell going off. My husband's grandmother was very active in PLAV. I'm going to start checking collections for the cookbooks and see if I can find family recipes. Thanks for the lead.
I recently went down to John R King used bookstore in Detroit and cleaned up on old community cookbooks. They have tons!! I am trying to get an older book (pre 90’s) from each state in the country
Thanks, Katie! John King Books is a great source for cookbooks - and any other kind of books! Glad you found some nice old community cookbooks there! They always have wonderful recipes!
You share such a great perspective about community cookbooks. Very familiar w/the Baton Rouge version. Grew up in Louisiana. Back in Florida after 40+ yrs of exposure to Cajun cooking. Picked up a at local cookbook for Pensacola that had been used a good bit. Great vid. Thx for making it.
I have a newer one that is only about 10 years old or so. It was put together by the wives of the Boston Red Sox players and was sold outside Fenway Park. I even have it autographed by all the Red Sox wives that were there that day. Not that it adds any value but it's nice. My mother, aunt and grandmother contributed to one that was part of a local hospital group. I've found several good recipes in that one. You mentioned call in radio cooking shows. Here in New England for I believe over 30 years we had "The Yankee Kitchen with Gus Saunders" which was syndicated around New England but based at the end by WROL in Boston. I believe that show ended about 1996 or so. Gus Saunders was a culinary critic who wrote a newspaper column reviewing restaurants aside from his duties hosting the radio show. When you said some people don't like to give away their recipes I can understand why some people feel like that but I figure if you give someone a recipe for something, let's say Kevin's Chocolate Cake for instance, and it becomes a tradition with this persons family they will think of you every time it's made and it may just outlive you and help keep your memory alive. We have several favorite recipes that were either made by family members that have passed or family friends that have either passed or moved away and they are thought of warmly every time we make their recipe.
Hi Tallboyyyy - The book done by the Red Sox wives sounds great and nice that you got them to sign your copy! I used to enjoy listening to the radio shows that talked about cooking and recipes. I had not heard of Gus Saunders but it sounds like he had quite a following in New England. I agree, sharing recipes are a great way to live on in memory when others make your dish - it's a nice way to think about it! Thanks!
Is there a site where we can pull all these books together????or Even just for ancestral purposes for the future generations?! I just got a 1966 Mennonite cookbook, I knew some of these ladies when I was little, All have passed away. How cool would it be to find great grandma's Christmas cookie recipe You had 50 years ago? This Mennonite cookbook names the husband's name and the wife...ex Mrs (man's name) her name and surname, So for ancestral purpose is it's very easy to find exactly who this person is from the small town.
Hi - I don't believe there is any such website where these community cookbooks are recorded. It would really be a great resource if there was such a site. Thanks!
You are so right about the wonderful recipes in these cookbooks. I have many that are very old, and some fairly new. I love collecting them. I also read them cover to cover, so fun. Thank for this video, that was fun.
I love the few that I have. I have cookbooks from renowned chefs, but I default to the community cookbooks for a couple reasons. As you mentioned several times; the recipes are sure to be tasty. The other reason is that most of the ingredients are things commonly found in your pantry or easily obtained locally. Before my mom passed I got her to write down some of her recipes. Most of her measurements are in pinches, dabs, bunchs, abouts, to taste, etc. When I'm cooking one of her meals it's like spending time with her again.
Hi Mike! Yes there is something about these community cookbooks that insure the recipes will be fairly straightforward and delicious! You are right about them using common, ordinary ingredients that most folks would have on-hand. Glad you got some of your mom's recipes - enjoy them and they will keep you connected with her! Thanks!
I cooked for about 20 years before I got a real Better Homes cook book. I look at recipes, but quite frankly have rarely followed through on them. I basically use them as a guide and put my own twist (usually a short cut) on them.
Hi Scooter! I think recipes can be a good roadmap for people when making something new, but there's always room to put your own spin on it and make it unique. That's part of the joy of cooking - thanks!
