I want to thank you and your viewers/commenters. I quit baking cookies when my granny (and best friend) died in 1989. I was 21 years old and had already won several awards for my cookies. The joy of baking anything died that day, although I would occasionally mix up cupcakes or a buttermilk pie. There was just no love left. Just the hurt of her absence kept me from baking. However, you and your wonderful viewers/commenters have sparked something in me that I thought was gone forever. Watching your current videos, catching up on old ones and reading some of the best and kindest comments, has made me feel like, well.... it is all okay.... You guys just make me smile! So, for the first time in my twenty year old son's life, he will taste my cookies this Christmas this year! Thanks to all and bestest wishes!!!! EDIT 2/16/23: I did manage a batch prior to Christmas and it was the beginning.....My hubby secretly found this exact Cooky Book and surprised me with it as part of my Christmas. I have made several recipes so far to the joy of the entire household! It was hard emotionally to start (I shed a tear over granny's whisk, lol) but with the encouragement that I have received, I have learned to find great joy in my kitchen again. I say that this is one of the best community of viewers on the platform. I am so so thankful to all!
Your granny would be proud of you, auburnkim. Baking cookies is a great way to remember her, and share her memory with your son. I bake molasses crinkles to remember my grandma. I didn't have her recipe, so I baked the Betty Crocker recipe, instead. Many, many years later, my aunt found some recipe cards of grandma's, including her molasses crinkles! But it turned out.......HER recipe actually was the Betty Crocker recipe, LOL So I had been baking grandma's this whole time. Still, they weren't exactly the same, because grandmas add that special pinch of love.
I can't do without that book. When I was growing up, we had a neighbor who made all of her holiday sweets from that book. We got the same gift every year. English toffee, caramel corn, and chocolate crinkles. It got to where it just wasn't Christmas without Vickie's sweets. The year my mom died, my father wanted to do something completely different for Christmas to make it go easier, so he took us to Disneyland. It really did feel strange. Stockings were hung by the suitcases with care. Just before we left, Vickie caught up with us and gave us a box. Inside was English toffee, caramel corn, and chocolate crinkles. So, while we makeshifted Christmas best we could in a hotel, getting ready to go to an amusement park, her treats made it feel like christmas. I make crinkles every year out of that book in memory of Vickie, the Christmas that almost wasn't, and my mom.
Don’t apologize for talking about your favorite cookbooks. It is part of what makes your show so interesting to me. When I make my thumbprints, I always fill the center with raspberry preserves and then I bake the cookie. When you bite into the cookie, you do not lose half of the jelly, because it actually becomes a part of the thumbprint. It is still pretty, but it’s not as messy to eat . Thank you again for your show and the tips we get from the different cookbooks you have collected.
This was such a special video! 1963 was my birth year and I'm turning 60 in a week! 😳 I didn't grow up with this cookbook but I love your excitement for vintage cooking. Never change Anna, you've got a fantastic channel!
Hope you had an AMAZING Birthday!!! Happy Birthday with oh so many more to come!! we were lucky to grow up in the 60/70's!! 1960 baby here!! New Year's Eve!! looking at 63..does'nt seem much past IDK 40 some..lol..except at times, joints..otherwise!!! This cookbook rocks!!
My absolute go-to cookie book for the last 50 years! BTW, yes, that Thumbprint recipe needs to be doubled. We top each one with half a walnut instead of jam. It reduces the sweetness.
Awww, I love that book! It was a flippin’ staple in my mom’s collection. I inherited her copy. ❤ Her all-time favorite cookie from the book was the Cherry Blinks. I’d SO recommend this cookbook. Oldie but a gosh-dang goodie!!!!
I inherited my mom's as well and set it out as part of my Christmas decorations every year. My husband loves the snickerdoodle cookies on the same page as the chocolate crinkle cookie. Yum! Thanks for the fun video!
We loved the candy cane cookies. My oldest sister would spend hours doing them as gifts. She made them really delicate and beautiful. She had made a whole box of them and came home one day to discover the dog had eaten them. He’d found the box in her bedroom. Let’s just say the language was colorful.
I’m 57, this is the cookie book of my childhood for sure. I have our original and still bake from it regularly. The candy cane cookies were sooo tasty to me, we rolled them in crushed starlight mints. The chocolate crinkles that you made today are one of my favorites (soft are my preference) and my downfall. I can eat a half dozen before I even know what happened! The lemon bars are awesome too!
My mom and I used to make the thumbprint cookies, but without nuts. We used a thimble to make the indentations and it worked perfectly. After they cooled, we put raspberry jam in the little thumbprints! Delicious!
How fun! I just got this book at a thrift store a month ago for 10 cents! I paused the video after the brownies and they’re in the oven now :) thank you
I haven’t made any from this specific book. But the cookie that I associate with the holidays are my grandmothers super thin sand tart cookies. She usually makes them on or right before Thanksgiving to store until Christmas. According to her it brings out a nutty flavor. Decorating them with sanding sugar and using the leftover dough to make cinnamon sugar pinwheels is absolutely a core memory for me.
This brings back so many memories. My grandmother made the thumbprint cookies every year at Christmas and my grandpa called them the bloodshot eyeball cookies.
The Cooky Book is a staple at our house too! The Lemon Squares and Snickerdoodles are my daughter's (who is our expert baker) go-tos and I always make the Peanut Butter cookies, for peanut butter blossoms, and Russian Tea Cakes, which we refer to as Snowballs. Thank you for all the Cooky Book content!
The nostalgia is overwhelming! The last time I made those Thumbprint cookies was 1972 and the Chocolate Crinkles sometime around then, as well. My favorites from the book are Ethel’s Sugar Cookies and Gingies made with dark molasses (they taste like a puffy gingerbread cookies). Love your channel, love those old cookbooks. Looking forward to your next Cooky Book bake🤗🍪
Thanks for the shout-out! 😊 I can't get over that miniature one! How tiny can we gooooooo? Time will tell! It really is the best book. That one and Betty Crocker's Cook Book For Boys And Girls are two of my biggest faves. The photos! The illustrations! PERFECTION.
