/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12802759]

Who else loves collecting these sorts of cookbooks? Local and church cookbooks, club cookbooks. All sorts of unbelievable family recipes tucked away in them, and you don't have to hunt through insufferable mommyblogs to find weird shit.

[Anonymous No.12802770]

>>12802759
I've got a few. My favorite is the one from a Catholic School fundraiser in the 60s. Lots of good Portuguese and Italian stuff in there. The other one I have is from a protestant church and its just a plethora of Midwestern casseroles inspired by cans of Campbell's soup.

[Anonymous No.12802794]

>>12802770
>My favorite is the one from a Catholic School fundraiser in the 60s. Lots of good Portuguese and Italian stuff in there.

Interesting. Any notable desserts?

[Anonymous No.12802882]

>>12802759
if I have the time, I always flip through the cookbooks at thrift stores.

[Anonymous No.12802899]

>>12802794
Uh yeah pic rel. Top one is potato cake and is actually my grandmother's contribution. You're lucky because my dad actually has a bunch of these at his house and I'm there right now. I'll link the pic of some a found real quick

[Anonymous No.12802906]

>>12802899

[Anonymous No.12802912]

>>12802759
I've got a bunch my grandmother collected over the years, one church book from the old ladies of the 1960s too.

[Anonymous No.12802919]

>>12802899

That's exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of, because I had just looked at one the other day that had mashed potato cookies.

[Anonymous No.12802941]

>>12802919
Its fucking dank bro. My fav cake. Everyone in my family macks down on it. There will never be any leftovers to take home if you make it for a party.

[Anonymous No.12802985]

>>12802941

I'm guessing that the mashed potato (like in potato bread) makes it really moist and probably a bit fudgy.

[Anonymous No.12803010]

>>12802985
Yeah its very dense. It tastes like spicy dark chocolate. Almost kinda like a brownie. I like it unforsted and left out til it gets a nice dry crumble and I drink a pint of milk with it.

[Anonymous No.12803285]

>>12802899
>>12803010
Can you flesh out the directions a little? For example, idk what 'fold' as a verb in this context means.

[Anonymous No.12803405]

>>12803285
Basically your well beaten egg whites should be frothy and aerated like a sugar less meringue so when you add them to the mix you just want to gently "fold" them in not stirring anymore and deflating the aeration, but just enough that it is a mixture. A few big slow laps around the bowl usually do the trick.

[Anonymous No.12803429]

>>12802882

>Lebowitz
>Stein

Every time.

[Anonymous No.12803486]

>>12802794
papist dick cheese salad

[Anonymous No.12803534]

>>12803486
NOT AGAIN

[Anonymous No.12803565]

>>12803486
That looks Mormon or something desu

[Anonymous No.12803582]

>>12803486

Aunt Myrna strikes again. I'm going to try it, just for fun.

[Anonymous No.12803611]

>>12803486
do americans really......

[Anonymous No.12803670]

I collect old cook books and have one from a west virgina juinor league and a Nashville junior league.

[Anonymous No.12803688]

>>12803670
>Ladies' Home Journal

based.

[Anonymous No.12803704]

>>12803670
based

[Anonymous No.12803753]

>>12803486
Horrifying. You can tell he is somehow surprised that it tastes bad, at the end.

[Anonymous No.12803856]

>>12803753

You must not know Jack.

[Anonymous No.12803997]

>>12802759
I don't actively collect them and some are kind of like the cheapest things you can throw together for a potluck and kind of bleh, some a real insight into the regional immigrant cooking, but there are some really good ones in my handmedown collection.

Skysteppers was the "wive's" club of Delta Pilots once upon a time, when they all hung out, traveled together on their passes and forced early retirements at 60, and the ladies were something like Junior League, part charitable but mostly social gathering stuff like playing bridge and dressing up, generally a full season of this or that parties to do together, from tennis to holiday parties. I'm going to say these contain some very nice recipes, some of which I cook today.

My other grandmother was naturally good at all of her cooking and she was quite thrifty, growing up in Depression poverty to a widow of 6 girls. She maintained her no nonsense even when she was financially well off in her later years. A few years past I stumbled upon Depression Cooking with Clara on youtube (96 yr old) and felt like she was a similar soul as this grandmother. Clara has cheap pans, and lots of stories during her recipe walk throughs. Cozy as real time with Grandma. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5tXODF4of0

[Anonymous No.12804103]

>>12803997

I like Clara's weekend cookie video. She does it by feel, and there's nothing special going on.

[Anonymous No.12804898]

I've collected dozens of these. Fascinating little time capsules.

[Anonymous No.12805069]

these are from an anon on here.

[Anonymous No.12805072]

>>12805069

[Anonymous No.12805090]

>>12803997
Clara's been dead a long time now, anon. Sorry.

[Anonymous No.12805148]

>>12802899
Gonna make a real gay post real quick
It's really heartwarming seeing people post these, this is exactly what the people who submitted them to these cookbooks would have hoped for. Seeing the name attached to it makes me imagine my grandma or great-aunt with all their friends baking at church for fellowship hour after the sermon
Anyway, neat

[Anonymous No.12805195]

>>12803997
Not as cheap as you think, this Babylon 5 cookbook cost a pretty penny and the faggot seller tried to rip me off but I made so many complaints on Amazon that he finally sent it.
That was about two years ago and I'll still make complaints about that faggot for the fun of it.

[Anonymous No.12805209]

I've got one from a college sorority my mom used to be in, she wrote it and about half the recipes in it. I'll have to go find it.

[Anonymous No.12805212]

>>12805148
agreed, fren.

[Anonymous No.12805216]

>>12805148
Cheers!

[Anonymous No.12805779]

>>12802759
Are you that anon that posted that lesbian cookbook from like ages ago?