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#326: Old Cookbooks Video Replay

#326: Old Cookbooks Video Replay

April 2025 Paid Subscriber Session

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Apr 30, 2025
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Hello Dear Friends!

What an absolutely wonderful session we had today and it was great to have so many join in with cookbooks and memories. I think we barely scratched the surface and truly believe we could have continued on for hours on this fascinating and favorite topic of many!

Here are books shared and mentioned plus a few links, too. You’ll find the video replay of our session at the bottom of the page.

Books and Links from April Zoom MeetUp

Books shared today and some that were shared with me via email:

  • The Settlement Cookbook, 1936

  • The American Jewish Cookbook, 1955

  • With a Jug of Wine, Morrison Wood, 1949

  • Thoughts for Buffets, 1958

  • Swedish Recipes Old and New, 1955

  • The Ebony Cookbook, Freda DeKnight, 1962 edition

  • Guide culinaire (Kochkunstführer), Auguste Escoffier, 1914

  • The Tassajara Bread Book, Edward Espe Brown, 1972

  • Pasadena Junior League Cookbook, c. 1962

  • Album of Jellied Salads and Aspics

  • Good Housekeepings Appetizer Book

  • Quick Dishes from Culinary Arts Institute, 1982

  • Better Home and Gardens Salad Book

  • Ma Cuisine, Escoffier, c. 1953

  • Nouvelle instruction pour les confitures, les liqueurs, les fruits, François Massialot, 1740 edition (originally written in 1692)

  • Le cuisinier royal, André Viard, 19th Edition (1st Edition in 1817)

  • Household Searchlight Recipe Cookbook, 1938

  • Betty Crocker’s New Dinner for Two

  • Maryland’s Way

  • Prudence Penny Cookbook, c. 1957

  • The Art of Fine Baking, Paula Peck, 1961

  • Encyclopedia of French Cooking, 1988

  • The Book of Household Management, Mrs. Isabella Beeton, 1869

  • Fannie Farmer Cookbook, multiple editions

  • The American Woman's Cookbook, c. 1938. Mine is from 1941

  • The Greater American Cook Book, c. 1939. Mine is 1942

  • Joy of Cooking, Multiple editions

  • Betty Crocker’s Cookbook for Boys and Girls, 1957

  • Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, multiple editions

  • Recipes for a Small Planet, Ellen Buchman Ewald, 1973

  • Old Fashioned Recipe Book, Carla Emory 6th Edition 1975.

  • Clarisse or The Old Cook (translated from the French by A.B. Wakely), c.1920s

  • Food for the Hungry, 1896

  • The White House Cookbook, 1907

  • Entertaining, Martha Stewart

  • Good Housekeepings Appetizer Book, released during the height of the space race

  • The General Foods Album of Jellied Salads and Aspics, It provided a cost per serving based on 1955 prices.

Links

  • For Vintage and Out of Print Cookbooks there is no one better than Bonnie Slotnik. I’ve been to her store so many times and always leave with books I just have to have. You can find Bonnie here and here’s a link to a 2024 New Yorker piece about her.

  • Here is a link to the LA Times article by Marion Cunningham about Clarisse or the Old Cook mentioned above.

  • Many thanks to Jamie Schler for sharing the link to Tourte Aux Épinards (Sweet Spinach Tart).

  • Jello Gallery in Le Roy, NY. Who knew there is a museum dedicated to jello?!

I’m always open to suggestions of sessions you would like so be sure to put them in the comments!

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