I’m 68 and unbelievably still have and use my original copy of the Cooky Book, purchased when I was about 12. Have loved baking since childhood. You will enjoy this cookbook. It’s full of timeless, delicious recipes. 🙂
Well, you sold me the idea: I just bought a copy on eBay! I remember being given these kinds of cookies as gifts when I was younger (still very young at the age of 63). Tee hee!
When I was in 2nd grade, my mom made those exact candy cane cookies from this book for my whole class! Everyone loved them! All the kids made her crayon picture thank you notes. Mom kept those notes for decades! I have so many precious childhood memories starring my mom, and baking cookies from that delightful book! ❤❤❤❤
Cooky Booky! Honestly Betty Crocker missed an opportunity for a kitschy, fun name. Its what I call it in my head. Thumbprint cookies are also called Birdsnest with jam cookies in some books. We always used either strawberry or raspberry jam. Watching you bake them brought back a strong memory of the smell of the nuts roasting as the cookies baked in the oven. A wonderful smell. The cookie always reminded me of a sort of shortbread. Thanks for your videos Anna. They are so delightful and cosy. Please never stop talking about the Cooky Booky.
Still use that book to this day. Mom made chocolate crinkle cookies almost each Christmas season. Even used that recipe at the competition at the County Fair. Good memories❤
Your enthusiasm for that book reminds me of my enthusiasm for some of my "before my time" favourite books. There's a coziness about them that is so comforting.
Oh how I wish they would let us add pictures here! So I’m 67 and have the original cookbook that was my Aunts. It is one in a whole set that she had. In the front of it is some loose recipes from different places. One is a page from a Woman’s Day magazine with a picture of a three tiered snack tray loaded with Christmas cookies and a list of all their names and numbers on each cookie to identify them. I was so bummed that there were no matching pages with the recipes 🥴 but the title said “Christmas Cookies from our Collectors cook book”. So I went on an internet search to find a cookbook but only found little booklet looking things and the light bulb clicked on! I remembered that ever so often my mom would cut out recipe pages that were in the center of her beloved magazine! I opened the book back open and started sorting through all the clipping and unfolding them to see what all of them were and to my surprise there folded in half were the stapled pages of The Collectors Cook Book Christmas cookies Woman’s Day Kitchen #83 Dec 1963! It has the recipes for all the pictured cookies in it. I thought how I’d love for you to see it thinking you’d be as tickled as me to enjoy the history in it. I have only sons so I enjoy watching how much you enjoy recreating the recipes from my era. You bring a lot of joy to your viewers!
We had a neighbor who would always give Xmas cookies and the thumbprint cookies were my favorite! She was fancy and would pipe the icing with a star tip ❤
The butterscotch brownies don’t actually last a week, no matter how you store them. My ex husband loved them, and it was a miracle if they lasted two days. lol. I love your channel, so glad I found you!
I remember the thumbprint cookies my mom used to make at Christmas time in the '50s. Instead of jelly or icing, she used to put either a red or green candied cherry on top. The reason I like these cookies so much is that they're not so super sweet like a lot of cookies of today. Thank you for bringing back such "sweet" memories for me.
Thank you for the video!! Making Christmas cookies has been “my thing” since my teens!! I am retiring in a few days so that tells you how long I have been making Christmas cookies!!😂. The chocolate crinkles are my middle son’s favorite! I still make them every year even though he is 39!! Christmas cookies are a great tradition!! My recipe for the chocolate crinkles have you dip them again in a new bowl of powdered sugar (not the same one the raw dough was rolled in!) when the cookies are cooled. Gives a more snowy look! Thanks for sharing!!!
I think you’ve fulfilled a personal quest for me! Years ago I had a recipe for “Susie’s Blondies” which are NOT classic blondies. I think it may be the butterscotch bars - running out the store for the ingredients this afternoon. Growing up thumbprint cookies often had those creepy candied red and green cherries instead of icing
My Mom had this book when I was growing up. It didn't survive our childhood. The first twenty pages and cover are loose. Our Grandma gave it to her and her twin in 1963 and kept a copy for herself. Our family favorites are Canadian Oatmeal Shortbread, Russian Tea Cakes, Snickerdoodles, Raisin Crisscross Cookies, and Molasses Crinkles. This and Carole Walter's Great Cookies are my two favorite cookie cookbooks.
This was the cookbook I cooked from at Christmas-time when I was a teen. I purchased a re-release in the past couple years and now my granddaughter loves it.
So! I made up my mind to make the fudge meltaway bars without making up my mind to read. I had started making the base when it finally occurred to me that they involve a raw egg. I'm currently pregnant, so I left the egg out and, unsurprisingly, the base is too crumbly. So I plan to double the icing filling and put the whole panful in the stand mixer and use it to make truffles. I suspect that they will be reminiscent of german chocolate cake in flavor. Will let you know!
I'm 74 and grew up watching my aunts bake cookies for many occasions. Thumbprint were always part of the group. Great memories of great people who always baked. Keep your family close....they're not always going to be there.😊
I got this book a few years ago when it was featured in Country Living magazine. Last Christmas, my daughter and I made the kaleidoscope cookies. We used red food coloring. The dough was quite thick, and we couldn't get the food coloring mixed evenly, so when we sliced the rounds, they looked like sliced meat for a charcuterie board. LOL, we still laugh about it, but the cookies tasted great!
