As my cookbook collection has grown, I thought it would be nice to start cataloging them here as they appear on the blog. (I’d love to do the thing where I link back from the cookbook to the recipes that have appeared on the blog, but so many years in, that would take so. damn. long.)
I want to give a massive THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed to my strange addiction (especially those of you whom I have never met in real life). I am still gobsmacked over how generous yinz guys are!
So, welcome! Please, peruse my bookshelf. If you have a question, need a recipe, or would like to know more about any of the books, just let me know in the comments or email me yinzerella@gmail.com
The 2-in-1 International Recipe Card Collection for Mixed Drinks and Hors D’Oeurves, Random House (1977)
365 Ways to Cook Hamburger by Doyne Nickerson Doubleday & Company (1960)
500 Tasty Snacks–Ideas for Entertaining Culinary Arts Institute – Edited by Ruth Berolzheimer Consolidated Book Publishers (1950)
Better Homes and Gardens All-Time Favorite Salad Recipes Meredith Corporation 5th Printing (1984)
American Woman All-Time Favorites Cookbook edited by Vivian A. Wudske Paramount Publishing (1978)
Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Cook Book Featuring illustrations by Andy Warhol Doubleday & Company (1961)
Amazing Magical Jell-O Desserts: 72 Gelatin & Pudding Recipes Your Kids Will Enjoy General Foods (1977)
Are You Hungry Tonight? Elvis’ Favorite Recipes Compiled by Brenda Arlene Butler Bluewood Books (1992)
Australian Cooking for Today Edited by Anne Marshall Octopus Books (1977)
Baba’s Cook Book, Ken J. Linkiewich, AIFD, Publisher (1982) 1980 Canadian Florist of the Year
Benson & Hedges 100’s Presents Drink Recipes from 100 of the Greatest Bars (recipes selected and edited by Playboy Clubs International) Philip Morris Incorporated (1979)
Benson & Hedges 100’s presents 100 of the World’s Greatest Recipes by James Beard, Philip Morris Incorporated (1976)
Benson & Hedges presents Entertaining With Style: Recipes from Great American Restaurants, Philip Morris Incorporated (1980)The Best of Bon Appetit (1979)Better Homes & Gardens Creative Cooking Library (C8): Barbecues and Picnics, Meredith Publishing Company (1963)Betty Crocker’s Bisquick Cookbook (1973)
Betty Crocker’s Dinner in a Dish (1965)
The Betty Furness Westinghouse Cook Book, prepared under the direction of Julia Kiene Simon & Schuster, First Edition (1954) and The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer Little Brown and Company (1924) written in 1896
The Big Beautiful Book of Hors D’Oeuvres by Julia Weinberg, New Century Publishers (1980)
Better Homes & Gardens Bread Cook Book Meredith Corporation (5th printing, 1968)
Burda International Cuisine Cook Book No. 2: Festive Menus (1978)
Campbell’s Great Restaurants Cookbook, U.S.A. Rutledge Books (1969)
Better Homes & Gardens Casserole Cookbook Meredith Publishing Company (7th printing, 1967)
Celebrity Cookbook by Johna Blinn, Moby Books (1981)
The Chamberlain Calendar of French Menus (1965)
Chef Chu’s Distinctive Cuisine of China by Lawrence C.C. Chu, Harper & Row (1982)
Cocktails And Snacks by Robert and Anne London (1953)
Cookindex Tested Recipe Institute, Inc. (1959)
Better Homes & Gardens Cooking for Two Meredith Corporation (13th Printing, 1977) Inscription: Compliments of the Big Red Q Quickprint Center
Cooking With Astrology by Sydney Omarr & Mike Roy, The World Publishing Company (1969)
Better Homes & Gardens Cooking with Cheese Meredith Corporation (4th printing, 1968)
Cook’s Choice: A Collection of Favorite Recipes Brandeis University National Women’s Committee (1967)
The Creative Cooking Course, edited by Charlotte Turgeon (1975)
The Dead Celebrity Cookbook by Frank Decaro Health Communications, Inc. (2011)
Dinner is Served Marjon Promotions (1972 and 1973)
Electric Skillet Frypan Cookbook by Roberta Ames with drawings by Nathan Gluck Hearthside Press (1955)
The Elenian Club of New Orleans Cookbook (1985)
