where did you find the joy of cooking book?
On Jan 31, 2012, at 4:40 PM, Nicole Massey wrote: > The Joy of Cooking is a must. It's more than a cookbook, its' a cooking > textbook, with a lot of technique in it. > > Betty crocker's cookbook is a similar one. Get it through Bookshare. > > If you can find it the 1918 Fannie Farmer cookbook is wonderful. It's the > last one she put together before her death, and it has a lot of the basics > in it. > There was a wonderful little book my ex found called The Can Opener > Cookbook. It's vintage, from when housewives were just starting to use a lot > of canned goods, but it kept things simple. If you can find it, scan it and > make it available for Bookshare so we can have access to it, and if I find > it first (mine got stolen) I'll get it up there. > I love the Foods of the World series from Time-Life. They haven't reissued > them yet, but hopefully they will some day. If they don't I'm working on > collecting them. > There's a great book called "Recipes from the backs of Boxes, Bottles, Cans, > and Jars" that has a lot of those things you find on a package, and I'm > planning on scanning my copy and putting it up on Bookshare as soon as I > find my big book of recipes. > I recently found a great book on Indian (dots, not feathers) cuisine called > Curry: A tale of Cooks and Conquerors, by Lizzie Collingham, which both > deals with how East Indian cuisine came about and some of the recipes > typical of the cuisine. I haven't made any of them yet, but it was a great > listen. NLS has it, and it's downloadable on BARD if you have a digital > player > For those of a zymurgical bent, (wine making) there's Acton & Duncan's book, > Making Mead. I love this book, and I hope to get it scanned soon. It's > written from a British perspective, but other than the fact that Heather > honey is hard to get in the Americas it'll work. I've made a lot of good > honey wines from it. The wimemaker's recipe handbook, by Raymond massaccesi > is also interesting, and it's another one I hope to have available soon on > Bookshare. And for something different there's Cider by Annie prouslx and > lew Nichols, which is a great book on making ciders of all kinds. > For something without the octane I got a lot out of Cresswell's book, > Homemade Root Beer and Soda Pop. It's another one I plan to scan soon and > put up on Bookshare. > > Sorry that a lot of these aren't blind accessible yet, but if I can get a > bit of sighted assistance I can locate them and run them through the trusty > HP Scanjet and they'll be around for y'all to benefit from soon. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nancy Martin > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CnD] recommended cookbooks > > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to know what cookbooks and cooking gadgets you find the most > helpful. If you'd rather write me off list, that's ok. > > Thanks in advance, > > Nancy Martin > > Oklahoma > > > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark Gwen Givens Composed on Gwen's MacBook Pro "A dog has many friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue." --- Anonymous ---information for gwen [email protected] _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