Growing up, we mainly only baked the chocolate chip bars recipe (we never formed them into cookies) from this book. But I loved browsing through it and dreaming of trying others. My favorite section has always been the collection of historical trivia and top recipes of certain decades, I think it was. It seems to me there are two different chocolate chip cookie recipes in different places in the book, we always used the one in the historical section. There are notations there and the page has a grease stain from when someone laid the butter wrapper on the page. As I got older and more independent in the kitchen, I did try a few other recipes. I was disappointed with the lack of mint flavoring when I made the adorable candy cane cookies, one year. I love mint and had high expectations. I inherited the original copy when Mom died, but was gifted a reprint copy before that when I moved out on my own as an adult. I prefer to use my childhood one. It has more sentimental memories, like the burnt ring on the back cover that happened in an "I Love Lucy"- style moment when I was cooking one day. Somehow as I was moving things around on the stove and the counters, in a busy spurt, I knocked over something that knocked into something else, that sent the book over towards the stove and onto the hot burner. I yanked it up to safety, but a loose sheet of paper with another family favorite recipe on it went flying out of the book and landed on the burner. It caught fire and didn't know what else to do but dunk it in the sink. Thankfully, I was able to regain control of the situation from that point. It was scary at the time because so many things were happening at once and then suddenly there was a small fire, but afterward, it struck me as a comical situation. I wish I could better remember the details to tell it more effectively.
You had me at the butterscotch bars. I need to make those! There is another cookie book you may be interested in. It was put out by Scholastic Books and sold through their book club in schools. It came out when I was a kid sometime in the 70's. It's called "The Cookie Book" by Eva Moore. The recipes were simple (for kids) but really good. Mom used the book's recipe for peanut butter cookies and they were the best!
My favorite cookie recipes come from the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbooks - the 1953 one and one from the 1960's, The sugar cooky cut-outs with orange zest is delicious! The ginger cookies and the peanut butter crisscrosses are the best.
We call butterscotch brownies “blondies.” My mom always used raspberry jam in thumbprints. It is sweet and a little tart. Lots of flavor. The chocolate crinkles are the only cookie my sis in law makes every year at Christmas 🎄
I recall this book well as I’m 65. I recall our rotary mixer we used. Mom had a kitchen aid mixture we used as well. I think these are better than newer cookies out these days.
The Cooky Book was my mom's favorite! I loved looking through it as a kid. She passed away in September and I pulled it out while watching this video. I wasn't expecting to get emotional over a cook book. Thank you for reminding me of it.
Chocolate crinkles are my very favorite holiday cookies. I don't make them every year but when I do they disappear fast. My mother made them every year.
I opened that exact cookie cook book this morning! It has been my cookie go-to for 55 years!! Had to warn my granddaughter to be careful with turning the pages, as they are a brittle and the binding is taped together!
I love this book so much. My mom got it in 1975. My sisters and I each have a copy now. Cream Wafers are the best cookie ever. I made my mother bake dozens of them for my wedding.
We made the candy cane cookies when I was a kid. I loved the memory of the kitchen table covered with cookies at Christmas. My brother was in Germany and I had a sister in Japan. We made boxes for both
I bought this cookbook back in 1978 and lost it when something happened to my house. Recently my son asked me to make him some cookies that I had been making every he coud remember so I boiught a new copy of this book and will be making the bonbon cookies they are awesome
My mom bought this book back in the 60s, when I was in third grade (1963/64, thereabouts). We LOVED it. I learned to bake from this book. There are many recipes in here that I still make all the time, like the Candy Cane cookies, thumbprint cookies, fudge melt always,oatmeal cookies, Jan Hagels and marzipan cookies. (I loved making the fruits and veggies when I was young). We still use Ethel’s Sugar cookies every Christmas. The only cookie cookbook I use. Still. In fact, I had to buy a new copy because we wore it out.
What I enjoy the most about your videos is learning how to look through a cookbook and appreciate the design, layout and images as well as the recipes. TBH I'm not a recipe follower (and don't own a cookbook) because I guess I never understood it. Watching you review the cookbooks and choose a recipe then follow the instructions is really expanding my mind. Sounds ridiculous but true!
Oh thank you! Recipe layout really matters to me when it comes to cookbooks. It's interesting to see how the layouts have changed and what has been popular during each decade!
We grew up with this cookie book. In the winter off from school we'd read through and figure out which cookie to make. Seems we only ever had ingredients for moms favorite snickerdoodles. The pages that we used over and over have butter stains and there are bits of hard cookie dough in some spots. We now buy this for newly married couples for them to enjoy also. They get the famous red plaid home and gardens cook book and this one as a gift.
I grew up with the Cooky Book. Back in the early 2000's when they reprinted it, my mother saw them at Cracker Barrel and ordered them for the sister and I, and my brothers' wives. I couldn't have been more happy to have my own copy because I'd call her every year from states away and have her read me the recipes I wanted for Christmas cookies. I love the Russian Tea Cakes and make them every year. My younger son and son-in-law love the Chocolate Crinkles you made. My two daughters love the Candy Cane cookies. We've always used peppermint extract in those, as you suggested. I know the peanut butter cookie recipe by heart because I make it so often. I do add a bit of vanilla to those that isn't in the recipe. We are still trying to figure out if mom used the Ethel's or Mary's recipe for cut-out cookies. She's 90 with dementia, but honestly has been giving me different answers for at least 20 years. I do believe it's Ethel's though because of her memory of the ingredients. I have also bought the book for my daughters and many friends over the years. It's such a special book. I'm so glad you love it!
I’ve had that book for decades! My mother was a home ec teacher and had it, and she gave me one when I got married. I’ve made all three of those recipes!! The Butterscotch Brownies are my go-to recipe!
