Look What I Just Found!!!!

Earlier this week I posted my favorite cookbooks on the book page here on my blog, along with my very biased opinion on them. I've been cooking for a LONG time and have amassed a LARGE collection of cookbooks. I have thinned out the collection a few times, and have about 250 or so currently.

1950 Edition Betty Crocker Cook Book

One of my all time favorites is the 1950 edition of the Betty Crocker cookbook. I have a copy that belonged to my Grandmothers Cousin. It came complete with notes in the margins, old recipes from the newspaper and a few recipe cards tucked into various pages. All in all the book was in great shape and it holds some of my favorite recipes, ones I still make! Why? Because they are classics, things that haven't been improved upon. As the revised publications of this book came out it evolved with the current food trends of the times and adapted to a more quick and easy form of cooking using packaged foods, etc. Personally, it's not how I cook. Yes, old style can take a little longer, but if you've been doing it a long time, making a pie crust from scratch takes less time than going to the store and buying that stuff they sell in the refrigerator section and it only contains ingredients a six year old can read.

Today as I was scrolling through my activity feed on Etsy, I saw listed in a shop a book I easily recognized...Yep.. the 1950 edition of Betty Crocker! If you LOVE to cook.. I'd run and grab this gem! They did reprint the book a few years back and put it in a note book style format, I also have that one, I acquired it from my Grandmother, who purchased it when it came out, but honestly, it NEVER gets opened...I like my old, starting to fall apart at the binding, full of history, yellowing pages, antique copy! I do also have my Mothers copy from the mid-1960's which is literally held together by some string, it is missing a few pages, but I do still use it for a few recipes. That edition is also worth getting. It was before they really sold out to convenience. I know the current editions still have some recipes that do require actual cooking, but they are a far cry from where the books began.