#326: Old Cookbooks Video Replay
April 2025 Paid Subscriber Session
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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