I own the Victory Cookbook published in New Brunswick Canada during the war. The Queen Mom, who was queen at the time contributed a recipe. Grew up cooking from in. In a plastic bag now. Very fragile. I also have the Barbour Spice companies reprint of it. The recipes assume you knew how to cook. I grew up cooking out of it, but young people have a difficult time. They are use to full instruction and moderate oven means nothing to them. There is an online version of the first diabetc cookbook. A young woman wanted to try a recipe, but could not understand it. I gave her the directions.
This was great! Thanks! I love the anecdotal asides you can find in a community cookbook where someone mentions an addition or a tweaked measurement for better results. Our town in Connecticut celebrated the bicentennial right along with USA's bicentennial and the cookbook was fabulous. Being the youngest I had last dibs on mom's copy so I do a search every once in a while to see if I can find it for sale.
Back in the 80s the Extension Service would have a Christmas get together for the women. They'd do a community cookbook. Bittersweet memories. Many of those people have passed now. I don't know about now but back in the stone age, Southern Living magazine would publish contributed recipes then publish an annual recipe book.
Hi Tim - these cook books really record these recipes for future generations. When I look at the old community cook books from the 40's and 50's, I'm sure many of those cooks are no longer with us, but how wonderful that their recipes can live on for others to experience. I've heard about those contributed Southern Living recipes, but have yet to find one of those books. Thanks!
My mom had acquired quite a few of these after her parents passed away but unfortunately gave away most of them. I think I have 1 or 2 left 😔 Also speaking of recipe exchanging, my maternal grandmother was given the recipe for an amazing marinara sauce by her next door neighbor back in the 60's, which I still make to this day
Just found your channel, so I'm catching up. Love the cookbook videos. I collect but mostly find them new homes these days. I've turned a hobby into a small business. How did you obtain so many?
I spend most of my life on the internet; I know I can look up any recipe I need, but I still love my cookbooks. I started out collecting just vintage ones, but I expanded into ones by current chefs I admire. I even have a novelty Southern Living recipe book from the year I was born ('87), and all the recipes in it are terrible! They had a whole section on just cottage cheese recipes! But it's so entertaining to read. When I was in school, I took Baking With Julia with me to read, cover to cover like a novel, in between classes. Online recipes are great, but they can never replace cookbooks.
Hi Kacey! I totally agree with you - it's convenient to Google a recipe and have a bunch come up in an instant, but so many of the great recipes (especially in the vintage cook books) are nowhere to be found online. There is something so wonderful about flipping through the pages of an old cook book and discovering recipes. The Baking with Julia book is a great one - I can see why you read the whole thing! Thanks!!
I had a co-worker who loved to cook for parties and potlucks. She gave up some recipes for our cookbook, but left a thing or two out as a "secret" ingredient. She wanted her own dishes to taste better, always.
Hi BlindMellowNellie - some people are that way for some reason. Whenever I'm asked for a recipe I provide the entire list of ingredients and instructions. It's wonderful to be thanked when they make it and let me know how much they enjoyed it. Thanks!
Why do you need all of these cookbooks? The answer is, “Just because!” I love flipping through hard copy cookbooks. There is no replacement for the feel of flipping those pages. Online just doesn’t cut it! 0) Community cookbooks are some of the best.
Good day Who do you have all your items willed to ?? The Smithsonian should accept your collection. I would HATE. to think your collection would be split up .
I remember growing up and I knew just who's food to eat at church dinners here in Alabama 🥰
Yes a Calvacade cookbook would be Awesome.
Hi Cindy! It sure would be great - especially since we have "food friends" from across the globe!
My cousin and I compiled our family's recipes and published a cookbook. I also love to collect these type of community cook books. I have some from historical societies, church groups, etc. I do love them and they really do show a snapshot of a community in time.
Hi TuckerSP2011 - I'll bet there are a lot of great recipes in that family cookbook! What a nice way to celebrate your family's history - thanks!
I would have to say that You Tube has almost become the new community cookbook!
"Food Wishes ", "Tasty", "Polish Your Kitchen", "Simply Mama Cooks", "Sam the Cooking Guy", ect, ect, etc.... Everyone seems to have a favorite channel that they subscribe to from all over the world!
