Robinlee

Taste of Home magazines and cookbooks are my favorite. Course my DH would say I have 942 of them, and she uses them all (which I don't but he likes to makeup stories). I also use Allrecipes.com when looking for a certain ingredient, grilled salmon on untreated cedar used on grill for example.

dglvr

I like the old cookbooks. I look for old pre 50's cook books.
I was a yard last weekend and came up on this file box full of old family heirloom recipes for $2. I couldn't believe the family getting rid of it.
For the newer ones though I like the Taste of home end of the year recipe books.

Deb watkins

Paula Dean!

Ramona Byrd

I have an old cookbook of my Mom's, which was so old that it comments on the idea of finding out if your town has a freezing locker. You rented space like a bank's lockers, except larger, and froze your meat and withdrew it out at times of need. It also commented on the radical idea of freezing vegetables and fruits, instead of canning them.

My son has been hinting for that ragged old book for years, he learned to cook on it. It's the Modern Family Cookbook, copyright date 1942. It also has several hand written recipes my mom put in it on any empty space..with so many kids she said she had a hard time keeping track of any paper with a blank back side!!

And the recipe for Ice Box Cookies, well, that was in the days of the well known Ice Box!!

One thing my Grandma taught me was how to tell if the wood stove oven was hot enough for baking this or that..you opened the door and stuck your arm in it and started counting. If you could get to a certain number, it wasn't hot enough, but if within a few seconds it was too hot to keep your arm in it, it was hot enough to bake bread or whatever you had for supper.

For whatever reason, most folks couldn't quite figure out why lots of the older women had the hair on their arms scorced off!!

dglvr

HI Ramona. What an interesting story. Do you have a picture of that old cook book? Love the history. :thumbup:

ptquilts

I have my mom's old Lily Wallace CB, tells about Ration Cooking (during WW2). But my favorite is Joy of Cooking, I had a PB copy that split in half, I was so happy when I got a HC copy at the library book sale.

MNQuilter

I love the Taste of Home cookbooks and just about any cookbook put together by a church! These two have one thing in comon, the recipes are from "normal" cooks. I find they are tried and true and I can follow them easily. I also like that most of them are made withthings I either have in the house or can easily find in my grocery store! I also like allrecipes.com

quiltluvr

My "go to" books of choice are: How To Cook Everything by Mark Bittman and The All New Good Housekeeping Cook Book.

Admittedly, I don't 'use' them for new recipes, just new ideas for dishes I already make.

Darlene

I have one that is made up of recipes from the wives of servicemen in 1965 around the start of the Vietnam war. The recipes came from all over the world.

SuziC

I prefer the cook books made from people's own recipes like the ones you get at church bazzars. Most of them are handed down throughout the years and use "regular" ingredients. They only cost a few dollars too!!