[LMB] AKICOTL: Cookbook?

[Susan Fox]

>
> > On 27/04/07, PAT MATHEWS <mathews55 at msn.com> wrote:
> > I am older, single, and live alone - I will make
> > recipes for 4 and eat them
> > several times running, but what I'm looking for is
> > a cookbook with - (1)
> > simple! (2) healthy (whole foods, fresh foods)
> > etc)
> > (3) traditional! recipes. 
>   
Honestly, you cannot do better than my favorite standby, THE JOY OF COOKING.  The new edition fixed a lot of the "updates" to the previous one. ::eyeroll::  I call it "the tech manual of the kitchen" because if you actually follow the directions TO THE LETTER, you will actually get what the recipe title says you will get.  No, really.


Raye recommends:
>The cookbook I've been using recently, 'The
>Presbyterian Women's Missionary Association Cookbook',
>fits your criteria.  

I collect all kinds of home-town/church/school cookbooks.  Every blessed one of them has at least one GEM amongst the repetitions of jello moulds and seven-layer taco dip.  If anybody on this list has one to peddle, I'm an easy prospect.

Raye adds:
>Another option is, if there's anyone in your family
>with a reputation for cooking, even if they were a
>couple of generations back, to ask their branch of
>your family if your family has a 'family cookbook'. 

Every family should do this.  Mine was on my web site... which I definitely need to update and get back on line, thank you very much for the reminder.  Some of the recipes therein are not exactly "gourmet" but will definitely reproduce the tastes of my childhood.  Daddy's chili is mostly out of cans but I won't eat anyone else's.

Time to noodge Ginnilee about getting the Lois List's family cookbook moving again, eh?

Not necessarily cheap and easy but of possible interest to this group:  I also need to pimp this fandom family collection, "The Official Manual for Spice Cadets" edited by LASFS regular Karl Lembke, published for the occasion of the 64th World Science Fiction convention. The theme of the convention was the Space Academy, and the members were official space cadets. This is the cookbook for SPICE cadets.  Of course I've got stuff in there.  Also some really interesting ancient Fannish recipes, such as "Blog," the party punch of Minneapolis fandom before the word was hijacked for a completely different meaning.  http://www.lulu.com/content/351861

Bon Appetit!
Susan Fox / Ma Foxti
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