Pluggers by Rick McKee for February 05, 2021

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I’ve got a book just like that.

We have an old Fanny Farmer Cookbook like that. Many old recipes from a bygone era, yet still great.

To Serve Chicken.

It’s a cookbook! It’s a cookbook!

Works every time ! Not all cooks are women some of us guys dabble in the sport !

We have four shelves of cookbooks. The hard part is remembering which book has what recipe.

That sounds little my old Betty Crocker cookbook. Although now, I know my favorite recipes by heart.

My late mother-in-law kept her recipes in a 3-ring binder. Some were hand-written and some were taped to the page. No special order and there could be several recipes on a page. She loaned it to me so I could copy some of my hubby’s favorite dishes. I found one page that had stains all over it, so I copied the recipes on that page and tried every one. They didn’t seem to go over well so, when I returned the book I asked her which was the one on that page that he liked and she explained that no one liked the recipes on that page very well—she just put the spoon on it to keep the book open.

The first Christmas after I moved out on my own Mom and Dad gave me a set of pots and pans, and the Better Homes and Gardens NEW COOK BOOK. That thing is stained, sticky, and annotated with notes and comments I’ve made over the years. Still a handy reference. Add to that various other cook books, and the two with recipes I’ve copied from here and there, and I could probably cook something different every night for the rest of my life.

A similar one to one published in 1993, only that one was recipe cards. My wife put it in her recipe binder. Send in by a dude in S Dakota.

Tomato Blob Soup De Jour?

When we are trying new recipes, we rate them. The ones we REALLY like, we put a post-it note flag on the page. Cuts down on hunting for recipes we like.

how else? ;-)

Better Homes & Gardens 1969 print. My sister has an older one. My MIL gave me The New American Cookbook 1942, it has indexed pages! Numbered by recipe, not pages.

Absolutely. Plus the broken spine of the book.

Just like you can tell the Man Plugger’s favorite Playboy by which pages are stuck together!

My mom’s cookbook was like that. I don’t cook much, if I can help it.

that is very true. esspecly with my betty crocker cook book that is 40 years old

CHURCH! Same thing here. Microwave peanut butter fudge. Mmm.