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.
@@cooking_the_books 👍 the pineapple cookies were one of my mom’s staples when I was growing up in Anoka County, Minnesota in the 1970s. Everybody’s mom made snickerdoodles. I begged my mom to make the cookie house, but she wouldn’t budge. She made the candy canes one year, I guess it was probably 1975, and she kept telling everybody how terrible they were. But my brother and I liked them because they were BIG; You know how your mom always says you can have ONE cookie
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.
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. 😊
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 have that book! My grandmother gave it to me for Christmas in the 60’s. I am 72 it is full of our favorites. I still have my book and continue to use it.
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.
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!
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.
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!!
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’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 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.
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🤗🍪
I inherited that same book!, and a lot more cookbooks, carefully curated hand-written recipies, and ones clipped from magazines -- (I remember in school, when learning to spell, and to read the "Dick and Jane" Readers in the 1950's always spelled the word "cookie "C O O K Y"). Cookies are my favourite things to bake! The 1950's seemed to be an "APPETIZER" era as well; so many ladies played "Bridge" and an integral part of the game, were the tid-bits served after.
I love this cookbook. I remember seeing it in my elementary school library in maybe 1973 or so, (I was 9 yrs old) and I baked the Peppermint Meltaways (with a parents help) for a school bake sale. I always loved the photos in the book, so bright and technicolor! Then I never thought about that book again until the early 2000s when I bought a vintage copy on ebay. (I love the original spiral binding- so useful for opening the book all the way and laying it flat on the counter)
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! ❤❤❤❤
My mum had this same book and the page with Snickerdoodles and Chocolate Crinkles was the dirtiest page - spattered with chocolate, cookie dough, etc. We made Snickerdoodles and Chocolate Crinkles all the time.
Your chocolate crinkle cookies are indeed beautiful! I love your enthusiasm about your COOKY BOOK. I, too, loved that book when my mom owned it all those decades ago. Merry Christmas, 2023.
They all looked delicious. My favorite biscuit of all time and most Aussies are Anzac biscuits. Similar to a oatmeal I would say. Wives, women's groups sent these biscuits to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation from WW1 and onwards.
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. 🙂
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!
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.
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.
I just stumbled upon your channel and boy did I just go back in time. This book was the Bible of cookbooks for cookies! Moms was so worn out. We got so excited when they reprinted the original. We love so many reaction here. Cream Wafers are always made. They are just the best.
I love that your videos and love of vintage cookbooks is reconnecting people with memories of their childhoods and loved ones, as well as sparking or rekindling a love of baking and/or cooking and possibly starting a whole new generation on the path of finding old cookbooks or seeking vintage recipes to try and potentially pass onto another generation again with their kids and grandkids. I baked a lot when I was younger and I still love the ideas but lack the energy most of the times to do it. However, my 14 year old daughter loves to bake and is really good at it, and my 16 year old son loves to make scratch biscuits after learning at school. It gives me hope for the future, as well as connecting them with the past as my grandmother, who passed away earlier this year at 93 years old, was always cooking and baking whenever I was at her house, or it seemed that way at least. I was able to photograph a lot of her hand written recipes while visiting with my youngest uncle and his wife in between my grammie passing and her funeral. They live in a different province and it's like an 8 hour drive around or a ferry ride for several hours and an hour plus drive to the ferry on one side and an hour plus drive on the other side, so we cherish the time we get to visit when we're able to make the trip over.
How dare you!!! You made me buy this book!!!! Now I have to invite my nieces and nephews over to create happy memories they can that they can reminisce for when they get older!!! Look at what you’ve done!!! P.S love your videos!!!
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❤
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.
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.
I love your enthusiasm about this book. I feel the same way about This spiral book "Favorite all time Recipes : Jell-o Kids cooking fun". It's from 1991 and the photos are so color and fun. I coveted it as a child and looked through it countless times. Truly brought me joy every time I looked through it, I still have it.
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.
