Pluggers by Rick McKee for November 06, 2023

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    maureenmck Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Why wouldn’t you?

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    yoey1957  about 1 year ago

    Comfort food, done right!

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    Baarorso  about 1 year ago

    You can’t argue with good old fashioned comfort food-especially if it’s done the Betty Crocker way!

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    PraiseofFolly  about 1 year ago

    … grease-stained as it is. There’s a Fanny Farmer in with the inherited collection, too.

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    some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member about 1 year ago

    “First catch your fish.” The best part of old cookbooks is knowing the best (or at least best loved) recipes by the way the pages are stained and discoloured.

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    Farside99  about 1 year ago

    The covers have fallen off of our Good Housekeeping Cookbook, but it still has the best recipes for pies.

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    'IndyMan'  about 1 year ago

    Yep, only I don’t think my wife got it as a wedding present ! !

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    juicebruce  about 1 year ago

    If it ain’t broke don’t fix it ;-)

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    A# 466  about 1 year ago

    I still have Mom’s 1946 printing of the “American Woman’s Cook Book.” The recipes, many of them, are rather pedestrian, but the foodie photos, particularly the color ones, are impressive in their romanticized hyper-perfection.

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    bluephrog  about 1 year ago

    I’m still using the one my Mom was given when she married my Dad in 1931. best recipes for homemade candy and the only one I’ve found for an edible fruitcake.

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    phritzg Premium Member about 1 year ago

    I still have my late wife’s cookbooks, including Better Homes and Gardens (1979 printing) and Betty Crocker (1981). They’re both full of notes of various adjustments she made to many of the recipes. I don’t use either of them, since it’s only been me and my cat here for the last eight years or so. The kitchen bookshelf has a lot of other recipe pamphlets and I don’t use those, either.

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    kaycstamper  about 1 year ago

    I got one in 1970 but bought my sister this one after my other sister threw it out!

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    sheilag  about 1 year ago

    How about the Hershey’s 1934 Chocolate Cookbook?

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    exness Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Mine is Betty Crocker that was given to me for my 16th birthday in 1966. My cookbook collection is somewhere around 100 at this point.

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    Olddog1  about 1 year ago

    The old books. But especially the index cards and small pages written in my mother’s cursive handwriting.

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    chris_o42  about 1 year ago

    I have my mom’s and mother-in-law’s old cookbooks from the 30’s and 40’s and a stack of those old local cookbooks from the 60’s and 70’s. They are the best. The ones from the 30’s and 40’s have great recipes for venison and small game in them.

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    DaBump Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Yes, but I think it’s getting hard to find some of the ingredients!

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    KFischer1  about 1 year ago

    We use Betty. Betty knows everything.

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    GreenT267  about 1 year ago

    Over the years, the various churches in my Midwest hometown took turns raising funds by producing cookbooks. The ones from the 30’s and 40’s had lots of ways to cook using local produce, game and fish and focused a lot on eggs and butter. The ones from the 50’s and 60’s relied more on some “bought” ingredients [e.g., tomato sauce, canned soup, cake mix] and Jell-O. It is amazing what people would put in Jell-O and call a salad. By the 70’s, the recipes mostly sounded like they came from the back of a box mix or can. No one had time to “cook from scratch” anymore.

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    Doug K  about 1 year ago

    My wife has Better Homes and Gardens “New Cook Book” © 1981 that she uses certain recipes from. It is in pieces (chunks) as the spine is ‘broken’.

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    Teto85 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Betty Crocker, Joy of Cooking, Fanny Farmer and Julia Child. We haven’t felt the need for anything more.

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    TMMILLER Premium Member about 1 year ago

    I was in Powell’s Bookstore in Portland. Browsing the cookbooks, a current edition of Betty Crocker Cookbook was around $20. A well used edition with copious notes in the margin was over $100!

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    pheets  about 1 year ago

    Great art. As soon as I saw the book I thought to myself: I have that book! It was Mom’s!" Some fabulous recipes in there, simple and tasty.

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    ctolson  about 1 year ago

    Still use my 1988 Betty Crocker cookbook I bought when I got divorced. Have repaired it many times since the newer ones don’t have my favorite recipes in them.

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Still using cookbooks I got in 1963, good then and still good today.

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    MIHorn Premium Member about 1 year ago

    I still have the Betty Crocker book, but I also have a Mennonite cookbook I got as a wedding present (the first time around). The last two pages show how to cook for a barn-raising.

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    Just-me  about 1 year ago

    I have the 1953 Better Homes and Gardens cookbook my Dad gave my mother for Christmas shortly after they were married. She requested it.

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    Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe  about 1 year ago

    I found a mint 1860 cook book from Lexington VA in my mom’s stuff

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    goboboyd  about 1 year ago

    Ring Binder Betty Crocker. Bought by saving coupons.

