Got some new cookbooks.

[coloradoclyde]

stopped at a thrift store today and picked up 2 new 18th century and 19th century related cookbooks..
The first was; "Shaker recipes and formulas for cooks and homemakers".

The second was;
" More than Moonshine" Appalachian recipes and recollections.

At first glance, there is a lot of old recipes in them....should make for good reading.

 

[satx78247]

Sounds GREAT. - I'm fascinated with "the younger generation" who don't like cookbooks & always are looking about on the "Worldwideweird" for recipes that most any comprehensive cookbook has for the "opening to the proper page".

Otoh, that dislike of cookbooks makes them really CHEAP at thrift shops. = I recently bought 9 nice ones for 5.99 plus tax.

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

Those two cost me .50 cents each.....

A couple months ago I found the neatest cook book yet...
The Polaris snowmobile company's employees recipe's cookbook....
It's as thick as a law book and has some really good recipes in it.....

 

[coloradoclyde]

Some of the Shaker recipes are even dated in the 1800's.... :shocked2:

 

[coloradoclyde]

I'm fascinated with "the younger generation" who don't like cookbooks.

Ya, I don't get the junk food generation either....

My grandmother taught me to cook when I was very young.. By age 6 I already had several cookbooks and my own recipe file...

 

[satx78247]

I was taught to cook by my mother, her 2 sisters & my governess, while sitting on a tall stool at 5-6 years old.

Years later when I went off to school, I was the ONLY one in our dorm suite of 8 guys who COULD cook anything more complicated than scrambled eggs.
(I cooked, they bought the groceries.)
Fwiw, I ended up teaching 4 of the guys "survival cooking", so that they could cook reasonably simple things once they were "out on their own".

yours, satx

 

[bender20]

Yeah I'm a 28 year old male and I can cook which is a rarity. My mom forced all three of us boys to cook supper atleast once a week. I remember at 10 we just had to help mom but we planned the meal by 12 mom was just supervising the stove and the oven and by 14/15 we were flying solo in the kitchen. This involved finding a recipie/recipies in the cookbooks, shopping for the ingredients, cooking and cleaning up. Now I love to cook but work doesn't always give me enough time to really enjoy it. What is really fun to me is when I've harvested everything that goes into the meal. Nothing so satisfying.

 

[satx78247]

Understood. = SMART Mom!!!

Fwiw, one of my suitemates didn't know how to make TOAST when he moved in.- A year later, I gave up trying to teach him to cook competently, though he did learn to fix bacon, eggs & toast but little else.

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

Just read through the Shaker book.....It's a keeper. Lots of interesting recipies....:grin:

 

[satx78247]

GOOD. ENJOY.

Fyi, one of the books that I got in "the 5.99 sack deal" was a 260 page cookbook published by the Historic Jamestown Women's Cooperative & it has GOOD-looking old recipes.

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

The treasure is out there if you know where to dig.... :thumbsup:

 

[satx78247]

Much of it is just LUCK, I suspect.

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

Yep!...Lots of luck, but it also helps to pay attention to what's under your nose...

 

[sidelock]

Thomas Jefferson once said,"I believe in luck and the harder I work the more I have".

 

[satx78247]

Both of us has "a thing for" thrift stores & when on vacation we used to check out every one each place that we went. = The stores on Oak Island being my favorite, as the RICH "tourists" often leave GREAT things behind & those things end up in a thrift shop.

EXAMPLE: A couple of years ago, my adult daughter ended up finding an "as new" un-sheared/natural beaver car-coat for 25.oo & that we later found out had cost far over 1,000.oo at a NY furrier. - It fits her perfectly.

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

EXAMPLE: A couple of years ago, my adult daughter ended up finding an "as new" un-sheared/natural beaver car-coat for 25.oo & that we later found out had cost far over 1,000.oo at a NY furrier. - It fits her perfectly.

yours, satx

See!....Beaver did shine again... :haha: :hatsoff:

 

[satx78247]

Indeed beaver did/DOES.
(My daughter looks like a MILLIONAIRE's daughter in it.)

yours, satx

 

[tenngun]

My Grand father was a trapper bear hunter and logger in the north west around 1900. After he married and the economy went south he took his family to Wisconsin. He developed cancer and was laid up with it for years. My grand mother did door to door sales and spent a lot of time on the road. My grandfather insisted his boys knew how to cook and do at least simple sewing.
My Father insisted I and my brothers learned.
I grew up with boys that camped and hunted. We would slip out and made some By-God nasty stuff over the fire, but we learned.
When I joined the navy this country boy was surprised to learn most of the boys in boot camp didn't know how to cook, fold laundry, make a bed, do the stuff we all did growing up.

 

[satx78247]

Understood.

As I said, I shared the suite in school DAZE who didn't know how to make TOAST. - Can you imagine??

yours, satx

 

[Katahdin]

I like the cook books from the Depression and the War/Rationed years,,,how to make a meal fit for a king out of stuff Fido would pass up.
Amazing what can be made and what can be substitutes for just about everything.
Good thing about being the cook,,you make what you want,the way you want it.