A "Cavalcade of Food " cookbook would be a marvelous idea though!!
I think that I would be up for that!!
Take care!!
Hi Greg! I guess when you think of it, TH-cam is a like a world community! Technology has brought so many new ways to share recipes, and just about everything else! I still love the experience of holding a book and reading through the recipes. Thanks so much!
Yes. But eventually they run out of recipes, but still keep pumping recipes out, to keep making money. New ideas. overshare just ok stuff, burying the simple good old fashioned recipes. Witn these books you just take your best one or couple your family raves about. The pressure was to impress vs views count.
I just purchased a box of 45 community cookbooks for only $10 at a local auction! How timely is this video! Can’t wait to go through them. I have wonderful memories of Bob Allison’s radio program. My mom listened to him every day. I have a few of his recipes that mom typed up and put in her shoebox of recipes. Also many of his helpful household tips. Those were the days. Love, love, love you and your videos.
Oh, and yes you must publish a cookbook. It will be a huge success!
Hi Nina! Wow - you got a real bargain with that box of community cookbooks! Enjoy! That will be a lot of fun going through those books - I can only imagine how many great recipes you will come across! I had the pleasure of being on-air with Bob Allison a couple of times. What a great broadcaster - and he always had funny stories to share! Ask Your Neighbor was a great community program. Thanks!
I like finding the old recipes they brought over from the old country.
Hi Tom - yes those are some of the best recipes! Thanks!
The problem with giving recipes online is that many don’t work. I’m NOT referring to anything you’ve posted, Kevin! Yours work.
Hi Nathan - I'm glad that my recipes work and I think it's important that each one gets tested. I've even tried recipes out of cookbooks that failed. We need more test kitchens! Thanks!
@@cavalcadeoffood I agree! My current favorite cookbook is the first edition of the Betty Crocker picture book. It is meticulously tested.
Yes, a Cavalcade of Food Cookbook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm Lov'n it!
Hi Silver Bubbles! I think that will be a fun project in the future - I know you all have some great recipes to share! Thanks!
@@cavalcadeoffood I love your Kapusta recipe, make sure that one is in the book! Best Kapusta ever!
Forgot to mention your Lemon cups....Those were great as well !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am a professional pastry chef and some of my favorite recipes are adaptations from these kinds of cookbooks; been collecting them since I was a child and that's a long long time! Vintage recipe books from Inn's around the country are wonderful to. . The internet does not hold a candle to thumbing through a book full of recipes from mom's, grandmas and aunts! In agreement with Cindy and Greg's comments below; It may be time for a Cavalcade cookbook!
Hi Eric! Great to hear from a professional and how you take inspiration from these community cookbooks! There are so many great ideas and recipes in these pages - sounds like you have a nice collection of them! Thanks so much!
@@cavalcadeoffood I have a very conservative collection of cookbooks having had several "pairing downs" over the years. I have several notebooks filled with recipes from friends, friends mom's, relatives etc. who made something I liked. Got a couple of your recipes in there to! Really, thank you for your youtube channel. All three of you do a great job and I am looking forward to the next stove exchange!
MaryAnn and Ralph are the best! They both add tremendous value to the video conversations! Thank you all for such a creative channel!
You're welcome, Mama Louise! We have a lot of fun doing the videos - thanks for joining us!
I am a avid cookbook collector also. I really enjoyed this video. Love Tamson from ky 😇🧡
Hi Tamson! Thanks so much - glad you enjoyed the video and nice to meet another cookbook collector!
@@cavalcadeoffood I am enjoying your beautiful channel so much. It brings cheer to my soul seeing all the vintage items. God Bless You. Love Tamson from Ky. 😇💗I too read cookbooks and enjoy them very much.
I'd kill for that cosmetology cook book!!!!!
That's a fun cookbook! Thanks!
You have such a wonderful way of presenting things, and inspire me to want to dig out some of my old cookbooks. Thank you for preserving all of those old beauties!
Hi Andrew! Hope you get out those old cookbooks and find a few great recipes! Thanks!
