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8:46 pm
February 5, 2012
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Does anyone know of a book where I can find everything I need when it comes to making all sorts of food from scratch. Whether it be butter, apple jelly, mustard, mayonaisse etc.
10:26 pm
November 15, 2010
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Hard to narrow it down to just one book. If Google were on the printed page, I think that would be your best bet for an all around resource for slow cooking.
12:08 am
February 8, 2009
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Over the years I made my own..when I found a recipe for mayonaise I liked…I printed it and kept it..etc etc…internet is full of great recipes..FBR here is full of great recipes.
That must be easier then name just one book…oh another idea is try to find OLD cookbooks, the older the better, then you know for sure it is from scratch.
I also love the cookbooks sold by church or other clubs as a fundraiser…and well if you get into that..build an extra shelve..because you will need it ;-)
12:09 am
May 5, 2010
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Try the Joy of Cooking … it's a good present-day primer for basic cooking skills and the recent updates have decent illustrations. I'd go for a used copy and buy extras when they pop up at yard sales. My present version has been sufficiently manhandled that the spine is detaching. I'm also into collecting older basic cookbooks like the Meta Given's Encyclopedia of Cooking from the 50/60's … that was my cooking primer in the early 70's and it still has interesting recipes and techniques although canning has evolved better safety since then. Caution: collecting cookbooks has its own addiction level …….. ;^)
2:05 am
June 1, 2010
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Agree–Joy of Cooking and older (50's 60's) versions of BH&G. Also, do have access to any auntie or grandmother recipe stash? Those clipped goodies are usually great finds.
7:00 am
August 30, 2008
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'The American Woman's Cook Book' is a favorite of mine. You can read it online, here, http://www.archive.org/details…..00delirich . I loved it so much I bought a copy. You can find it on Ebay or Amazon. Great information found there. Also, "Housekeeping In Old West Virginia" is really interesting. It tells you how to make things I had never heard of- all kinds of ways to make ketchup, for instance. You can read it online, here, http://books.google.com/books/…..UEAAAAYAAJ – loved it so much I bought it off Amazon.
7:54 am
February 22, 2010
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My poor old BH&G cook book has taken me thru 41 years…it's almost as tattered as I am. I also use the 1969 (copyright) Betty Crocker hardback cookbook (looks like a textbook). I have over 100 cookbooks now and am still searching for the perfect one. 
9:58 am
October 18, 2010
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I learned to cook using my Grammy's Betty Crocker cookbook from the 50's. I still have it! And shelves full of others as well. But I still turn to good old BC when I need to remember how to bake a turkey, make pie crust, etc.
My newest one is a binder that I'm putting a lot of FarmBell recipes into…it is full already. I use that one the most now. jbalt009, you might want to start with doing that!
Hopefully we can convince Suzanne to do a cookbook next!
10:34 am
September 12, 2011
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Brookdale…I'm with you! If Suzanne were to do a cookbook, what a bestseller that would be!
I am a big fan of church cookbooks. Tried and true recipes, especially nice if it is YOUR church so you can call the sweet sister and ask her questions about her recipe.
10:58 am
May 7, 2011
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Glad to see that I am not the only one who collects cookbooks and recipes. I have a recipe program on my computer that once I have tried a recipe and it is deemed (by my taste testers) to be a success I save it to it. I, too, have recipes that my mother used frequently when she had to fix food for church & club activites.
11:48 am
December 21, 2011
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jbalt009 said:
Does anyone know of a book where I can find everything I need when it comes to making all sorts of food from scratch. Whether it be butter, apple jelly, mustard, mayonaisse etc.
Jbalt009,
My mother collects cookbooks and now has a floor to ceiling bookshelf full of them. I did not inherit the "collection" gene. I have the iddy bitty stack of the church fundraiser CB's which are always the best because they are time tested and usually fail proof, and the Betty Crocker hard cover I got as a wedding present that is now bound with packing tape … oh! and a few various CB's when my sister in law got into selling Pampered Chef. (love those quickies) But………………………
I would say start here on Farm Bell Recipes, a WEALTH of information,( that is actually what brought me to this site) or Google (as someone else said) whatever you are looking for and you will find anything you want and I mean anything you want!
