My Cookbook Collection

 

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

2 in 1 cocktail set
The 2-in-1 International Recipe Card Collection for Mixed Drinks and Hors D’Oeurves,  Random House (1977)

 

365 ways with hamburger
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)

 

All-Time Favorite Salads
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)

 

magical jell-o
Amazing Magical Jell-O Desserts: 72 Gelatin & Pudding Recipes Your Kids Will Enjoy General Foods (1977)

 

Are You Hungry Tonight?
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
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)
BBQs & picnics
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)

 

Bread Cook Book
Better Homes & Gardens Bread Cook Book Meredith Corporation (5th printing, 1968)

 

Burda International Cuisine Cook Book No. 2: Festive Menus (1978)

 

Great Restaurants USA
Campbell’s Great Restaurants Cookbook, U.S.A. Rutledge Books (1969)

 

casserole cookbook
Better Homes & Gardens Casserole Cookbook Meredith Publishing Company (7th printing, 1967)

 

celebrity cookbook
Celebrity Cookbook by Johna Blinn,  Moby Books (1981)

 

1965 Chamberlain Calendar of French Menus
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)

 

thanksgiving dishes 009
Cookindex Tested Recipe Institute, Inc. (1959)

 

Cooking for Two
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)

 

Cooking With Cheese
Better Homes & Gardens Cooking with Cheese Meredith Corporation (4th printing, 1968)

 

cook's choice
Cook’s Choice: A Collection of Favorite Recipes  Brandeis University National Women’s Committee (1967)

 

creative cooking course
The Creative Cooking Course, edited by Charlotte Turgeon (1975)

 

Dead Celebrity Cookbook
The Dead Celebrity Cookbook by Frank Decaro Health Communications, Inc. (2011)

 

dinner is served 003
Dinner is Served Marjon Promotions (1972 and 1973)

 

 

 

skillet cookbook
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)

 

casserole cookery
Family Circle Casserole Cookery Family Circle Magazine,  Arno Press, Inc. (1978)

 

Family Circle Library
Family Circle Illustrated Library of Cooking Volume 1 A-Bev, The Family Circle, Inc. (1972)

 

The Family Circle Meat Cookbook (1954)

 

outer banks recipes
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"
Better Homes & Gardens Fish and Seafood Cook Book,   Meredith Corporation (1971)

 

Fondue Cook Book
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
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)
GE Microwave Oven Cookbook
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)

 

 

groundhog
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)

 

stouffer
Here’s How by Stouffer’s,  The Stouffer Corporation (1958)

 

Sophia Loren in the kitchen surrounded by vegetables
In the Kitchen with Love by Sophia Loren Doubleday & Co. (1972)

 

Italian cookbook
Italian American Favorite Recipes: A Book of Favorite Recipes Compiled by the Friends & Members of the American Committee on Italian Migration

 

Jiffy Cooking
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)

 

joy of cooking
The Joy of Cooking Volume 1 by Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker,   Signet (year unknown)

 

joyce chen
Joyce Chen Cook Book by Joyce Chen,  Foreword by Paul Dudley White, M.D.,   J. B. Lippincott Company (1962)

 

joys of jello
The Joys of Jell-O,  General Foods Corporation (1963)

 

1980s Joys of Jell-O
The Joys of Jell-O Gelatin,  General Foods Corporation (1981)

 

liberace cooks
Liberace Cooks! By Liberace and Carol Traux Doubleday & Company (1970)

 

Loretta Lynn Cookbook
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)

 

lunchbrunch
Better Homes & Gardens Creative Cooking Library: Lunches and Brunches,  Meredith Publishing Company (1963)

 

mama's recipes
Mama’s Recipes: A Treasury of Hungarian-American Foods,  St. Elias Byzantine Catholic Church Munhall, PA (year unknown)

 

patten
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)

 

meals in minutes
Better Homes & Gardens Creative Cooking Library (C6): Meals in Minutes,   Meredith Publishing Company (1963)

 

Meat Cook Book
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
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)

 

presley cookbook
The Presley Family Cookbook by Vester Presley and Nancy Rooks,  Wimmer Brothers 8th printing (1989)

 

recipes that please
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)

 

Saints Cyril & Methodius Cookbook
75th Anniversary Jubilee Polish/American Cookbook, Saints Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church, McKees Rocks, PA (1985)

 

The San Francisco Dinner Party Cookbook, Menus from the San Francisco Cooking School by Judith Ets-Hokin, Houghton Mifflin Company (1975)

 

savoy cocktail book
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”

 

Shirley Jones Holiday Cards
Shirley Jones’ Favorite Holiday Recipes,  Ralph’s Grocery Stores (1984)

 

smirnoff brunch book
The Smirnoff Brunch Cookbook,  Introduction by S. I. Hayakawa,  A Benjamin Company/Rutledge Book (1971)

 

Snacks and Refreshments
Better Homes & Gardens Creative Cooking Library (C4): Snacks and Refreshments, Meredith Publishing Company (1963)

 

so good meals
Better Homes & Gardens Creative Cooking Library (C3):  So-Good Meals, Meredith Publishing Company (1963)

 

1973 cookbook
The Stouffer Cookbook of Great American Food & Drink Stouffer Corporation (1973)

 

Stump Creek (PA) Residents Cookbook 3rd Annual Homecoming July 3-4 1976

 

chinese cookbook
The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook by Gloria Bley Miller Grosset & Dunlap (1977 printing)

 

3riverscookbook
Three Rivers Cookbook Volume I, Child Health Association of Sewickley, Inc.   (Originally published 1973)

 

treasury
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)

 

vegetable cook book
Better Homes & Gardens Vegetable Cook Book Meredith Publishing Company (2nd printing, 1967)

 

williamsburg
The Williamsburg Cookbook complied by Letha Booth, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (1975)

 

encyclopedia of cookery
Woman’s Day Encyclopedia of Cookery – Volume 5 (1966)

 

Woman’s Day Encyclopedia of Cookery, Vol. 8

 

womans own
Woman’s Own 365 Menu Cookbook by Marguerite Patten,  The Hamlyn Publishing Group (1973) Inscription: Christmas 1977 To Mrs. Quonn–Enjoy! Enjoy! Lovingly, Edythe

 

Mixed Drink book
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

  1. 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!!

  2. 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

  3. 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.

        1. 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.

  4. 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.

      1. 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.

  5. 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)

  6. 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!

    1. 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?

          1. YAY! I need to get my ass over to the UK soon…if Europe will let us fucking Americans visit. HA!

    1. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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