So true ☺️☺️☺️ 100
I had a cookbook from the Detroit Free Press (due to a fire) gone it would be about 100 years old. Thank you for all the lovely videos. I have 1975 kitchen in The Lone Star State.
Love your 1975 kitchen! Thanks!
My mother still has a community cookbook from her high school and that’s where she got her delicious fried donut 🍩 recipe from! Lol ! Another great video,Kevin & Mary!
Thanks, Grace Love88! I'll bet those donuts your mom makes are terrific! How nice that she still used her high school book!
Yes, the community cookbook is always a good book! I have a good collection of them myself. They are very interesting to read from cover to cover. Any recipe ever made from one is the best! I like the phrase "the people's cookbook" that's exactly what they are. In print they are for the people and by the people to enjoy always! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Nancy! I've had the same experience as you - recipes from community cook books are always good, and often very simple and straightforward to prepare! I love how people share their special recipes with others, all for a good cause! Thanks!
I have one called Taste of the Town put out by our local Charity League in 1969. It was very popular here. I had to re-bind it. Those GBC comb binding machines are wonderful if you can find one. I also collect old advertising cookbooks and that would be another great topic. Let me know when you do that Food Friends cookbook. You need to include the stories behind the recipes too. Also in NC we had Betty Feezor on WBTV for 25 years. Her yellow cake recipe is fantastic. Thanks for showing us all the cookbooks.
Hi Jonathan! The Taste of the Town cookbook sounds great - so much good cooking history in NC. Yes, I'll do a video on advertising/manufacturer cook books in the future - another great source for good recipes. I have the Betty Feezor cook book - haven't tried her yellow cake recipe but have made her tomato sauce for spaghetti and it was wonderful! Thanks!
I love this peek at your cookbook collection! There's a community cookbook from where I grew up called the Pine Grove Mennonite Church Cookbook that is LEGENDARY. There have been 14 printings since 1977! I reviewed a cookbook on my channel that consists of a compilation of meat recipes submitted by women's club leaders from all over Ohio. These are just so much fun, and like you said, you KNOW the recipes are likely to be winners.
Hi Cooking the Books! Sounds like that local community cook book is a winner with 14 printings! I can imagine it is full of great recipes. I have a couple of Mennonite community cook books and they are packed with delicious sounding dishes. Thanks so much!
When I lived in Detroit, I lived near the Sunbeam plant. Oh my the smells daily were heavenly.
Loved the video on the Community Cook Books, they are my favorite cookbooks that I have.
Hi Ruby! I remember that bread factory - I'll bet it smelled great! Thanks!
I have 2 of my grandma's church cook books and just love them. Really old recipe's. I use them often!
Hi Kathy! Some of those church cookbooks are the best! Thanks for watching!
Makes my heart sing
Your right cookbooks make great Relaxing Reading! & So inspiring for family or entertaining FUN.
Hi Ms Howell! These old cook books really do inspire! Thanks so much!
Love the friends cookbook idea!!!
Thanks, Veronica!
I love this episode! I have a few cook books from the 20's and 30's. They are fascinating to look through. Have a great day! :)
Hi Going Slightly Mad! I'll bet your vintage cook books are fun to read - thanks so much!
This is so true! My mother n law was a part of a cookbook in her Senior building, and it's fantastic!
I'll bet a cookbook done by seniors would have some great recipes!! Thanks!
Great topic/video. I cannot resist community cookbooks (pre microwave era) at yard sales/ thrift stores! Thank you for another great episode! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you! Those community cookbooks have some of the best recipes!
I love the idea of a Cavalcade Cookbook! I'm still working up the... basic videography skills to start my own channel, and so it's going to be a while before Kestrel gets going, but I'd love to submit something!
Hi Kestrel! Can't wait until you get your channel started - exciting!! The cook book project is something for down the road, but would love to get a recipe from you! Thanks!
I enjoyed seeing all those retro community cookbooks. I have a few myself. Take care. 😎
Hi Sharon! Thanks - enjoy your community cook books! These are real treasures!
It is more fun to follow a recipe out of a cookbook. People shared their special recipes that they were proud of. Plus the "New" recipes often take shortcuts.
