Hi, I collect cook books and I was wondering , How many cook books do you have? and what one do you use the most or is your Favorite?

I have about 200 cook books in my collection. I dont have one I use the most. But If I had to pick on . It would have to be my Joy of cooking. I have my grandmothers very first Betty croker cook book and I love it.

 Hi, I have about 50 plus cooking magazines. I have several that are fundraiser C.B.'s from churches and I mostly use them and the free cooking magazine, Food & Family from Kraft. I'd like to have a Betty Crocker one. Please keep posting, this can be interesting

I just bought another cook book at a yard sale,my favorite place to buy them.  It's "The Best of Country Cooking" Printed by "Reiman Publications, L.P." it's dated 1993. I keep watching for a Betty Crocker one, I guess people "keep" that one

hi granna2 i am happy for you i have some back in the 20's ,30's,40's and one of my 1950's is betty crocker  i really like that one,i have cooks on stagecoach,hill billy cook books,souper recipes with campbells,.i cant tell you all the recipes in all my cook books. it makes me feel good to see a recipe i heard of of my grandmothers made.i never got to know either one of them.

Hi happycooking7, Are any of your cook books from your Grandmothers? I never thought about that. One of my Aunts got most of my Grandmothers personal things, I might ask her if there were any cook books in the things. I did get a recipe from a friend of my Grandmothers ,that she told my it was my Grandmother's favprite cake. It's " Old Fashioned Lemonaid Cake" And it is very good and "very lemon eee"

Hi!

I have so many cookbooks that it would take a week to count them all!  LOL!  My favorite is the very first cookbook that I received as a gift.  It is the 1973 Betty Crocker's Cookbook.  The binding is tattered and there are many other recipes written on the inside pages.  I have ear marked pages and highlighted certain recipes in that book.  This is the book that taught me how to use "herbs and spices".  The inside of the book covers gives a list of herbs and spices along with catagories of dishes to use them in.  I just LOVE this book!

Dee

Good morning. Like most of the other posters I have too many to count. Throughout the years the one I used most was my Winn-Dixie 50th anniversary cookbook. Winn-Dixie was a grocery store chain in the South which has since closed or at least moved  from here. It was the cookbook that taught me to cook but in most recent years I have another local, a church cookbook which is in tatters and I keep it in a Ziplock bag so the pages won't "go missing". I also have a lot of printed recipes from the Reiman Message board and have learned a lot from those good cooks. I have just recently joined this board and since Betty Crocker makes a lot of my favorite products, I know I will learn much more here.

SCGranny, Just a suggestion for you.  Take the tattered book and photocopy each page and either put it in a three ring binder or take it to a place like kinko's and have it spiral bound.  If it is a real favorite  one that can not be purchased again then copy extras for your family, I am sure there are some family favorites in there that you don't want to go missing.

Hi all!  Like all of you I also have tons of cookbooks, cooking magazines, cut out recipies, etc.etc.  I Really liked Mittens idea about taking the tattered favorite cookbook and having it copied and spiral bound at Kinkos!  Brilliant! 

I had a favorite cookbook fall apart at the binding .. I three hole punched clumps of pages and put them into a large binder.  The binder had clear pockets for the front, back and binding, I cut off the front, back and binding of my original cookbook and slid them in! voilia! good as new!

Speaking of cookbooks, has anyone ever done a family cookbook with their families favorite recipies? 

Granna2,

I have 750 in my collection at the moment and the one that I use the most is the Illustrated encyclodedia of american cooking. I use this one all of the time and found one at an antique store that I gave to my Daughter and she just loves it. so how many do you have in your collection

 Hi everyone, I use my old Betty Crocker cookbook the most.  I have over 100 cookbooks but it is the one I like the best.

hi granna2 sorry i was unable to get on the site for awhile. to answer what you ask me i dident know any of my grandmothers but a few sweet ladies took me in as their own granddaughter and i learned a lot from them and i was  given a lot of old recipes

I have quite a few (maybe 30 or so?) and it seems like I have a couple of recipes that I like from each. I have a Betty Crocker International one that I really enjoy. My favorite though, is one which I received that has lots of recipes that reminds of what I ate as a kid at home.

Counting all the magazines I pick up at the check-out counter, I have between 30 and 40 cookbooks. I always have at least a few recipies that I love in each of them. Two of the cookbooks I go back to time and time again are the Wal-Mart Family Cookbook I picked up for $5 and the Bridges of Madison County Cookbook, which contains my "secret family" carrot cake recipie.