@ai6yr So, to be honest, that's how I cook a lot of the time -- "Frankensteining" 2 or 3 recipes to come up with my own. But I also know how to analyze cooking techniques, know how things taste (and what substitutions to use), etc., etc. If I'm learning how to make something I'm not familiar with, I stick to the original recipe for the first time, then muck around with it (sometimes) if I make it again.

@DoomsdaysCW @ai6yr
Have ~75 cookbooks. One book teaches about cooking, “The Joy of Cooking”, mid ‘60s edition is the best.

I have some pretty old ones from the 1940s and 1950s (my grandmothers), but my favorite older cookbook the Fanny Farmer (1965 reprint of the original) that my great aunt gave me. Some old school stuff in that. And no, I don't have 75+ cookbooks -- probably around 50? (Now I need to do a rough count...). @stevewfolds @ai6yr

So, question for you, @stevewfolds (and @ai6yr ) -- what are your favorite #cookbooks?

My top 5
1. Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen (already!)
2. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
3. Fannie Farmer's
4. The Festive Foods of Ireland
5. Classical Indian Cooking

@DoomsdaysCW @stevewfolds

Reader's Digest "Down Home Cooking"
Betty Crocker Cookbook (1970's ish edition)
Bell's Best (compilation of recipes from Ma Bell employees.. 1980's publishing but seems to be 60's and 70's recipes. Photocopied)
Taste of Aloha (hawaiian cooking)
The Complete Meat Cookbook, Bruce Aidell
The Well Filled Tortilla
Any number of Alton Brown cookbooks

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social @stevewfolds@mastodon.world That "Bell's Best" sounds amazing. Where did you get it?

@driusan @DoomsdaysCW @stevewfolds Garage sale or library sale...

@driusan @DoomsdaysCW @stevewfolds ha, I was wrong, 1980's.

@driusan @DoomsdaysCW @stevewfolds

Stupid phone

Haven't tried this recipe, but... it's typical of the kinds of treasures you find in here, LOL...

Here's one of my grandmother's cookbooks from 1930 - The Rumford Complete Cookbook by Elizabeth Haxworth Wallace. You can tell my grandmother made a lot of dropped cookies (by the smudges on the recipe pages)!

@ai6yr @driusan @stevewfolds