I was born in 1963, the year this cookie book came out, so I too grew up with it. Through the years, after moving out, I purchased the reprint. Up until her death a few years ago, my mom and I had an ongoing argument on which of us had the original. She insisted I had it and I insisted she had it, adding, why would I buy the reprint if I had the original? LOL. This really brought back memories for me and I would love to be able to have yet another argument with her over this book. 💕😀 As for the actual cookies you made in this video, we always made the thumbprints (with jelly) and the chocolate crinkles for Christmas and they were indeed very yummy. Thanks for the video. (My first time seeing your channel).
Can't believe I happened on this video. I am 73 and grew up with this cookbook. I am on my 2nd copy. The original was my grandmother's and was held together with masking tape until I was delighted to find a replacement at Sam's 10 years ago. Butterscotch brownies are my favorite. I replace nuts with toasted coconut. Always have them in my freezer for a quick bite.. Thanks for sharing. 😊
Those chocolate crackle cookies are one of my favorites. Also, the baking chocolate.... When I was a little d, I'd cut off bits of the baking chocolate to nibble on. This is how i and my mom discovered that Special Dark wasn't dark enough chocolate for me!
Using coconut oil might make it easier - it hardens faster than most vegetable oils and gives the chocolate a good taste. I used to make trays of cookies to give to friends and family and the candy cane cookies were always included - often the butterscotch brownie and the chocolate crinkles were included as well. My favorite baking book is the Fanny Farmer Baking Book. My new friend saw it on my kitchen shelf and knew instantly that we would be good friends as it was her favorite baking book as well.
I collect cookbooks. I have about 300, but I tell people you only need 3 . The Joy Of Cooking pre-1985, the Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook and the Betty Crocker Cooky Book. I've purchased sooo many old copies to give to people.
I love my Betty Crocker cookbooks. My one book was so worn that my kids placed all the pages into plastic sheets and put them into a 3 ring binder. We love the thumbprint cookies without the nuts and put apricot jelly in the center and then bake them. .
My mom has made thumb print cookies since I was little and now my kids ask for them every year, but we put almond extract in ours. They are one of my favorite cookies ever.
This cookbook is a family favorite, both my brother and I have copies. My mom made the cream wafers to serve at her wedding reception. The salted peanut crisps and date pinwheels are the two she made the most from this cookbook. I have so many memories of paging through and looking at all the cookie pictures as a kid.
Chocolate Yummies, page 115. The cafeteria ladies at my elemtary school (Fort Myers Beach 1961 - 1967) made these on Fridays and I lived for Friday. They shaped them like the thimballs and managed to achieve a shiny gloss (the chocolate? Back in a warm oven for a few?) No she. They were the BOMB.
My mom received a Betty Crocker cookbook as a wedding present in 1950 and I used to read it for fun in between making making recipes. I think we made every cookie in that book. At least, everything you named was very familiar! Making cookies was always a big part of getting ready for Christmas!
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I want to thank you and your viewers/commenters. I quit baking cookies when my granny (and best friend) died in 1989. I was 21 years old and had already won several awards for my cookies. The joy of baking anything died that day, although I would occasionally mix up cupcakes or a buttermilk pie. There was just no love left. Just the hurt of her absence kept me from baking.
However, you and your wonderful viewers/commenters have sparked something in me that I thought was gone forever. Watching your current videos, catching up on old ones and reading some of the best and kindest comments, has made me feel like, well.... it is all okay....
You guys just make me smile!
So, for the first time in my twenty year old son's life, he will taste my cookies this Christmas this year!
Thanks to all and bestest wishes!!!!
EDIT 2/16/23: I did manage a batch prior to Christmas and it was the beginning.....My hubby secretly found this exact Cooky Book and surprised me with it as part of my Christmas. I have made several recipes so far to the joy of the entire household! It was hard emotionally to start (I shed a tear over granny's whisk, lol) but with the encouragement that I have received, I have learned to find great joy in my kitchen again. I say that this is one of the best community of viewers on the platform. I am so so thankful to all!
Your granny would be proud of you, auburnkim. Baking cookies is a great way to remember her, and share her memory with your son.
I bake molasses crinkles to remember my grandma. I didn't have her recipe, so I baked the Betty Crocker recipe, instead. Many, many years later, my aunt found some recipe cards of grandma's, including her molasses crinkles! But it turned out.......HER recipe actually was the Betty Crocker recipe, LOL So I had been baking grandma's this whole time. Still, they weren't exactly the same, because grandmas add that special pinch of love.
Hugs to you. Before you know it, you'll be the Grandma sharing with your beloved Grandbabies.
@@OhJodi69 Thanks so much with all my heart!
@@pamelamccarthy1412 You guys are the best...... I have tears..
I'm so happy to hear this. I'm sure granny is smiling down on you.
You should add one Cooky recipe to each of your weekly videos! Literally baking through the Cooky book until you’ve made them all! ❤️
Agreed! ❤
Yes, please!
Oh that would be such fun!
Great idea!
I can't do without that book. When I was growing up, we had a neighbor who made all of her holiday sweets from that book. We got the same gift every year. English toffee, caramel corn, and chocolate crinkles. It got to where it just wasn't Christmas without Vickie's sweets.
The year my mom died, my father wanted to do something completely different for Christmas to make it go easier, so he took us to Disneyland. It really did feel strange. Stockings were hung by the suitcases with care. Just before we left, Vickie caught up with us and gave us a box. Inside was English toffee, caramel corn, and chocolate crinkles. So, while we makeshifted Christmas best we could in a hotel, getting ready to go to an amusement park, her treats made it feel like christmas. I make crinkles every year out of that book in memory of Vickie, the Christmas that almost wasn't, and my mom.
That’s so fun - I have my grandmother’s copy with all her handwritten notes, including a thrice-underlined “NO”
I love this. I have a book from my grandma that says BAD! It makes me want to make it so I can experience it and laugh
I just ordered this book, would love to know which recipe got a triple no!
I would be thrilled to know what got the NO from your grandma!
