Family Cookbook
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George Family Cookbook
Publication Year? Editor/Author/Contributors? This Cookbook is a collection of family recipes collected and passed down by four generations of women within my family. It was first started by my great grandmother, Ida George, when my mother asked her for some of her recipes as a wedding present. Ida lived in Oklahoma during the great depression…
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I’m Writing My Own Recipe Book
Publication Year? Author: Georgia Lee Strickland Roberts This short book was written by my great-grandmother her name was Georgia Lee Strickland Roberts. She was born in 1923. She died in 2012 at age 89. My grandmother has always talked about her cooking and she has always wished she got that talent from her. My father Michael has told…
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Charleston Receipts
1950 (1st Edition) Author: The Junior League of Charleston South Carolina Editors: Mary Vereen Huguenin & Anne Montague Stoney Contributors: Cook Book Committee The Charleston Receipts was a cookbook originally published in 1950 by the Junior League of Charleston. The cookbook features a diverse collection of recipes, ranging from soups and salads to seafood and…
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Dawn’s Cookbook
1974 Author: Dawn Parker Written by my grandmother as a gift for her sister’s wedding, this cookbook covers a complete range of foods for feeding the family and entertaining guests. Breakfast, desserts, vegetables… even cheap homemade Kahlua and mixed drinks are included for the poor newlywed. The book was reprinted via photo copier by my…
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Who’s Your Mama, Are You Catholic, And Can You Make a Roux?
1991 Author: Marcelle Bienvenu Publisher: Times of Acadiana Press, Inc. Lafayette, Louisiana This cookbook contains the family recipes of the Bienvenu family of St. Martinville, Louisiana. St. Martinville is known as the heart of Acadiana, making it an essential center of Cajun food. Marcelle Bienvenu describes this book as a collection of traditional and new…
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Macy’s Salad and Dessert Book
1933 Author: Mabel ClairePublished by: Greenberg Publishers, New YorkPrinted by: Vail-Ballou Press, INC, Binghamton NY Written By: London Eller This cookbook was my great-grandmother’s, Ollie Lou Vena Forbes-Garland, from a young age until her death in the mid-1960s. Stamped on the inside cover by my great-grandfather, Robert Garland, in Roan Mountain, TN. Over the years,…
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The Blevins Family Cookbook Luke Dobson
The recipes of my mother’s side of the family. My cookbook is a personal, family cookbook that can be traced back to my great grandmother. The cookbook is from my mother’s side of the family. One of the main components of the cookbook that I find interesting is that it includes a family tree of…
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Family Cook Book
Began 1961Completed 1965 Author: Patsy Breeding This cookbook is homemade, and is comprised of recipes compiled by my grandmother when she was between the ages of 12 and 16, or from 1961 to 1965. The pages are bound together with string and are mostly still attached, although the outer cover and cover page now stand…