Nostalgic Thursday . . .

[earthmother45]

Here is my favorite cookbook, a wedding present from my Mom in 1965.

Comments

[sally_farinacea]

What a treasure, such wonderful memories.

[earthmother45]

:))

[spikesgirl58]

What a great cook book and I loved the Green Stamp on the inside cover. I have one of the loose leaf binder versions of this book and even after forty years, I still love it

[earthmother45]

Did you save S&H Green Stamps? I wasn't sure who would even know what I was talking about...

[spikesgirl58]

Me! I do and yes, we did. My mum would get them from the local A&P. We would go on Wednesdays because that was double stamp night! I remember there was another one... it had a Scottish plaid on it - I want to say Gold Key stamps? Maybe not. Ah, the good old days

[egg_shell]

Good old Betty Crocker. I didn't realize you had one too. Is this just like the one we had at home? Looks like it. A great all-round cookbook.

[earthmother45]

Modern day cookbooks just don't have the home-e-ness, good advice and practical information that the old cookbooks had.

It could be the same one mom had...or maybe she had the loose-leaf one. I don't remember. Do you still have it? Mom's cookbooks were a treasure trove of information and personal memories. I do have her little recipe box where all the recipes are written on 3x5 index cards in her handwriting. I love it!

[egg_shell]

I'm pretty sure I saved it and it might have been one with a binder. But I have it stored in the basement somewhere.

[gurdonark]

My mother had one of those. I was particularly partial to the the gingerbread receipe, and the little printing on the page that made for easy gingerbread man tracing.

[earthmother45]

Without even going to check, I remember all those little line drawings on just about every page! For a child they certainly would have been a treat and fun to draw and trace.

Back in the day, I used to make at least a dozen different kinds of cookies that I would give out in fancy boxes to our friends and family at Christmas time. I would study all the cookie recipes and make sure they would travel well or be good keepers and those would be the ones I made....year after year. I don't go to such extremes anymore, but our daughters still ask for the Snickerdoodles to this day.

[joebanks]

I have a reprint of a 1955 Betty Crocker cookbook along with my mom's original. Those pictures of the state of the art kitchens are priceless.

[earthmother45]

Oh, you have one older than mine, Joe!

Yes, those old pictures are priceless...I love looking at them. And all the other "old timey" pictures throughout the pages.