Esquire Cook-Book by the Editors of Esquire McGraw-Hill Book Co. (1955)
Family Circle Casserole Cookery Family Circle Magazine, Arno Press, Inc. (1978)
Family Circle Illustrated Library of Cooking Volume 1 A-Bev, The Family Circle, Inc. (1972)
The Family Circle Meat Cookbook (1954)
Favorite Recipes The Outer Banks Woman’s Club of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina Circulation Service, Inc. (1988)
Favorite Recipes of The Stars, Other Friends, and Us! Fashion Club of Butler, PA (1996)
Better Homes & Gardens Fish and Seafood Cook Book, Meredith Corporation (1971)
Better Homes & Gardens Fondue and Tabletop Cooking, Meredith Corporation (9th printing, 1972)
Foods of the World American Cooking: Creole and Acadian, Time-Life Books (1971)
Foods of the World Latin American Cooking, Time-Life Books (1968)
Foods of the World American Cooking: The Great West, Time-Life Books (1971)
Fresh Ideas from Velveeta, Kraft, Inc. (1986)
The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American by Jeff Smith William Morrow and Company (1986)Fun With Sea Food compiled by Mrs. Virginia Roeder and illustrated by Richard Q. Yardley. The Baltimore Sun (1960)General Electric Countertop Microwave Oven Cookbook (year unknown)
Good Housekeeping’s Appetizer Cookbook, Hearst Corporation (1958)
Good Housekeeping’s Hamburger & Hot Dog Book, Hearst Corporation (1958)
The Gourmet Cookbook, Vol. I Revised Edition – First Printing Gourmet Distributing Corporation (1965)
Gourmets & Groundhogs by Elaine Light, Illustrated by Ken Rundel, Second Edition Revised, Elaine Light Gray Printing Co. (1971)
Great Dinners from Life by Eleanor Graves Photographs by John Dominis Time-Life Books (1969)
Here’s How by Stouffer’s, The Stouffer Corporation (1958)
In the Kitchen with Love by Sophia Loren Doubleday & Co. (1972)
Italian American Favorite Recipes: A Book of Favorite Recipes Compiled by the Friends & Members of the American Committee on Italian Migration
Better Homes & Gardens Jiffy Cooking Meredith Publishing Company (1967)
The Joy of Chinese Cooking by Doreen Yen Hung Feng, Grosset & Dunlap (1971)– Inscription: “June, Best Wishes! Aurora & Bob Landel”
The Joy of Chinese Cooking by Lo Mei Hing, Giulia Marzotto Caotorta and Sun Tzi Hsi, Greenwich House (1983)
The Joy of Cooking Volume 1 by Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, Signet (year unknown)
Joyce Chen Cook Book by Joyce Chen, Foreword by Paul Dudley White, M.D., J. B. Lippincott Company (1962)
The Joys of Jell-O, General Foods Corporation (1963)
The Joys of Jell-O Gelatin, General Foods Corporation (1981)
Liberace Cooks! By Liberace and Carol Traux Doubleday & Company (1970)
Loretta Lynn’s Kitchen: Old Time Cooking Like My Mama Used to Make, Ranch, Inc. (2004)
The Love in the Afternoon Cookbook: Recipes From Your Favorite ABC-TV Soap Operas, by Jeanne Jones and Donna Swajeski, M. Evans & Company (1983)
Better Homes & Gardens Creative Cooking Library: Lunches and Brunches, Meredith Publishing Company (1963)
Mama’s Recipes: A Treasury of Hungarian-American Foods, St. Elias Byzantine Catholic Church Munhall, PA (year unknown)
Marguerite Patten’s Recipe Cards, Paul Hamlyn Ltd. (1967)
Maryland Seafood Cookbook III: Contemporary Cuisine, Office of Seafood Marketing, Maryland Department of Agriculture, (1982)
McCall’s Cooking School (2 binders), Xerox Education Publications (1985)
Better Homes & Gardens Creative Cooking Library (C6): Meals in Minutes, Meredith Publishing Company (1963)
Better Homes and Gardens Meat Cook Book Meredith Corporation (4th edition, 7th printing 1971)
The Meats Cook Book, from Southern Living Magazine, Oxmoor House Books (1971)
Miss Lillian and Friends: The Plains, Georgia. Family Philosophy and Recipe Book by Lillian Carter, as told to Beth Tartan and Rudy Hayes, A&W Publishers, 1977)
The New York Times Cook Book by Craig Claiborne, Harper & Row (1961)
The Original Mexicans Heublein, Inc. (1972)
Mike Kalina’s Pittsburgh Cookbook, Pina Books (1991)