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 love that you’re having a conversation with us. And love the cookies of my life. Great memories of years beside my mom and grandmother. You’ve inspired me to pull out my old recipe books and my own family recipes and get baking again ! Have you ever heard of Coffee Toffee Squares? If you’re interested I’ll share my family secrets 😇❤️
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.
Growing up in the 60's, my Mom made those and many other Christmas cookies. This was interesting to see what the book recommended for the center of the thumbprint cookies. My Mom filled them with a red or green Maraschino cherries. I think our Mom's were armed with Betty Crocker Cook books, but also flew by the seat of their pants. 😄 Great video!
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.
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!
Thanks for sharing. This is the exact way my mother made thumbprint cookies, and yes I have the same betty crocker book handed down to me a new sub from knoxville tn
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.😊
One half dried candied cherry in each thumb print cookie center is nice and festive as well 😊 My Mom used seedless raspberry preserves and that's my favorite.
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.
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 usually filled the cookies with a variety of different jams like raspberry, blueberry, sour cherry, elderberry, apricot, peach, lemon curd, etc. very tasty. These are favorites of my sister. She likes them without the nuts. Using the icing was something I never considered trying.
Anna, THANK YOU for making this video! While watching, I had the wonderful idea to give my granddaughter a copy for her high school graduation and continue our family traditions! (more on that below) I absolutely L-O-v-E this cookie book!!! How awesome that there are Christmas ornaments and miniature versions of it🙂 I still vividly remember many of the pages, especially the picture on the first page, Christmas cookies, cookies for teens, the cookie house, and so many of the pictures at the bottom of the pages. P-L-E-A-S-E keep making these videos! I'm sure they would bring joy to so many people! I suggest you try Russian Tea Cakes, Date Filled Cookies, Satin Glazed Date Drops, Hermits, Molasses Crinkles, snickerdoodles, peanut butter cookies...I could list so many more! My dear Mother made so many of these cookies throughout the year, but Christmas favorites bring back so many wonderful memories. I probably can't even name them all... RUSSIAN TEA CAKES, THUMBPRINTS, CHOCOLATE CRINKLES, SATIN GLAZED DATE DROPS, SUGAR COOKIES, CANDY CANE COOKIES, MOLASSES CRINKLES, DATE FILLED COOKIES, SPRITZ,... I could list so many more! My sister has Mom's cookie book now. My sweet cousin gave me one as a birthday gift when we were high school seniors. My daughter borrowed my book to make cookies when she became a Mom nearly 17 years ago. It brings my heart such joy to see her carry on family traditions baking cokkies with my grandchildren. Thanks again❤️🍪
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!
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.
This is the BEST cooky book! I was born in 1960, so I grew up with this book. Once I "grew up" and moved out on my own, I made sure I got my own copy of the book. My favorite recipe is snickerdoodles! I have made quite a few of the recipes through the years, including all of these. Every home should have this book!
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.
I have soooooo many good memories of baking from this book with my mom growing up in the 80s and 90s. Chocolate Crinkles are my husband's favorite cookie that I make. My mother always made them only at Christmas, and I've carried on the tradition. I offered to make them other times of the year since he loves them so much, but he said the fact they're only made once a year is what makes them extra special.
I grew up with this cookie book. Love it! one of my favorite cookie in this book is the original Lemon Bars (the original recipe has no flour in the lemon custard filling. I love the sweet tartness!
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.
Omg! love your videos.just found you recently. was listening to your video while doing dishes and decided to make the butterscotch bars! Have not made in years! In the past years ive not felt inspired to bake or try anything new but watching you is inspiring me. I love the nostalgia! Ive watched what u eat in a day 1950s and 1960s..so cool! Really want to try some of those recipes as well!
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.
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).
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
Love the cookies, love your enthusiasm for this book, love that mini cookbook. Like a bar cookie, maybe because I'm a lazy baker. Don't have this book but have four holiday baking magazines I look at every year. So much fun looking at all the photos. I suggest for those who want a tiny spoon and cannot find yours, to use a baby food spoon.
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.
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!
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.
