Cookbook Collections

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Recently I've done a little reorganizing of my cookbooks

and came across this one I had forgotten.



It was my grandmother's and copyrighted in 1933.

A real "vintage" cookbook...

...with "vintage" ideas.

Can you image this spread as a morning's baking???

I have to admit I never reach for this book when I'm

searching for a recipe.

When I moved into Buttermilk Cottage

I did a MAJOR downsizing.

One of the things to go was a

huge cookbook collection.

I was recently divorced, Kate had gone off to college,

I was starting a new life in a smaller home

and decided the cookbooks could go.

However, Grandma's book stayed with me.

Here are a couple I have used a lot over the years,

which were also spared the cut.

You can tell by the torn cover,

this is a very well used one.

My high school home economics class

sold these as a fund raiser.

The recipe book I most often reach for today is this one.

It's a red, loose leaf notebook that holds all my "keepers."

Rather than a bookcase full of reference cookbooks,

I now seem to get new recipes from friends, blogs,

cooking shows, magazines, and the newspaper.

Once tried, if I think I'd ever make the dish again,

the recipe gets typed up and added to my red notebook.

It's a "keeper"!

I know this looks nice and tidy,

but I have to admit the number of recipes that inspire me

come along much faster than I can get them cooked or baked.

Tucked in under my notebook is a file folder with all those,

"I want to try that...someday" recipes.

So many recipes, so little time.

Do you have a favorite cookbook

for which you most often reach?

This week I'm linking to a vintage cottage cooking party at

Etsy Cottage Style