Pennknoll Village Cook Book–A Book of Favorite Recipes compiled by the Penknoll Village Nursing Home, Everett, PA (1986)
Pillsbury’s Meat Cook Book (1969)
The Playboy Gourmet by Thomas Mario, Castle Books (1977) Inscription: “Merry Christmas to Steve…The All-Time Cedar Street Cook! Love, Janie
Playboy’s Host & Bar Book by Thomas Mario, Playboy (1971)
Potters’ Guild of Baltimore Cookbook (year unknown)
The Presley Family Cookbook by Vester Presley and Nancy Rooks, Wimmer Brothers 8th printing (1989)
Recipes That Please Compiled by the St. Alphonsus Mothers’ Club, Springdale, PA, Bev-Ron Publishing Company (1966)
Rival Crock-Pot Cooking by Marilyn Neill, Golden Press (1975)Robert Carrier’s Menu Planner (1984)Better Homes & Gardens Salad Book (1958)
Secret Ingredients by the Jewish Community Center of Harrison, Wintry Press (1977)
The San Francisco Dinner Party Cookbook, Menus from the San Francisco Cooking School by Judith Ets-Hokin, Houghton Mifflin Company (1975)
The Savoy Cocktail Book by Harry Craddock, Richard R. Smith, Inc (1930), Inscription says “A Gift from Gail to Father for Christmas in 1929 ~Jay R. Wells”
The Smirnoff Brunch Cookbook, Introduction by S. I. Hayakawa, A Benjamin Company/Rutledge Book (1971)
Better Homes & Gardens Creative Cooking Library (C4): Snacks and Refreshments, Meredith Publishing Company (1963)
Better Homes & Gardens Creative Cooking Library (C3): So-Good Meals, Meredith Publishing Company (1963)
The Stouffer Cookbook of Great American Food & Drink Stouffer Corporation (1973)
Stump Creek (PA) Residents Cookbook 3rd Annual Homecoming July 3-4 1976
The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook by Gloria Bley Miller Grosset & Dunlap (1977 printing)
Three Rivers Cookbook Volume I, Child Health Association of Sewickley, Inc. (Originally published 1973)
A Treasury of Great Recipes by Mary & Vincent Price Ampersand Press, First Edition (1965)
Veal Cookery by Craig Claiborne and Pierre Franey, Harper & Rowe(1978)
Better Homes & Gardens Vegetable Cook Book Meredith Publishing Company (2nd printing, 1967)
The Williamsburg Cookbook complied by Letha Booth, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (1975)
Woman’s Day Encyclopedia of Cookery – Volume 5 (1966)
Woman’s Day Encyclopedia of Cookery, Vol. 8
Woman’s Own 365 Menu Cookbook by Marguerite Patten, The Hamlyn Publishing Group (1973) Inscription: Christmas 1977 To Mrs. Quonn–Enjoy! Enjoy! Lovingly, Edythe
Wonderful Ways to Prepare Cocktails & Mixed Drinks by Jo Ann Shirley, Playmore, Inc. (1979)
Your Waring Cookbook: The Pleasure of Blending for the 7-Speed Blender, Waring Products Division, Dynamics Corporation of America (1970)
24 thoughts on “My Cookbook Collection”
Wow! Just found your blog. Very cool. As I was looking through the pics of some of the cookbooks you have, I was that my mom still has: Family Circle Illustrated Library of Cooking 1972. My siblings and I used to look through it and the recipe box playing house and pretend we were cooking. Thanks for the memory!!
Thank you for swinging by!!!
Hello, I have been searching for a year for a church cookbook and I see it is on your page here. Mama’s Recipes A traditional Hungarian-American foods. My grandmother passed this to me form 1960 and we remodeled our kitchen and pages from the book I am looking for wore torn out somehow. I would love to get this book or the recipes I am missing form you. Please let me know if you can help a girl out. I really want to keep the baking tradition on going with my family. I am looking for the COLD DOUGH recipes for nut rolls and apricot rolls. Thank You , Cheryl
I just stumbled upon your blog! Amazing. However I was wondering if you could tell me the recipe that is on the cover of Campbell’s Great Restaurants Cookbook, U.S.A.
I have been looking for it since I found it on Awful library books. If you could please pass it along that would be fantastic.
I will gladly look that up! Christine, please email me yinzerella@gmail.com so I remember to do so when I can tomorrow evening.
Thanks!
I never received an e-mail from you.