Oh the handwritten notes are the BEST! 😂
I have my Mom's copy (and many of her other cookbooks) and she would write NO with 3 explanation points! 😂
Don’t apologize for talking about your favorite cookbooks. It is part of what makes your show so interesting to me.
When I make my thumbprints, I always fill the center with raspberry preserves and then I bake the cookie. When you bite into the cookie, you do not lose half of the jelly, because it actually becomes a part of the thumbprint. It is still pretty, but it’s not as messy to eat . Thank you again for your show and the tips we get from the different cookbooks you have collected.
This is how my mother made them up until a couple years ago. She's 90 and now in an assisted living home. They were my stepfather's favorite cookies.
I have been making thumbprints for quite a while now. Sometimes I use green tinted coconut so they look like wreaths plus I love toasted coconut.
This was such a special video! 1963 was my birth year and I'm turning 60 in a week! 😳
I didn't grow up with this cookbook but I love your excitement for vintage cooking. Never change Anna, you've got a fantastic channel!
Me too! Only Friday is my 60th. Happy birthday! 🎊
Happy Birthday to you too!! You'll have to tell me how 60 feels on Friday - LOL!!
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Haha!
Love your remark about board games! It is fun playing trivia games with younger people - I do know things they have no idea about 😂
Thank you so much for your kind words, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🎂
Hope you had an AMAZING Birthday!!! Happy Birthday with oh so many more to come!! we were lucky to grow up in the 60/70's!! 1960 baby here!! New Year's Eve!! looking at 63..does'nt seem much past IDK 40 some..lol..except at times, joints..otherwise!!! This cookbook rocks!!
My absolute go-to cookie book for the last 50 years! BTW, yes, that Thumbprint recipe needs to be doubled. We top each one with half a walnut instead of jam. It reduces the sweetness.
Awww, I love that book! It was a flippin’ staple in my mom’s collection. I inherited her copy. ❤ Her all-time favorite cookie from the book was the Cherry Blinks. I’d SO recommend this cookbook. Oldie but a gosh-dang goodie!!!!
I inherited my mom's as well and set it out as part of my Christmas decorations every year. My husband loves the snickerdoodle cookies on the same page as the chocolate crinkle cookie. Yum! Thanks for the fun video!
We loved the candy cane cookies. My oldest sister would spend hours doing them as gifts. She made them really delicate and beautiful. She had made a whole box of them and came home one day to discover the dog had eaten them. He’d found the box in her bedroom.
Let’s just say the language was colorful.
I’m 57, this is the cookie book of my childhood for sure. I have our original and still bake from it regularly. The candy cane cookies were sooo tasty to me, we rolled them in crushed starlight mints. The chocolate crinkles that you made today are one of my favorites (soft are my preference) and my downfall. I can eat a half dozen before I even know what happened! The lemon bars are awesome too!
That was always my favorite!
My mom and I used to make the thumbprint cookies, but without nuts. We used a thimble to make the indentations and it worked perfectly. After they cooled, we put raspberry jam in the little thumbprints! Delicious!
This could be an amazing video series: Cookie recipes from the 50/70/80s. And I love lazy cookie recipes!
How fun! I just got this book at a thrift store a month ago for 10 cents! I paused the video after the brownies and they’re in the oven now :) thank you
That was a heck of a deal!
I haven’t made any from this specific book. But the cookie that I associate with the holidays are my grandmothers super thin sand tart cookies. She usually makes them on or right before Thanksgiving to store until Christmas. According to her it brings out a nutty flavor. Decorating them with sanding sugar and using the leftover dough to make cinnamon sugar pinwheels is absolutely a core memory for me.
I had never heard of sand tarts until I saw them prepared on Mennonite Farmhouse. They look delicious!
My mom made those sand tarts every year for Christmas. All kinds of cut out shapes that we sprinkled with colored sugars before baking! Loved them! ❤
This brings back so many memories. My grandmother made the thumbprint cookies every year at Christmas and my grandpa called them the bloodshot eyeball cookies.
LOL!
Your grandpa sounds like he had a good sense of humor!!😂
The Cooky Book is a staple at our house too! The Lemon Squares and Snickerdoodles are my daughter's (who is our expert baker) go-tos and I always make the Peanut Butter cookies, for peanut butter blossoms, and Russian Tea Cakes, which we refer to as Snowballs. Thank you for all the Cooky Book content!
YES!! the lemon squares are amazing!! 1st time I made them was so happy how they turned out !!
The nostalgia is overwhelming! The last time I made those Thumbprint cookies was 1972 and the Chocolate Crinkles sometime around then, as well. My favorites from the book are Ethel’s Sugar Cookies and Gingies made with dark molasses (they taste like a puffy gingerbread cookies). Love your channel, love those old cookbooks. Looking forward to your next Cooky Book bake🤗🍪
Thanks for the shout-out! 😊 I can't get over that miniature one! How tiny can we gooooooo? Time will tell! It really is the best book. That one and Betty Crocker's Cook Book For Boys And Girls are two of my biggest faves. The photos! The illustrations! PERFECTION.
YES I love the Cook Book for Boys and Girls too!
I bought this book from your other video with the link you provided. I'm 67 so these are cookies from my childhood and they're wonderful; thank you!
I’m 68 and unbelievably still have and use my original copy of the Cooky Book, purchased when I was about 12. Have loved baking since childhood. You will enjoy this cookbook. It’s full of timeless, delicious recipes. 🙂
Me, too! I have marked all of the lemon cookies for me to work through as a start. Lol
So happy you grabbed a copy, I hope you love it! ❤
Chocolate kringle's, pecan tassies, and snickerdoodles a Christmas cookie trilogy
At a vintage book store, I bought old cookbooks, and the lady asked if I watch Anna (you)? I said, "Of course!"
As a 1962 bride all these recipes are very familiar to me.