Favorite nostalgic cookbook! The butterscotch brownies are a long-time favorite; we usually double the recipe and make it in a 9 x 13 inch baking pan, we love them so much! I am allergic to nuts and can confirm that the butterscotch brownies turn out fine if you leave out the nuts. You can replace them with chocolate chips if you want, but you don't need to adjust anything about the recipe if you just leave them out. They will dry out and harden to the point that you can't bite them, if they are stored in something that is not airtight, though. The snickerdoodles on the same page as the chocolate crinkles, are also really good.
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.
Please don’t ever stop talking about the Cooky Book
I won't! 😊 I'm currently planning out what I want to make for this year's Cooky Book video!
@@cooking_the_books 👍 the pineapple cookies were one of my mom’s staples when I was growing up in Anoka County, Minnesota in the 1970s. Everybody’s mom made snickerdoodles. I begged my mom to make the cookie house, but she wouldn’t budge. She made the candy canes one year, I guess it was probably 1975, and she kept telling everybody how terrible they were. But my brother and I liked them because they were BIG; You know how your mom always says you can have ONE cookie
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.
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.
At a vintage book store, I bought old cookbooks, and the lady asked if I watch Anna (you)? I said, "Of course!"
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!
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! 😂
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. 😁
Those thumbprint cookies bring back memories !!
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 have that book! My grandmother gave it to me for Christmas in the 60’s. I am 72 it is full of our favorites. I still have my book and continue to use it.
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.
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!
The Cookie Book is my most beloved cookbook. ❤
Butterscotch Brownies!! Hurray for my favorite easy crowd pleaser! I LOVE the Cookie Cook book also😄
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.
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!!
I love a good thumbprint cookie. Mmmmm
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!
I display The Cooky Book on my counter during the Christmas holidays!
Me too! 😁
My mom grew up making the cookie house every Christmas/holiday season!
"Keep delicious for days" HAHAHAH!!! DAYS? They don't last that long!
I’ve used this cookbook since I was a kid.
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’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 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.
I just found this book “in the wild”. I cannot wait to try some new recipes!
This could be an amazing video series: Cookie recipes from the 50/70/80s. And I love lazy cookie recipes!
Best cookbook ever. It was my first cookbook
Got it when it came out with my allowance. I’m 67 and still use it.
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🤗🍪
I inherited that same book!, and a lot more cookbooks, carefully curated hand-written recipies, and ones clipped from magazines -- (I remember in school, when learning to spell, and to read the "Dick and Jane" Readers in the 1950's always spelled the word "cookie "C O O K Y"). Cookies are my favourite things to bake!
The 1950's seemed to be an "APPETIZER" era as well; so many ladies played "Bridge" and an integral part of the game, were the tid-bits served after.
I love this cookbook. I remember seeing it in my elementary school library in maybe 1973 or so, (I was 9 yrs old) and I baked the Peppermint Meltaways (with a parents help) for a school bake sale. I always loved the photos in the book, so bright and technicolor! Then I never thought about that book again until the early 2000s when I bought a vintage copy on ebay. (I love the original spiral binding- so useful for opening the book all the way and laying it flat on the counter)
I love the Mint Meltaways! 😋
The Best Cooky Book! I’ve made all those. Yum!
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! ❤❤❤❤
My mum had this same book and the page with Snickerdoodles and Chocolate Crinkles was the dirtiest page - spattered with chocolate, cookie dough, etc. We made Snickerdoodles and Chocolate Crinkles all the time.
Your chocolate crinkle cookies are indeed beautiful! I love your enthusiasm about your COOKY BOOK. I, too, loved that book when my mom owned it all those decades ago.
Merry Christmas, 2023.
My favorite cooky from the BCCB is Holiday Fruit Drops. I have a friend who makes them for me every year and it isn't Christmas without them.
I forgot about those candy cane cookies. I remember them being dry and pepperminty.
They all looked delicious. My favorite biscuit of all time and most Aussies are Anzac biscuits. Similar to a oatmeal I would say. Wives, women's groups sent these biscuits to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation from WW1 and onwards.