I am so sorry. I just sold my house and moved. All of my cookbooks are packed away. The past couple of months have been a blur and I haven’t had internet access at home for nearly a week. I apologize.
I would be more than happy to contribute to your collection. I have a 1971 Better Crocker Recipe Card Library that could use a good home. At the moment, it hides in a cabinet above the fridge, only brought out when I feel like staring at the photo of the Cheeseburger Pie.
Hello!
I can’t remember if it is the Betty Crocker or Better Homes & Gardens cards that I own.
Now I want to make the Cheeseburger Pie.
Well, if it is card #2 in the “Entertaining on a Shoestring” section, then you have yourself a Cheeseburger Pie.
If not:
’71 Betty Crocker Recipe Card LibraryCheeseburger Pie
Ingredients:
1 stick or 1/2 packet of our pie crust
1 pound Ground Beef
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
1 can (8 oz) tomato sauce
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped green pepper
Cheese Toping (Below)
1/2 cup chili sauce
Heat over to 425º. Prepare pastry for 9-inch One-crust Pie as directed on package. In medium skillet, cook and stir meat until brown. Drain off fat. Stir in salt, oregano, pepper, crumbs, 1/2 cup of the tomato sauce, the onion and greed pepper. Turn into pastry-lined pie pan. Spread Cheese Topping over filling.
Bake about 30 minutes. Cut into wedges. Still together remaining tomato sauce and the chili sauce; serve with pie. 6 – 8 servings.
Cheese Topping:
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon each salt, dry mustard, and Worcestershire sauce
2 cups shredded natural Cheddar cheese (about 8 oz)
Beat egg and milk; stir in seasonings and cheese.
Hampden in Baltimore has some vintage shops, and I love going to Main Street in Ellicott City. They have a wide variety of antiques and antique shops! (and new shops too)
Hi! I just discovered your blog and I think it’s great! Do you find some of the books for your collection at local antique shops? There are tons in Maryland, and VA!
I find them EVERYWHERE. Actually, a lot of them are given to me by friends and readers. I really haven’t bought any locally. The ones I’ve purchased have been in PA. Do you recommend any stores in MD?
Wow. Thank you. That was a great scrolling experience. I’m especially interested in the Chamberlain French menu cookbook. His books fascinate me but I’ve never seen that one.
Thanks. That is only a portion of my books. I am so lazy I haven’t posted them all. I just followed your blog!
Maybe you need an (unpaid) intern LOL. And thanks for following me. I want to follow you to but am looking for where to do it– the usual thing isn’t popping up.
Well FANCY you two knowing each other! This is something that makes me VERY, VERY happy! In a weird co-incidence there is a photo of EACH OF YOU FABULOUS WOMEN in the same blog post…
YAY! I need to get my ass over to the UK soon…if Europe will let us fucking Americans visit. HA!
I don’t even want to think about the unspoken subtexts of “Liberace Cooks.” Ugghhhhhhhh…
Well, I have made his “sticky buns.” And there is a whole section that goes on and on about how much Liberace loves sausage.
SERIOUSLY.
I need to do a write-up on that.
OMG.
Nice collection! I don’t know if it’s genetic or not, but I definitely have a tendency to collect things. My mom has the habit of saving things that “might be useful someday”, but she doesn’t choose things because they are of interest to her. I, on the other hand, have a wide variety of things that I think are pretty or useful or interesting. Or shiny. Shiny gets me every time.
And I want that Savoy Cocktail book! I love the stylized look of that era.
I love shiny, too.
And TACKY!
You can find copies of the Savoy online. I think they also did a reissue at some point.
My mom has the Gloria Bley Miller Chinese cookbook. I saw it on your shelf and recognized it instantly! My favorite cookbook is probably the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. I use the most recent one, but I have several versions, including the one my mom used when we were growing up. Good stuff, there.
Wow! Just found your blog. Very cool. As I was looking through the pics of some of the cookbooks you have, I was that my mom still has: Family Circle Illustrated Library of Cooking 1972. My siblings and I used to look through it and the recipe box playing house and pretend we were cooking. Thanks for the memory!!
Thank you for swinging by!!!
Hello, I have been searching for a year for a church cookbook and I see it is on your page here. Mama’s Recipes A traditional Hungarian-American foods. My grandmother passed this to me form 1960 and we remodeled our kitchen and pages from the book I am looking for wore torn out somehow. I would love to get this book or the recipes I am missing form you. Please let me know if you can help a girl out. I really want to keep the baking tradition on going with my family. I am looking for the COLD DOUGH recipes for nut rolls and apricot rolls. Thank You , Cheryl
I just stumbled upon your blog! Amazing. However I was wondering if you could tell me the recipe that is on the cover of Campbell’s Great Restaurants Cookbook, U.S.A.