Hi Cindy! There were a lot of very special recipes shared in these books - and they were time tested! Thanks!
I love old cookbooks. Where I live in the Missouri Ozarks is a cookbook called Sassafras!… I swear every household in this area has one or a relative that has one.. it’s recipes that we all grew up with around here and the most famous is Springfield style Cashew chicken which was invented here. It’s becoming quite a rare book to find here cause no one let’s go of theirs!
Hi Kevin - I'll bet people won't part with their copy of Sassafras! I love the name and while I've never had Springfield style Cashew Chicken, something tells me I would love it! Do they serve it in the restaurants there? Sounds wonderful!
@@cavalcadeoffood oh definitely! It's a staple in every Chinese restaurant here. Mr Leong who invented it in his restaurant here just passed a year or so ago at almost 100!
Yes, these are legacies. We did one of these in 4th grade? (mine was Polish Holiday Bread - a babka I imagine, I can't recall) Man, I would so love to see some of those Polish recipes. I have one of these from Tarentum Presbyterian church, Allegheny County, PA, (1989). given to an old roommate from her grandmother. She left it when she moved out and I kept it.
Hi Tom! What a great project for the 4th grade class! Some of the cookbooks from the old Polish parishes have all kinds of recipes, sometimes multiple versions of the same dish. It's interesting how families often had their own recipe for something, like stuffed cabbage, that was unique. I'm sure there are some great recipes in the book from Allegheny County! Thanks!
Or Yellow page cook book. I love all cookbooks. I also have spiral notebooks I write my favorite recipes in 😃
I love cookbooks. I just got a bunch from my Mother in law, going back to the 50's...
Hi Alison! I'll bet you have some great ones in that batch! Enjoy!
When you mentioned the Polish League of American Veterans Ladies Auxiliary, it was like a bell going off. My husband's grandmother was very active in PLAV. I'm going to start checking collections for the cookbooks and see if I can find family recipes. Thanks for the lead.
You're welcome, metabrown! Hope you find some great recipes in the PLAV cookbooks. There were a number of PLAV posts here in Detroit. Thanks!
My favorite cookbooks are the community ones. They are tried and true and lots of time passed down thru generations
I agree! Thanks, Kim!
I really enjoyed the show today 😃
Hi Beverly - glad you liked the episode! Thanks!
I recently went down to John R King used bookstore in Detroit and cleaned up on old community cookbooks. They have tons!! I am trying to get an older book (pre 90’s) from each state in the country
Thanks, Katie! John King Books is a great source for cookbooks - and any other kind of books! Glad you found some nice old community cookbooks there! They always have wonderful recipes!
I learned how to make my beloved buttermilk pie out of a church community cookbook!
Hi James! I'll bet that is a great pie, and it's just the kind of wonderful home baking that you would find in a community cook book! Thanks!
You share such a great perspective about community cookbooks. Very familiar w/the Baton Rouge version. Grew up in Louisiana. Back in Florida after 40+ yrs of exposure to Cajun cooking. Picked up a at local cookbook for Pensacola that had been used a good bit. Great vid. Thx for making it.
You're welcome, Sallie! So many great recipes in those community cook books!
Love this you know how i love my cookbooks
Hans - yes I know you really enjoy your cookbooks! I still cherish the Betty Feezor book you sent me!
@@cavalcadeoffood Hope we can come up and see you sometime, I really want to see Cavalcade.
@@hanscraig1850 Would be great to see you - we may be heading down to NC one of these days.
@@cavalcadeoffood You come any time you can,
I have a newer one that is only about 10 years old or so. It was put together by the wives of the Boston Red Sox players and was sold outside Fenway Park. I even have it autographed by all the Red Sox wives that were there that day. Not that it adds any value but it's nice.
My mother, aunt and grandmother contributed to one that was part of a local hospital group. I've found several good recipes in that one.
You mentioned call in radio cooking shows. Here in New England for I believe over 30 years we had "The Yankee Kitchen with Gus Saunders" which was syndicated around New England but based at the end by WROL in Boston. I believe that show ended about 1996 or so. Gus Saunders was a culinary critic who wrote a newspaper column reviewing restaurants aside from his duties hosting the radio show.