I ordered the cookie book and can’t wait to browse through it!!! I know what I’m making for our family get together in 2024!!! Thanks for 5he video!!!
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! ❤
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 !!
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! ❤
Yes I grew up with this book too. I was born in 1965. Can't forget the round pistachio powdered sugar "cookie" Been trying to but can't. Ha ha
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. ❤️
Thank you so much for this beautiful journey, Anna😊
I just stumbled upon your channel and boy did I just go back in time. This book was the Bible of cookbooks for cookies! Moms was so worn out. We got so excited when they reprinted the original. We love so many reaction here. Cream Wafers are always made. They are just the best.
I love that your videos and love of vintage cookbooks is reconnecting people with memories of their childhoods and loved ones, as well as sparking or rekindling a love of baking and/or cooking and possibly starting a whole new generation on the path of finding old cookbooks or seeking vintage recipes to try and potentially pass onto another generation again with their kids and grandkids. I baked a lot when I was younger and I still love the ideas but lack the energy most of the times to do it. However, my 14 year old daughter loves to bake and is really good at it, and my 16 year old son loves to make scratch biscuits after learning at school. It gives me hope for the future, as well as connecting them with the past as my grandmother, who passed away earlier this year at 93 years old, was always cooking and baking whenever I was at her house, or it seemed that way at least. I was able to photograph a lot of her hand written recipes while visiting with my youngest uncle and his wife in between my grammie passing and her funeral. They live in a different province and it's like an 8 hour drive around or a ferry ride for several hours and an hour plus drive to the ferry on one side and an hour plus drive on the other side, so we cherish the time we get to visit when we're able to make the trip over.
How dare you!!! You made me buy this book!!!! Now I have to invite my nieces and nephews over to create happy memories they can that they can reminisce for when they get older!!! Look at what you’ve done!!! P.S love your videos!!!
I love the candy cane cookies! I recently found the book in a book store. My mom lost hers.
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❤
Just bought a copy over the weekend and a coworker was so excited to look through it to revisit their childhood ❤️
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.
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! ❤
Love the date nut pinwheels!❤ so good!
I love your enthusiasm about this book. I feel the same way about This spiral book "Favorite all time Recipes : Jell-o Kids cooking fun". It's from 1991 and the photos are so color and fun. I coveted it as a child and looked through it countless times. Truly brought me joy every time I looked through it, I still have it.
I have this cook book! I love cookies! lol!❤
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
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!!😂
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 love that you’re having a conversation with us. And love the cookies of my life. Great memories of years beside my mom and grandmother. You’ve inspired me to pull out my old recipe books and my own family recipes and get baking again ! Have you ever heard of Coffee Toffee Squares? If you’re interested I’ll share my family secrets 😇❤️
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.
Growing up in the 60's, my Mom made those and many other Christmas cookies. This was interesting to see what the book recommended for the center of the thumbprint cookies. My Mom filled them with a red or green Maraschino cherries. I think our Mom's were armed with Betty Crocker Cook books, but also flew by the seat of their pants. 😄
Great video!
Thank you!! Green maraschino cherries sound perfect. So festive!
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!
this was the first cookbook i bought after i got married in 1963. marys sugar cookies are the BEST cutout cookies.
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!
Another crinkle cookie was a molasses and ginger rolled in sugar. 🌺 Love your videos 🌺
Thanks for sharing. This is the exact way my mother made thumbprint cookies, and yes I have the same betty crocker book handed down to me a new sub from knoxville tn
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.😊
One half dried candied cherry in each thumb print cookie center is nice and festive as well 😊
My Mom used seedless raspberry preserves and that's my favorite.
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.
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 usually filled the cookies with a variety of different jams like raspberry, blueberry, sour cherry, elderberry, apricot, peach, lemon curd, etc. very tasty. These are favorites of my sister. She likes them without the nuts. Using the icing was something I never considered trying.
