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12:22 am
September 30, 2010
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Hello all,
I am trying to find information on an old (my sister would take offense to that term, heehee) cookbook.
She has told me is was published by the Hershberg Company (not sure of spelling, could also have been Hershberger) and she had many favorite recipes in there. A recent house fire has calimed all her cookbooks & recipes & I would love to find either a copy for her or somewhere that I could download some of the recipes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Annette
she said the company used to sell all types of home and farming items (sounds a little like an Anderson's or Sear's back when the catalog was "the" way to shop)
8:07 am
October 17, 2008
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How old is old?
I have found that Hershberger is a HUGE Ohio Amish name… but I cannot find an old "catalog" type of business. Many Hershbergers have written cookbooks and had them published. Wondering if that was the type of cookbook she had?
8:07 am
January 21, 2011
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Hi Annette. Do you know the name of the cookbook?
8:33 am
June 5, 2010
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Like CindyP said, Hersberger is bigtime Amish. Perhaps you could start with the info below if this sounds like the kind of recipes needing to be replaced. Perhaps she will find even more favorites. I hate to hear about fires – so devastating :(
Hershberger, Alma. Country cookbook: old favorites from the Amish community Dover, Delaware. Dover, Del.: [John J. Hershberger], 1988-89. Pp. 100. EMC.
Quail Hollow Candles:
Our Amish cookbook, from Alma's Kitchen, features recipes from Amish homes across Holmes County, Ohio, compiled by Alma Hershberger. This year we also have a Mennonite cookbook from the United Daysprings Mennonite Church in Berlin, Ohio. All three recipe books can be found for sale at The Quail Hollow Candle Factory & Gift Shop.
Click here for directions and store hours.
8:38 am
April 1, 2009
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Anette. if you do find the name of the cookbook you are looking for, please let us know, I have a huge cookbook collection that goes back well over 60 years, I am trying to downsize my collection, if I have it, you are most welcome to it, we live quite close to one another. I would be happy to send it to you.
9:57 am
January 1, 2010
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Me too, I have 100's of cookbooks that I've collected over 40 yrs.. I collect alot of Amish cookbooks,if there is recipes that she needs I'd be happy to copy some for your sister. I lost a recipe that my mom invented and wrote down on a recipe card for a perogi with different cheeses you roll out. I haven't found it yet, but I'm still looking for it. I still have lots of stuff I'm sorting out of my Mom's estate.
10:44 am
August 6, 2010
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Try abebooks.com. It is a network of used book stores, you can put in title, or author, or keywords.
I have never failed to find what I was looking for at that site. If you have a book addiction problem, please, please, don't go there. 
11:20 am
April 1, 2009
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sparrowgrass, now I have to go there–just to look. I started collecting cookbooks when I was 15 and then inherited my Mothers collection, we have many book cases full in the basement, I have offered many times to give several of them away, but the younger gals just use the Internet, I always just enjoyed going through them and looking at the different recipes.
12:07 pm
January 21, 2011
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Plus if they were your moms she may have wrote in the margin or something.. I just love the old cookbooks.
1:55 pm
September 30, 2010
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Thank you ladies soooo much!
I concider myself "the younger generation" (under 40, barely!) but I do have an addiction for cook books! I continue to clean out old books I don't use, but those that I find a few recipes I like I hang on to! I still have my first cookbook, Holly Hobby, and I hope to inspire my son to try cooking with it.
My sister is off @ a baby shower right now, but I'll ask her this evening. In the meantime I'll go check out the book site suggested (i will not buy for myself, i will not buy for myself, i will not buy for myself, ohm…ohm…) Hee Hee!
Annette
3:11 pm
August 6, 2010
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My apologies for posting the website. I'll never do it again. 
3:53 pm
September 19, 2010
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I've used abcbooks.com on a number of occasions when I was looking for an out-of-print book. They've nearly always had what I was looking for.
I admit that if I'm looking for a recipe, I usually look on the Internet (it's how I found CITR!), but it doesn't replace curling up with a cookbook and paging it through it. I have an old cookbook from the local Grange where I grew up. The contributors are women I remember from my childhood – all now deceased. I would never give that cookbook up, even thought I don't actually use any of the recipes. The continuity of food preparation is just very grounding.
4:54 pm
July 24, 2010
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Urbanite–I so agree with you. I have cookbooks compiled by relatives churches or organizations they belonged to, and tho some of these relatives are no longer living it is like a visit with them each time I read through the books. Also, I love to read similar cookbooks from other areas of the country, it is like a visit to that area and a way to get to know the people a little bit.
Sorry, I've strayed from the topic a bit (again). 
Hope Annette can find the cookbook for her sister!
6:33 pm
October 17, 2008
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I'm wondering if it WAS one of those local cookbooks she had (they are the best for tried and true recipes!)…and Hershberger Company (of some sort as there seems to be LOTS) gathered all the recipes and had it published.
Hopefully her sister can tell us!
7:24 pm
January 21, 2011
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I know! I want to see it now too! :)
1:44 pm
August 6, 2010
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There was an old camping/outdoors store called Herters that published cookbooks–would that be it?
1:59 pm
October 17, 2008
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omg, sparrowgrass, i think you're right! they were a mail order catalog business out of Minnestoa.
http://www.abebooks.com/servle…..0&y=0
3:29 pm
June 1, 2010
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this may be skating a little close to the edge of the topic, but I'd like to make a plea for passing along information. Like many books, cookbooks are reissued now and again. A young cook may be temped to buy the new edition to replace the cookbook with the stained pages and the separated binding. However, they may find out too late that their favorite recipe isn't in the new edition. Don't ask how I know!
5:54 pm
December 28, 2008
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Good advice, bonita.
My personal favorite bookseller is Edward R. Hamilton. BUT I must print a disclaimer here – they sell every kind of book you can imagine, some which I would never allow young eyes to see, or even read some of the titles, so be cautious how you search and/or with whom you share this info, if certain sensibilities are an issue. I just avoid looking at some sections, and thoroughly enjoy the other categories. (Clue: Art books go well beyond the study of the great masters…)
Here is the link for cookbooks, but you still need to click on a type of cookbook. They have so many!
http://www.edwardrhamilton.com…..t1/ck.html
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