I have been looking for it since I found it on Awful library books. If you could please pass it along that would be fantastic.
I will gladly look that up! Christine, please email me yinzerella@gmail.com so I remember to do so when I can tomorrow evening.
Thanks!
I never received an e-mail from you.
I am so sorry. I just sold my house and moved. All of my cookbooks are packed away. The past couple of months have been a blur and I haven’t had internet access at home for nearly a week. I apologize.
I would be more than happy to contribute to your collection. I have a 1971 Better Crocker Recipe Card Library that could use a good home. At the moment, it hides in a cabinet above the fridge, only brought out when I feel like staring at the photo of the Cheeseburger Pie.
Hello!
I can’t remember if it is the Betty Crocker or Better Homes & Gardens cards that I own.
Now I want to make the Cheeseburger Pie.
Well, if it is card #2 in the “Entertaining on a Shoestring” section, then you have yourself a Cheeseburger Pie.
If not:
’71 Betty Crocker Recipe Card LibraryCheeseburger Pie
Ingredients:
1 stick or 1/2 packet of our pie crust
1 pound Ground Beef
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
1 can (8 oz) tomato sauce
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped green pepper
Cheese Toping (Below)
1/2 cup chili sauce
Heat over to 425º. Prepare pastry for 9-inch One-crust Pie as directed on package. In medium skillet, cook and stir meat until brown. Drain off fat. Stir in salt, oregano, pepper, crumbs, 1/2 cup of the tomato sauce, the onion and greed pepper. Turn into pastry-lined pie pan. Spread Cheese Topping over filling.
Bake about 30 minutes. Cut into wedges. Still together remaining tomato sauce and the chili sauce; serve with pie. 6 – 8 servings.
Cheese Topping:
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon each salt, dry mustard, and Worcestershire sauce
2 cups shredded natural Cheddar cheese (about 8 oz)
Beat egg and milk; stir in seasonings and cheese.
Hampden in Baltimore has some vintage shops, and I love going to Main Street in Ellicott City. They have a wide variety of antiques and antique shops! (and new shops too)
Hi! I just discovered your blog and I think it’s great! Do you find some of the books for your collection at local antique shops? There are tons in Maryland, and VA!
I find them EVERYWHERE. Actually, a lot of them are given to me by friends and readers. I really haven’t bought any locally. The ones I’ve purchased have been in PA. Do you recommend any stores in MD?
Wow. Thank you. That was a great scrolling experience. I’m especially interested in the Chamberlain French menu cookbook. His books fascinate me but I’ve never seen that one.
Thanks. That is only a portion of my books. I am so lazy I haven’t posted them all. I just followed your blog!
Maybe you need an (unpaid) intern LOL. And thanks for following me. I want to follow you to but am looking for where to do it– the usual thing isn’t popping up.
Well FANCY you two knowing each other! This is something that makes me VERY, VERY happy! In a weird co-incidence there is a photo of EACH OF YOU FABULOUS WOMEN in the same blog post…
http://www.silverscreensuppers.com/vincent-price/vincent-price-er-at-abertoir
Jx
YAY! I need to get my ass over to the UK soon…if Europe will let us fucking Americans visit. HA!
I don’t even want to think about the unspoken subtexts of “Liberace Cooks.” Ugghhhhhhhh…
Well, I have made his “sticky buns.” And there is a whole section that goes on and on about how much Liberace loves sausage.
SERIOUSLY.
I need to do a write-up on that.
OMG.
Nice collection! I don’t know if it’s genetic or not, but I definitely have a tendency to collect things. My mom has the habit of saving things that “might be useful someday”, but she doesn’t choose things because they are of interest to her. I, on the other hand, have a wide variety of things that I think are pretty or useful or interesting. Or shiny. Shiny gets me every time.
And I want that Savoy Cocktail book! I love the stylized look of that era.
I love shiny, too.
And TACKY!
You can find copies of the Savoy online. I think they also did a reissue at some point.
My mom has the Gloria Bley Miller Chinese cookbook. I saw it on your shelf and recognized it instantly! My favorite cookbook is probably the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. I use the most recent one, but I have several versions, including the one my mom used when we were growing up. Good stuff, there.