No clutter, and the search is non physical. (If you could see my mom looking for a recipe you would better undertand this)
Just my opinion. : )
Lajoda
6:25 pm
January 5, 2012
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I have always loved to bake and have been collecting cookbooks on baking bread and growing herbs for the last few months. I found a great reference. My newest discovery source is….wait for it….Amazon.com! Not regular Amazon but the used books source where they show the format. I bought used books for as little as two cents plus the $3.99 for s&h. I only buy ones that are described as very good or excellent condition and I like hardback books instead of paperback. The used ones are 2 or three times cheaper than the new paperback ones. I haven't got burned yet. A lot of the books I buy are out of print and it's the only way to get a copy. I know a lot of people don't like Amazon. I used them a lot after I became ill and couldn't get out much. I hope it's okay to name them and hope it isn't against protocol.
8:26 pm
May 7, 2011
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I have picked up cookbooks at yard sales and have seen them at thrift stores.
10:05 pm
December 14, 2010
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If you come across a copy of Fanny Farmer's cookbook it is worth buying. Joy of Cooking is the most comprehensive that I have seen. I have many and most have a theme, fish and sea food, or an empthasis on family cooking or on baking, I have one that is soup and bread only.
10:45 am
September 12, 2011
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One of my favorite cookbooks is :Stories and Recipes of the Great Depression of the 1930's
and More From Your Kitchen Today, Vol. 1 (Stories & Recipes of the Great
Depression). They sell it on Amazon. I got my copy at a little bookstore in Idyllwyld, CA on vacation. The stories go so well with the recipes and give us an appreciation of our past and the wonderful and creative women (and men) who had the ability to make something out of nothing. One of my favorite stories in there was about a mother who could not find anything to can for her family for the winter. Nothing was available or growing but weeds. So she found some Lamb's Quarters and canned jars of those for the winter. It got them through when they had nothing else. I highly recommend this book for nostalgia if for nothing else.
also, check out the public library. They have a plethora of cookbooks that you can look through and try. that way if you find one you really love, then you can buy it. 
2:54 pm
August 30, 2008
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Going to go look for "Stories and Recipes…." right now! That sounds wonderful!
7:59 pm
May 16, 2011
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Suzanne, pretty, pretty please do a cookbook. I promise I will be one of the very first to purchase a copy. Occasionally when I'm looking for something to thumb through my first choice is a cookbook. I have quite an assortment of cookbooks, the most unusual and oldest being from 1867 called "Marjorie Daw in the Kitchen and What She Learned There". Makes for very interesting reading!
10:12 am
June 9, 2011
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I agree about Suzanne doing the cookbook, it's almost wrong that there isn't one already! I have so many of her recipes printed out and stacked on top of my cookbooks that I could make one!! I love old Julia Child recipes like the leek soup (vichyssoise), and roasted chicken. Any of her books are great, and I agree about Pampered Chef! One of my family's favorite meals is their's, french bread dough sliced open and stuffed with pizza toppings, pinched back together and twisted into kind of a knot, baked and served with pizza sauce to dip or pot over your plate. It's awesome! You can ever use Suzanne's french grandmother bread to make it!!
11:21 am
February 10, 2009
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I print them out too, but I went and got page protectors and have them in a loose leaf binder, in sections, tabbed so I can find them. I have other favorite recipes in there too, but honestly, most of them ARE Suzanne's recipes. I love it because there's lots of room for notes, and extra directions and information, (like where I bought certain ingredients etc) and I can take the page out in it's protector for easy reading, or even to take to the store for shopping.
In the back of the binder is weight and measure and equivalence charts, I'm good at most of them because my Mom used all that to help me with math and such, but I still need to look stuff up from time to time. Oh, and meat temp charts, and substitution notes too.
3:19 pm
January 5, 2012
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Those pocket sheets for photographs work great to store recipes printed on index cards. You can mix photos of special meals showing that particular dish in with the recipes. I even tucked in a couple of drawings the kids made or brought home while I was cooking through the years.
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