When you said some people don't like to give away their recipes I can understand why some people feel like that but I figure if you give someone a recipe for something, let's say Kevin's Chocolate Cake for instance, and it becomes a tradition with this persons family they will think of you every time it's made and it may just outlive you and help keep your memory alive. We have several favorite recipes that were either made by family members that have passed or family friends that have either passed or moved away and they are thought of warmly every time we make their recipe.
Hi Tallboyyyy - The book done by the Red Sox wives sounds great and nice that you got them to sign your copy! I used to enjoy listening to the radio shows that talked about cooking and recipes. I had not heard of Gus Saunders but it sounds like he had quite a following in New England. I agree, sharing recipes are a great way to live on in memory when others make your dish - it's a nice way to think about it! Thanks!
Is there a site where we can pull all these books together????or Even just for ancestral purposes for the future generations?! I just got a 1966 Mennonite cookbook, I knew some of these ladies when I was little, All have passed away. How cool would it be to find great grandma's Christmas cookie recipe You had 50 years ago? This Mennonite cookbook names the husband's name and the wife...ex Mrs (man's name) her name and surname, So for ancestral purpose is it's very easy to find exactly who this person is from the small town.
Hi - I don't believe there is any such website where these community cookbooks are recorded. It would really be a great resource if there was such a site. Thanks!
A CCF cookbook would be great!
Hi John! I think it will be a fun project for the future! I know everyone has at least one great recipe to share! Thanks!
You are so right about the wonderful recipes in these cookbooks. I have many that are very old, and some fairly new. I love collecting them. I also read them cover to cover, so fun. Thank for this video, that was fun.
Hi Michele! Glad you liked this episode - I'll bet you have some great community cookbooks! Enjoy!
You are so right about the cook books ☺️
I love the few that I have. I have cookbooks from renowned chefs, but I default to the community cookbooks for a couple reasons. As you mentioned several times; the recipes are sure to be tasty. The other reason is that most of the ingredients are things commonly found in your pantry or easily obtained locally. Before my mom passed I got her to write down some of her recipes. Most of her measurements are in pinches, dabs, bunchs, abouts, to taste, etc. When I'm cooking one of her meals it's like spending time with her again.
Hi Mike! Yes there is something about these community cookbooks that insure the recipes will be fairly straightforward and delicious! You are right about them using common, ordinary ingredients that most folks would have on-hand. Glad you got some of your mom's recipes - enjoy them and they will keep you connected with her! Thanks!
Well done! Super awesome review. Thank you
You're welcome, Lulu! Appreciate you watching!
I need that Saint Latislaus cookbook in my life!
Hi Georgia! Oh, that's one of the great ones -- so many old Polish recipes! Thanks!
I cooked for about 20 years before I got a real Better Homes cook book. I look at recipes, but quite frankly have rarely followed through on them. I basically use them as a guide and put my own twist (usually a short cut) on them.
Hi Scooter! I think recipes can be a good roadmap for people when making something new, but there's always room to put your own spin on it and make it unique. That's part of the joy of cooking - thanks!
I own the Victory Cookbook published in New Brunswick Canada during the war. The Queen Mom, who was queen at the time contributed a recipe. Grew up cooking from in. In a plastic bag now. Very fragile.
I also have the Barbour Spice companies reprint of it.
The recipes assume you knew how to cook. I grew up cooking out of it, but young people have a difficult time. They are use to full instruction and moderate oven means nothing to them.
There is an online version of the first diabetc cookbook. A young woman wanted to try a recipe, but could not understand it. I gave her the directions.
This was great! Thanks! I love the anecdotal asides you can find in a community cookbook where someone mentions an addition or a tweaked measurement for better results. Our town in Connecticut celebrated the bicentennial right along with USA's bicentennial and the cookbook was fabulous. Being the youngest I had last dibs on mom's copy so I do a search every once in a while to see if I can find it for sale.
Hi Robin! I'll bet your town's cookbook was a good one. Hopefully one will show up for sale one of these days! Thanks!
