QueenIsabella
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I hear you on the stained pages! You know which recipes are tried and true that way!I actually don't have the latest edition yet. Somehow feels wrong to pick it up and flip through pristine, fresh pages. I'm used to yellowing pages splashed with greasy blotches, wine, worcestershire, what have you and annotated with "Bill's favorite", needs more rosemary, etc.
The seventies version, yes, yes, I do have a copy. It's my favorite. I will not answer any further on the grounds that I might incriminate myself.
I remain in search of the one 1960's version that is so controversial. I think it was the earliest one of that decade. One of my prizes is my 1940's version. Don't really tend to use that one very much, but I have enjoyed reading it.
I had done something similar for my daughters about 15 years ago, but within the past couple years I've been assembling a (now massive) Google drive of recipes that I come across online. My daughters have access to the drive as well and take advantage of it probably much more than I do these days since I've slacked off on cooking with so many parental obligations to take care of.
I've culled through a lot of my old cookbooks because I wasn't using them very much. So many of them wound up sitting unused even when I was cooking very regularly because tastes have changed so much and a lot of the books utilized a lot of ingredients people don't gravitate towards because they came out of necessity of the war years and/or general thriftiness that generated a lot of strange ingredient substitutions/combinations.
I deliberately chose to hand-write my kids' cookbooks, so they would see the recipes in my hand--decades from now, it'll be like Mom is right there with them. Digital would have been easier with 4 kids! I also put in family notes--like the fact that, this is Grandma's pie crust recipe, but I didn't get the pie crust gene, so I just buy it. And the snickerdoodle recipe serves 1 Dad.
Another cookbook I loved was from the 70's--The Encyclopedia of Cooking. I don't know if it was sold in grocery stores (given free with purchase?) or mail-order, but it was several books in alphabetical order. My favorite was the CH one--it had chocolate, Christmas, and cookies in it. My mom had the full set, which my sister inherited, but I found the set at a yard sale and bought it.