"Keep delicious for days" HAHAHAH!!! DAYS? They don't last that long!
Well, you sold me the idea: I just bought a copy on eBay! I remember being given these kinds of cookies as gifts when I was younger (still very young at the age of 63). Tee hee!
When I was in 2nd grade, my mom made those exact candy cane cookies from this book for my whole class! Everyone loved them! All the kids made her crayon picture thank you notes. Mom kept those notes for decades! I have so many precious childhood memories starring my mom, and baking cookies from that delightful book! ❤❤❤❤
Cooky Booky! Honestly Betty Crocker missed an opportunity for a kitschy, fun name. Its what I call it in my head. Thumbprint cookies are also called Birdsnest with jam cookies in some books. We always used either strawberry or raspberry jam. Watching you bake them brought back a strong memory of the smell of the nuts roasting as the cookies baked in the oven. A wonderful smell. The cookie always reminded me of a sort of shortbread. Thanks for your videos Anna. They are so delightful and cosy. Please never stop talking about the Cooky Booky.
Thank you! ❤
Still use that book to this day. Mom made chocolate crinkle cookies almost each Christmas season. Even used that recipe at the competition at the County Fair. Good memories❤
Your enthusiasm for that book reminds me of my enthusiasm for some of my "before my time" favourite books. There's a coziness about them that is so comforting.
I had an old Cookie Book that began to fall apart so I bought a reproduction that has been my go-to Christmas cookie book for years and years.
Oh how I wish they would let us add pictures here! So I’m 67 and have the original cookbook that was my Aunts. It is one in a whole set that she had. In the front of it is some loose recipes from different places. One is a page from a Woman’s Day magazine with a picture of a three tiered snack tray loaded with Christmas cookies and a list of all their names and numbers on each cookie to identify them. I was so bummed that there were no matching pages with the recipes 🥴 but the title said “Christmas Cookies from our Collectors cook book”. So I went on an internet search to find a cookbook but only found little booklet looking things and the light bulb clicked on! I remembered that ever so often my mom would cut out recipe pages that were in the center of her beloved magazine! I opened the book back open and started sorting through all the clipping and unfolding them to see what all of them were and to my surprise there folded in half were the stapled pages of The Collectors Cook Book Christmas cookies Woman’s Day Kitchen #83 Dec 1963! It has the recipes for all the pictured cookies in it. I thought how I’d love for you to see it thinking you’d be as tickled as me to enjoy the history in it. I have only sons so I enjoy watching how much you enjoy recreating the recipes from my era. You bring a lot of joy to your viewers!
I think you should make two cooky cookbook recipes at least once a month for the next year, twenty twenty four.
We had a neighbor who would always give Xmas cookies and the thumbprint cookies were my favorite! She was fancy and would pipe the icing with a star tip ❤
I grew up eating every cookie in that book. In the 80's. I still make some of these.
It's a classic for sure!
The butterscotch brownies don’t actually last a week, no matter how you store them. My ex husband loved them, and it was a miracle if they lasted two days. lol. I love your channel, so glad I found you!
I grew up with this book as well. I spent hours looking at the pictures.
I'm a 1963 baby! I'm so excited for these recipes 💚
I remember the thumbprint cookies my mom used to make at Christmas time in the '50s. Instead of jelly or icing, she used to put either a red or green candied cherry on top. The reason I like these cookies so much is that they're not so super sweet like a lot of cookies of today. Thank you for bringing back such "sweet" memories for me.
My mom used the cherries too and they were so yummy and festive
I totally thought about using candied cherries! Maybe I'll do that next time.
I also use the candied cherries, I don't even like candied cherries except in these cookies.
Best cookbook ever. It was my first cookbook
Got it when it came out with my allowance. I’m 67 and still use it.
This is one of my favorite new (to me) channels. I love how dearly you love these recipes and books.
When we make the thumb print cookies we put peanust M&Ms on top of the frosting. We call them sitting pretties
Thank you for the video!! Making Christmas cookies has been “my thing” since my teens!! I am retiring in a few days so that tells you how long I have been making Christmas cookies!!😂. The chocolate crinkles are my middle son’s favorite! I still make them every year even though he is 39!! Christmas cookies are a great tradition!! My recipe for the chocolate crinkles have you dip them again in a new bowl of powdered sugar (not the same one the raw dough was rolled in!) when the cookies are cooled. Gives a more snowy look! Thanks for sharing!!!
Yes! The re-roll is essential to the snowy look. ❄️
I think you’ve fulfilled a personal quest for me! Years ago I had a recipe for “Susie’s Blondies” which are NOT classic blondies. I think it may be the butterscotch bars - running out the store for the ingredients this afternoon. Growing up thumbprint cookies often had those creepy candied red and green cherries instead of icing
My Mom had this book when I was growing up. It didn't survive our childhood. The first twenty pages and cover are loose. Our Grandma gave it to her and her twin in 1963 and kept a copy for herself. Our family favorites are Canadian Oatmeal Shortbread, Russian Tea Cakes, Snickerdoodles, Raisin Crisscross Cookies, and Molasses Crinkles. This and Carole Walter's Great Cookies are my two favorite cookie cookbooks.
This book is one of my core childhood memories ❤
This was the cookbook I cooked from at Christmas-time when I was a teen. I purchased a re-release in the past couple years and now my granddaughter loves it.
So!
I made up my mind to make the fudge meltaway bars without making up my mind to read. I had started making the base when it finally occurred to me that they involve a raw egg. I'm currently pregnant, so I left the egg out and, unsurprisingly, the base is too crumbly. So I plan to double the icing filling and put the whole panful in the stand mixer and use it to make truffles. I suspect that they will be reminiscent of german chocolate cake in flavor. Will let you know!
this was the first cookbook i bought after i got married in 1963. marys sugar cookies are the BEST cutout cookies.
