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My old favorite, pages falling out, works great.

Chris

I have a Betty and a Better Homes. They've been my "go tos" for over thity years.

They're both great classic cookbooks.

I keep going back to my old Joy of Cooking books, particularly the one from 1953.
My dog eared copies of Mastering the Art of French Cooking is also close to hand.,

I use the Betty Crocker book way more than the Better Homes one. Maybe because I got used to it, but it's easier to find stuff. I almost never pull out the Better homes, and yet Betty was out just this morning.

My go to is Joy of Cooking

You all use cook books?

Mostly as a suggestion..

My standby's:

The Spice Cookbook, handed down by my mom..
The New Basics..
White Trash Cooking. (Actually, a great cookbook!)
Lord Krishna's Cuisine: The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking..
The Garlic Lover's cookbook..

That has been my go to for 40 years along with a bunch of Lowcountry SC cook books, always love me some oyster pie and or oyster dressing this time of year!

My favorite is The Good Houskeeping Cookbook an aunt gave my mother as a wedding present, copyright 1949. The recipes are a bit dated and notably pork is different from what was available in those days. But the recipes are foolproof if you can follow directions at all and are a great basis for "modernizing" recipes to your tastes. Never had a failure even with something new to me, in spite of minor screw-ups.

everyone should have a copy of James Beards American Cookery

http://www.amazon.com/James-Beards-American-Cookery-Beard/dp/0316085669

I was reading that today! It's very entertaining to read the sources in the back. The best one? "The American Frugal Housewife, Dedicated to Those Who are not Afraid of Economy." by Mrs. Lydia Maria Child

Put me down for Joy of Cooking.

I just had to "Amazon" that book. You can still get it and it is still cheap (sorry for the pun).

Cost is $US 9.99 and is HERE, from Amazon



John

Ha!!!

the other one I found humorous was the West Coast Cookbook. (printed in Boston)

My two that I can't live without, but I have many...

This one, and other Southern Living cookbooks for the finest traditional southern recipes...


And this one is more a "how to" on technique...

I gotta use a cook book for baking stuff (cakes, bread and such) and more or less use other cook books for "ideas" for real food. Been using the BH&G we got as a wedding present 35+ years ago as well as the "More With Less Cookbook", also a wedding present.

Same here. I'll find something new in a cookbook and prepare as directed for a solid baseline. Then gradually (that's the key) make changes so I like it better. I'm not much of a baker so I pretty much stick with those recipes.

Cookbooks are a guideline for measurements and flavor profiles from which to make personal adjustments.

Yup!

I find the only time I really need cookbooks these days is for baking. I also hold most all the CIA textbooks, which are great for the basics.

People think that it a spoof cookbook from the cover and title, but it's a good one.

Very true. I've given it as a gift on more than a few occasions, and it is almost always seen as a gag gift, until people start looking through it (and using the recipes)..

It's a great guide to good old, down home cooking, a knowlege that has increasingly been lost as society becomes more urban.

http://www.amazon.com/White-Cooking-Jargon-Ernest-Mickler/dp/0898151899

Seems like this has been a major "go to" cook book of mine for close to a quarter century. At least twenty years.

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Yep... got & use that one + the "Beard On Pasta" cookbook
+ the Joy of Cooking
+ a very old, raggedy, falling-apart Good Housekeeping Cookbook
+ 3 of Craig Claiborne's cookbooks (including "The New 'New York Times Cookbook' with Pierre Franey")
+ Pierre Franey's "The New York Times 60-Minute Gourmet with an introduction by Craig Claiborne", (his cooking buddy)
+ Julia Child's "The French Chef" cookbook
+ 3 of Jane & Michael Stern's cookbooks
+ 3 of Jeff Smith's (The Frugal Gourmet) cookbooks (a truly sad story there)
+ about 80 or so other cookbooks which I use from time-to-time to get fresh ideas or cross-check recipes.

But one of most used cookbooks on my completely-suffed-full 4� foot long book shelf exclusively dedicated for COOKBOOKS ONLY is Jacqueline H�riteau's "A FEAST OF SOUPS" cookbook because I absolutely AM a "soup person". If you are a "soup person", too... then this COOKBOOK is a "MUST HAVE" for you!!! It is well-written, easy to understand and just full of wonderful soup recipes.

Yes, I freely admit... I'm a "Cookbook JUNKIE"!


We must ALL be alike... look at top of The Real Hawkeye's Julia Child's "The Way To Cook" cookbook" (the post immediately above this one). Do we ALL stuff little torn-off pieces of paper in our cookbooks which we use as "book-marks"? Most of my cookbooks look as if they're GROWING little slivers of paper out the tops of their pages!


Strength & Honor...

Ron T.

I'm a cookbook junkie too. I have dozens.

The whole "White Trash" Series...

Typical Auburn fan...

You don't need a cookbook, Sam, you need a cooking class...LOL

hell, I teach cooking classes!

I went over to the book shelf and counted the 'library'. Current count is 129 cookbooks.

Didn't say you had to be the student...LOL

You might have a problem.