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    Spacetech  about 1 year ago

    Amen

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    whelan_jj  about 1 year ago

    My mom’s parents immigrated from Sweden and I loved my grandmother’s “Swedish pancakes”. I asked for the recipe and she told me its in the BH&G cookbook under “crepes”.

    BTW she made authentic Swedish meatballs but no one in the family ever got her recipe.

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    texringer Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Mine is 1975 vintage, but I still sometimes use my mother’s from 1947. Both were wedding presents, too.

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    tcayer  about 1 year ago

    So Pluggers have to look up the recipes they’ve been making for 60 years?

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    g04922  about 1 year ago

    Great cook book….

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    jhpeanut  about 1 year ago

    The New McCall’s Cook Book, 1963-1973. Page 122 has THE best Pineapple Up-side down cake recipe EVER. The instructions is to bake in cast iron- the best way to bake this cake.

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    SofaKing Premium Member about 1 year ago

    If you’re going to own one cookbook, that’s an excellent choice. Joy Of Cooking would be another.

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    Plumb.Bob Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Without the pages of heartfelt explanation about why this recipe changed the authors life for the better.

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    contralto2b  about 1 year ago

    Mom’s is the 1950’s something version we are still using so I guess we count.

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    ekke  about 1 year ago

    Two thoughts: no tofu,no kale.

    Good times!

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    Manitobaman  about 1 year ago

    I have that exact cookbook that MY mom got for a wedding present in late 50’s . Quite a few missing pages and I had to fix up the ones that are there but I treasure this book.

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    KEA  about 1 year ago

    It still works… why change?

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    Zen-of-Zinfandel  about 1 year ago

    The recipe calls for plenty of elbow grease.

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    anomalous4  about 1 year ago

    Is the 1974 Family Circle cookbook* close enough? My BHG cookbook is the “new” one from 1989.

    *The first cookbook I bought after I graduated from college.

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    ladykat  about 1 year ago

    I have cookbooks that belonged to my grandmothers.

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    pamela welch Premium Member about 1 year ago

    YEP! Still a mighty fine cookbook ♥

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    DonKellyStudio  about 1 year ago

    DANG! I think my Mom had this one back in the day.

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    ellisaana Premium Member about 1 year ago

    The two cook books I have used most over the years are Betty Crocker and the Meta Givens Encyclopedia of Cooking copyright 1955.Both have lots of tips about basic household things in addition to recipes— how to choose the right cuts of meat, freshest produce, how to set a table, etc. Givens includes recipes for game, too.

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    ellisaana Premium Member about 1 year ago

    But, hands down the cook book I used the most was Impromptu Cooking. It didn’t have recipes. It was a guide of how to cook things and what goes with what. One of my guy roommates swore he couldn’t learn to cook. He read Impromptu Cooking and the next thing we knew, he was making beef Stroganoff from scratch.

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    metagalaxy1970  about 1 year ago

    I used to have my mother’s betty crocker one. Another thing that got left behind 20 years ago.

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    eddi-TBH  about 1 year ago

    Absolutely nothing wrong with the classics. I was raised on the 50s version of that book.

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    bellestarria  about 1 year ago

    I’m still using the Better Homes and Garden cookbook my mom got for a wedding present, but it’s older than that. My parents got married in 1953. =)

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    nailer Premium Member about 1 year ago

    I bought a 90’s facsimile of a 50’s edition of that book, then I bought a new one about 3 years ago. Very good recipes and to use as reference material. Have quite a collection of classic general cook books, Joy of Cooking, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Fannie Farmer, L.L. Bean, Double Day, as well as regional, ethnic, game and cowboy cooking. mostly bought in Goodwill or Ebay. Must have more than 100 just phisically, and more than two thousand in ebook form, some of which I even paid for. And all started when I wanted to know what to do with my venison.

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    mistercatworks  about 1 year ago

    Food doesn’t change that much. Since recipes cannot be copyrighted, they are recycled endlessly with paragraphs on “the history of squash” tacked on to try to make them seem novel.

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    mafastore  about 1 year ago

    We have an assortment of cookbooks – an entire bookshelf full. The one I use the most is a 1963 printing (bought in the early 1970s in 2 book paperback set) of “the Joy of Cooking”. I bought it for myself (every time I make hard boiled eggs I have to check again how long to cook them). I do have a Betty Crocker cookbook from back then which gets used a lot. Several Pennsylvania Dutch cookbooks. A cookbook written by an Italian couple who had a restaurant in Boston. Two Jewish cookbooks (we are mixed ethnicity). A couple of Colonial Williamsburg cookbooks – also used a lot. Not sure what other cookbooks have also ended up on the shelf.

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