I'm 74 and grew up watching my aunts bake cookies for many occasions. Thumbprint were always part of the group. Great memories of great people who always baked. Keep your family close....they're not always going to be there.😊
Butterscotch Brownies!! Hurray for my favorite easy crowd pleaser! I LOVE the Cookie Cook book also😄
I got this book a few years ago when it was featured in Country Living magazine. Last Christmas, my daughter and I made the kaleidoscope cookies. We used red food coloring. The dough was quite thick, and we couldn't get the food coloring mixed evenly, so when we sliced the rounds, they looked like sliced meat for a charcuterie board. LOL, we still laugh about it, but the cookies tasted great!
That's a funny story. It's always the less than perfect turnouts that make the best memories!!
Growing up, we mainly only baked the chocolate chip bars recipe (we never formed them into cookies) from this book. But I loved browsing through it and dreaming of trying others. My favorite section has always been the collection of historical trivia and top recipes of certain decades, I think it was. It seems to me there are two different chocolate chip cookie recipes in different places in the book, we always used the one in the historical section. There are notations there and the page has a grease stain from when someone laid the butter wrapper on the page. As I got older and more independent in the kitchen, I did try a few other recipes. I was disappointed with the lack of mint flavoring when I made the adorable candy cane cookies, one year. I love mint and had high expectations.
I inherited the original copy when Mom died, but was gifted a reprint copy before that when I moved out on my own as an adult. I prefer to use my childhood one. It has more sentimental memories, like the burnt ring on the back cover that happened in an "I Love Lucy"- style moment when I was cooking one day. Somehow as I was moving things around on the stove and the counters, in a busy spurt, I knocked over something that knocked into something else, that sent the book over towards the stove and onto the hot burner. I yanked it up to safety, but a loose sheet of paper with another family favorite recipe on it went flying out of the book and landed on the burner. It caught fire and didn't know what else to do but dunk it in the sink. Thankfully, I was able to regain control of the situation from that point. It was scary at the time because so many things were happening at once and then suddenly there was a small fire, but afterward, it struck me as a comical situation. I wish I could better remember the details to tell it more effectively.
You had me at the butterscotch bars. I need to make those! There is another cookie book you may be interested in. It was put out by Scholastic Books and sold through their book club in schools. It came out when I was a kid sometime in the 70's. It's called "The Cookie Book" by Eva Moore. The recipes were simple (for kids) but really good. Mom used the book's recipe for peanut butter cookies and they were the best!
My favorite cookie recipes come from the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbooks - the 1953 one and one from the 1960's, The sugar cooky cut-outs with orange zest is delicious! The ginger cookies and the peanut butter crisscrosses are the best.
Not sure if I mentioned this. I found a vendor that had them in minature. I have 3 in 3 different dollhouses
I like butterscotch around this time of the year 😊
Just bought a copy over the weekend and a coworker was so excited to look through it to revisit their childhood ❤️
We call butterscotch brownies “blondies.” My mom always used raspberry jam in thumbprints. It is sweet and a little tart. Lots of flavor. The chocolate crinkles are the only cookie my sis in law makes every year at Christmas 🎄
My Mom made those crinkle cookies all the time when my sisters and I were younger. Love them.
I recall this book well as I’m 65. I recall our rotary mixer we used. Mom had a kitchen aid mixture we used as well. I think these are better than newer cookies out these days.
The Cooky Book was my mom's favorite! I loved looking through it as a kid. She passed away in September and I pulled it out while watching this video. I wasn't expecting to get emotional over a cook book. Thank you for reminding me of it.
So sorry for your loss. ❤️
I’ve used this thumbprint cookies FOREVER!! I got this book in 1978 as a shower gift and still have it!! I’ve always used jam in mine
Chocolate crinkles are my very favorite holiday cookies. I don't make them every year but when I do they disappear fast. My mother made them every year.
I opened that exact cookie cook book this morning! It has been my cookie go-to for 55 years!! Had to warn my granddaughter to be careful with turning the pages, as they are a brittle and the binding is taped together!
I love this book so much. My mom got it in 1975. My sisters and I each have a copy now. Cream Wafers are the best cookie ever. I made my mother bake dozens of them for my wedding.
We made the candy cane cookies when I was a kid. I loved the memory of the kitchen table covered with cookies at Christmas. My brother was in Germany and I had a sister in Japan. We made boxes for both
I bought this cookbook back in 1978 and lost it when something happened to my house. Recently my son asked me to make him some cookies that I had been making every he coud remember so I boiught a new copy of this book and will be making the bonbon cookies they are awesome
My mom got me this year's ago because she had it when I was little and it's my favorite cookbook ever. It was published in 1963, year I was born
My mom bought this book back in the 60s, when I was in third grade (1963/64, thereabouts). We LOVED it. I learned to bake from this book. There are many recipes in here that I still make all the time, like the Candy Cane cookies, thumbprint cookies, fudge melt always,oatmeal cookies, Jan Hagels and marzipan cookies. (I loved making the fruits and veggies when I was young). We still use Ethel’s Sugar cookies every Christmas. The only cookie cookbook I use. Still. In fact, I had to buy a new copy because we wore it out.
What I enjoy the most about your videos is learning how to look through a cookbook and appreciate the design, layout and images as well as the recipes. TBH I'm not a recipe follower (and don't own a cookbook) because I guess I never understood it. Watching you review the cookbooks and choose a recipe then follow the instructions is really expanding my mind. Sounds ridiculous but true!
Oh thank you! Recipe layout really matters to me when it comes to cookbooks. It's interesting to see how the layouts have changed and what has been popular during each decade!
@@cooking_the_books your approach is definitely cable show worthy although you'll build a bigger audience on this channel!
My mom grew up making the cookie house every Christmas/holiday season!