Anna, THANK YOU for making this video! While watching, I had the wonderful idea to give my granddaughter a copy for her high school graduation and continue our family traditions! (more on that below)
I absolutely L-O-v-E this cookie book!!! How awesome that there are Christmas ornaments and miniature versions of it🙂
I still vividly remember many of the pages, especially the picture on the first page, Christmas cookies, cookies for teens, the cookie house, and so many of the pictures at the bottom of the pages.
P-L-E-A-S-E keep making these videos! I'm sure they would bring joy to so many people! I suggest you try Russian Tea Cakes, Date Filled Cookies, Satin Glazed Date Drops, Hermits, Molasses Crinkles, snickerdoodles, peanut butter cookies...I could list so many more!
My dear Mother made so many of these cookies throughout the year, but Christmas favorites bring back so many wonderful memories. I probably can't even name them all...
RUSSIAN TEA CAKES, THUMBPRINTS, CHOCOLATE CRINKLES, SATIN GLAZED DATE DROPS, SUGAR COOKIES, CANDY CANE COOKIES, MOLASSES CRINKLES, DATE FILLED COOKIES, SPRITZ,...
I could list so many more!
My sister has Mom's cookie book now. My sweet cousin gave me one as a birthday gift when we were high school seniors. My daughter borrowed my book to make cookies when she became a Mom nearly 17 years ago. It brings my heart such joy to see her carry on family traditions baking cokkies with my grandchildren.
Thanks again❤️🍪
When we make the thumb print cookies we put peanust M&Ms on top of the frosting. We call them sitting pretties
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!!
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
❤ I just picked up this book at an estate sale. !
That's so exciting! You're going to have a ton of fun with it.
Thank you for all you do ❤
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.
This is the BEST cooky book! I was born in 1960, so I grew up with this book. Once I "grew up" and moved out on my own, I made sure I got my own copy of the book. My favorite recipe is snickerdoodles! I have made quite a few of the recipes through the years, including all of these. Every home should have this book!
I just ordered a copy of this book because of this video. Recently discovered your channel and have really been enjoying the nostalgia. 😊
Hope you enjoy it! 😊
I have the original book that was my mother's. We used to make the chocolate crinkles each Christmas back in the 60's and 70's.
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.
I have soooooo many good memories of baking from this book with my mom growing up in the 80s and 90s. Chocolate Crinkles are my husband's favorite cookie that I make. My mother always made them only at Christmas, and I've carried on the tradition. I offered to make them other times of the year since he loves them so much, but he said the fact they're only made once a year is what makes them extra special.
I grew up with this cookie book. Love it! one of my favorite cookie in this book is the original Lemon Bars (the original recipe has no flour in the lemon custard filling. I love the sweet tartness!
We make the thumbprint cookies with lots of walnuts and icing filling. Not jelly filling.
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.
Omg! love your videos.just found you recently. was listening to your video while doing dishes and decided to make the butterscotch bars! Have not made in years!
In the past years ive not felt inspired to bake or try anything new but watching you is inspiring me. I love the nostalgia! Ive watched what u eat in a day 1950s and 1960s..so cool! Really want to try some of those recipes as well!
I miss your halloween apron. It looks so good on 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.
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.
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).
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
Love the cookies, love your enthusiasm for this book, love that mini cookbook. Like a bar cookie, maybe because I'm a lazy baker. Don't have this book but have four holiday baking magazines I look at every year. So much fun looking at all the photos. I suggest for those who want a tiny spoon and cannot find yours, to use a baby food spoon.
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.
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!
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.
Favorite nostalgic cookbook! The butterscotch brownies are a long-time favorite; we usually double the recipe and make it in a 9 x 13 inch baking pan, we love them so much! I am allergic to nuts and can confirm that the butterscotch brownies turn out fine if you leave out the nuts. You can replace them with chocolate chips if you want, but you don't need to adjust anything about the recipe if you just leave them out. They will dry out and harden to the point that you can't bite them, if they are stored in something that is not airtight, though. The snickerdoodles on the same page as the chocolate crinkles, are also really good.