Yay new episode
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Back in the 80s the Extension Service would have a Christmas get together for the women. They'd do a community cookbook. Bittersweet memories. Many of those people have passed now.
I don't know about now but back in the stone age, Southern Living magazine would publish contributed recipes then publish an annual recipe book.
Hi Tim - these cook books really record these recipes for future generations. When I look at the old community cook books from the 40's and 50's, I'm sure many of those cooks are no longer with us, but how wonderful that their recipes can live on for others to experience. I've heard about those contributed Southern Living recipes, but have yet to find one of those books. Thanks!
Stanley county is fairly close to us, Albemerle is in Stanly County, Try the stanly county slaw if its in there If not I will send it to you.
Pretty sure I saw a recipe for the Stanley County slaw in the book. I'll try it out. Thanks, Hans!
My mom had acquired quite a few of these after her parents passed away but unfortunately gave away most of them. I think I have 1 or 2 left
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Also speaking of recipe exchanging, my maternal grandmother was given the recipe for an amazing marinara sauce by her next door neighbor back in the 60's, which I still make to this day
Hi John! Sounds like your marinara sauce is a community recipe! It must be terrific! Thanks!
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I really enjoyed this video by the way and I hope you are all doing well
Definitely one of my favorite channels on TH-cam
Just found your channel, so I'm catching up. Love the cookbook videos. I collect but mostly find them new homes these days. I've turned a hobby into a small business. How did you obtain so many?
Hi MissLaShay - glad you found me! I've been collecting for over 45 years so over time I guess I picked up quite a few! Thanks!
I spend most of my life on the internet; I know I can look up any recipe I need, but I still love my cookbooks. I started out collecting just vintage ones, but I expanded into ones by current chefs I admire. I even have a novelty Southern Living recipe book from the year I was born ('87), and all the recipes in it are terrible! They had a whole section on just cottage cheese recipes! But it's so entertaining to read. When I was in school, I took Baking With Julia with me to read, cover to cover like a novel, in between classes. Online recipes are great, but they can never replace cookbooks.
Hi Kacey! I totally agree with you - it's convenient to Google a recipe and have a bunch come up in an instant, but so many of the great recipes (especially in the vintage cook books) are nowhere to be found online. There is something so wonderful about flipping through the pages of an old cook book and discovering recipes. The Baking with Julia book is a great one - I can see why you read the whole thing! Thanks!!
I had a co-worker who loved to cook for parties and potlucks. She gave up some recipes for our cookbook, but left a thing or two out as a "secret" ingredient. She wanted her own dishes to taste better, always.
Hi BlindMellowNellie - some people are that way for some reason. Whenever I'm asked for a recipe I provide the entire list of ingredients and instructions. It's wonderful to be thanked when they make it and let me know how much they enjoyed it. Thanks!
I could spend a year and would not get through half your collection But what fun it would be
Hi Ed - thanks! It's a lot of fun going through all these cookbooks...I still haven't looked through them all!
Why do you need all of these cookbooks? The answer is, “Just because!” I love flipping through hard copy cookbooks. There is no replacement for the feel of flipping those pages. Online just doesn’t cut it! 0) Community cookbooks are some of the best.
LOL! Right on, Lady Thyme! Just because - that's why!! I agree - I'd rather leaf through a book than stare at a screen any day! Thanks!
Hello guys ❣️
A have a Bell South cook book ☺️
I'll bet there's some great recipes in that book! Thanks, Beverly!
Now days they don't do cookbook sells
I looked buy them from the schools.
I foresee an influx of book donations from all over the country. Better make some space. 😊
Hi Cyril!! LOL - oh no...my shelves are full already! Thanks!
Yes. But you never know what might show up. My partner is working on a cookbook.
Food Friend here Hi
Hi Bucknk8ed RobertLee - Hi there! Nice to meet a Food Friend! Thanks!
You should swap recipes with @glennandfriendscooking
Glenn and Friends is one of my favorite channels! Thanks!
Good day
Who do you have all your items willed to ??
The Smithsonian should accept your collection.
I would HATE. to think your collection would be split up .