I still have my Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls, 1964. Still use it and it has the best sugar cookie recipe!
I’ve used this cookbook since I was a kid.
We grew up with this cookie book. In the winter off from school we'd read through and figure out which cookie to make. Seems we only ever had ingredients for moms favorite snickerdoodles. The pages that we used over and over have butter stains and there are bits of hard cookie dough in some spots. We now buy this for newly married couples for them to enjoy also. They get the famous red plaid home and gardens cook book and this one as a gift.
I grew up with the Cooky Book. Back in the early 2000's when they reprinted it, my mother saw them at Cracker Barrel and ordered them for the sister and I, and my brothers' wives. I couldn't have been more happy to have my own copy because I'd call her every year from states away and have her read me the recipes I wanted for Christmas cookies. I love the Russian Tea Cakes and make them every year. My younger son and son-in-law love the Chocolate Crinkles you made. My two daughters love the Candy Cane cookies. We've always used peppermint extract in those, as you suggested. I know the peanut butter cookie recipe by heart because I make it so often. I do add a bit of vanilla to those that isn't in the recipe. We are still trying to figure out if mom used the Ethel's or Mary's recipe for cut-out cookies. She's 90 with dementia, but honestly has been giving me different answers for at least 20 years. I do believe it's Ethel's though because of her memory of the ingredients. I have also bought the book for my daughters and many friends over the years. It's such a special book. I'm so glad you love it!
I’ve had that book for decades! My mother was a home ec teacher and had it, and she gave me one when I got married. I’ve made all three of those recipes!! The Butterscotch Brownies are my go-to recipe!
A patron brings us cookies , I pull out all the chocolate crinkles. They are so good.
Love the Handy Man's Book in the background-- we had that on our bookshelf when I was a child in the '60's.
I forgot about those candy cane cookies. I remember them being dry and pepperminty.
I was born in 1963, the year this cookie book came out, so I too grew up with it. Through the years, after moving out, I purchased the reprint. Up until her death a few years ago, my mom and I had an ongoing argument on which of us had the original. She insisted I had it and I insisted she had it, adding, why would I buy the reprint if I had the original? LOL. This really brought back memories for me and I would love to be able to have yet another argument with her over this book. 💕😀 As for the actual cookies you made in this video, we always made the thumbprints (with jelly) and the chocolate crinkles for Christmas and they were indeed very yummy. Thanks for the video. (My first time seeing your channel).
Those thumbprint cookies bring back memories !!
Can't believe I happened on this video. I am 73 and grew up with this cookbook. I am on my 2nd copy. The original was my grandmother's and was held together with masking tape until I was delighted to find a replacement at Sam's 10 years ago. Butterscotch brownies are my favorite. I replace nuts with toasted coconut. Always have them in my freezer for a quick bite.. Thanks for sharing. 😊
So glad you enjoyed this one! The Cooky Book is such a classic. 😁
I have that book and the cooky book that is paperback from the early 50s that my mom had. Those recipes are timeless.
The Cookie Book is my most beloved cookbook. ❤
This was my first cookbook. I still have the original one I got in 1965.🙂
Those chocolate crackle cookies are one of my favorites. Also, the baking chocolate....
When I was a little d, I'd cut off bits of the baking chocolate to nibble on. This is how i and my mom discovered that Special Dark wasn't dark enough chocolate for me!
Using coconut oil might make it easier - it hardens faster than most vegetable oils and gives the chocolate a good taste.
I used to make trays of cookies to give to friends and family and the candy cane cookies were always included - often the butterscotch brownie and the chocolate crinkles were included as well.
My favorite baking book is the Fanny Farmer Baking Book. My new friend saw it on my kitchen shelf and knew instantly that we would be good friends as it was her favorite baking book as well.
I collect cookbooks. I have about 300, but I tell people you only need 3 . The Joy Of Cooking pre-1985, the Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook and the Betty Crocker Cooky Book. I've purchased sooo many old copies to give to people.
I love my Betty Crocker cookbooks. My one book was so worn that my kids placed all the pages into plastic sheets and put them into a 3 ring binder. We love the thumbprint cookies without the nuts and put apricot jelly in the center and then bake them. .
I just found this book “in the wild”. I cannot wait to try some new recipes!
My mom has made thumb print cookies since I was little and now my kids ask for them every year, but we put almond extract in ours. They are one of my favorite cookies ever.
This book and the Culinary Institute cookie book is the one my mother cooked from. ❤
This cookbook is a family favorite, both my brother and I have copies. My mom made the cream wafers to serve at her wedding reception. The salted peanut crisps and date pinwheels are the two she made the most from this cookbook. I have so many memories of paging through and looking at all the cookie pictures as a kid.
I haven't seen that book since I was young! OMG memories unlocked! My grandma had the cooky book. 😊
My mother-in-law gave me this cookbook in 1968, and I passed it on to my daughter a few years ago. Thank you so much for this vlog. 💕
That looks like a neat cookbook but I never got it because I didn’t make cookies very often, now I’m rethinking my decision lol
Chocolate Yummies, page 115.
The cafeteria ladies at my elemtary school (Fort Myers Beach 1961 - 1967) made these on Fridays and I lived for Friday. They shaped them like the thimballs and managed to achieve a shiny gloss (the chocolate? Back in a warm oven for a few?) No she.
They were the BOMB.
I display The Cooky Book on my counter during the Christmas holidays!
Me too! 😁
My favorite cookie recipe from Betty Crocker is her gingersnaps. Chewy, spicy, so good!
My mom received a Betty Crocker cookbook as a wedding present in 1950 and I used to read it for fun in between making making recipes. I think we made every cookie in that book. At least, everything you named was very familiar! Making cookies was always a big part of getting ready for Christmas!
Don’t stop talking about the Cooky Book. It’s such a happy topic.