I Tried Recipes Marked "Good" in a Vintage Cookbook...
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- When I found this vintage 1960s "Cooky Book" cookbook at a local antique store, I knew I had to get it and try out some of the recipes. As I flipped through the pages, I realized that the previous owner had rated some of the recipes that they had tried. So I decided to make those recipes to see if the previous owner and I agreed!
This cookbook is the Betty Crocker Cooky Book, which was published in 1963. You can find a reproduction of this cookbook, published in 2002, on Amazon or wherever books are sold: amzn.to/3U0LiLL
You can also find vintage versions on Etsy and ebay.
0:00 Intro
0:59 History of Gold Medal Flour
1:42 Lemon Bars: Baking
4:14 Lemon Bars: Tasting
6:00 Meringue Bites: Baking
8:45 Meringue Bites: Tasting
11:16 Molasses Oatmeal Cookies: Baking
14:10 Molasses Oatmeal Cookies: Tasting
15:58 Bloopers
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I have this exact book! It has “fair”, all the way to “kids love”, all in my great grandmother, my grandmother, and my mom’s handwriting. It means the world to me! ❤
I've read that today's ovens are better insulated than in the past, therefore hotter. That may lead to slight over baking on vintage recipes.
Dear TallBlonde, I'm now wondering if that's what's "wrong" with my new Kitchenaid range and oven. Everything boils over, dries out, and the "proof" setting (as I've recently learned) goes to 135F, which is probably killing the yeast and the reason my loaves don't rise as they should. :(
...and just so you know, that snicker doodle recipe is sooooooo good!
I love this cookbook! I have collected 5 copies of it, specifically for the additional notes, glued-in recipes, and recommendations that previous owners have added to the books. All of our family's favorite cookie recipes are from this book and I have found copies of the book and gifted them to my nieces. Great memories making cookies with my Grandmother, Mom and Aunts. We started the "drunk" fruit for the fruit cakes in late summer, fruits in September, candies in October, cookies in November and we delivered boxes and boxes and tins upon tins of goodies to family, friends and neighbors the second week of December. Thanks for the video!
If your cookies break getting them off the pan, put them back in the oven for just one more minute THEN scrape them off while still hot.
I have two of these cookbooks. One was my grandmother's and she wrote "July 1965 from Joan and Raymond (my parents), the other book was my mom's. I remember eating many, many cookies from this book. What a walk down memory lane. I haven't looked at the book in years. I think I might have a better look at it tomorrow and maybe make some of the cookies I remember.
I have my grandmother's copy of this book and it's what I used when I was learning to bake cookies.
I grew up with this cookbook. And I loved those lemon bars. I remember that recipe was always better the next day 💥
I use this Cooky book regularly- one of my favorites ❤
Hey! I own that book, it was a wedding gift....we use it regularly and have for 17 years!! There's some good stuff in there!! My daughter loves to bake random cookies from it
My mom has this same book that was passed onto her! I can't wait for it to be mine one day.
My mother and I both own these cookbooks... I found my second hand and had to get it after growing up with it!
Hi Erica,
I believe the simplicity of these recipes, along with the lack of detailed instructions, points to what was once common knowledge.
Things were certainly much different back then.
I also love to buy vintage cookbooks. I love them even more when I find notes or other recipes that are handwritten!
It really feels like you’re opening a treasure chest! 💚
Awesome video, as always! I myself make notations in my cookbooks and many recipes are splattered and ripped. I hope one day my descendants will appreciate me saving them the trouble with the “not great” note or delight them with “kids love this!” (That could be their mom or dad I’m referring to!). Of course, most of the recipes I’ve demonstrated and filmed for UA-cam so they can see great-grandma actually making the recipes! Hopefully technology lasts that long! P.S. Lemon Squares are currently in the oven, you influencer, you! ❤
Thank you, friend! Aw, I’ll bet your kids and their families will love that someday! I should start writing in my cookbooks. But yes, I have documentation of my cooking on UA-cam - I wonder how long it will be around!
my mom has this cooky book and we bake out of it all the time 😭just a few weeks ago I was saying when I move out what am I going to do if I don't have this book... maybe I can find a copy too....
My mom still has her mother's copy of this book. I have made so many of these cookies. The icebox cookies are some of my favorites. Love this book!
I bought that book new and still have it! It's my go-to book for cookies. I have loaded my bookshelves with books of all kinds pre-1950. They're better written and often wonderful. Quite a few are cookbooks.
I was born the year that your book was printed. I almost teared up more than once from the nostalgia. Your intro about how someone loved that book really hit me hard. Thank you for churning up so many wonderful memories!
So how weird is it that the huge industrial conglomerate of General Mills could make a book that was clearly loved and instantly makes me think of "family"?
My mom still has her copy of this cookbook, and I have a reproduction copy. The go-to cooky book!
My late Mum left a lot of cookbooks behind, which are now in my house. I love to see you making these recipes!
Lol, i received that "cooky" cookbook as a bridal shower gift! I'm still using it, although through numerous moves and much use, the index pages are long gone. No worries, we know where the "good" and "very good" recipes are! Fun video 🙂
This brought back memories. I learned how to cook using a version of that cookbook.
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I actually went once! It was a long time ago so I don't remember a ton, but I think I enjoyed it!
So fun! I think I’ll try the lemon bars!
I think that the recipes that are marked with what may appear to say "fair" might actually say "fav", for "favorite." I could be wrong, but the handwriting looks like how my mother used to write. I have that same cook book and I love it. Snickerdoodles are awesome and popular all over. It's probably the first cookie I learned to make as a kid. My kids love them. At Christmastime, I sprinkle them with green or red sugar before putting them in the oven. They come out so pretty. That recipe makes a lot of cookies with very few ingredients and effort.
It's possible, but I think I see the dot of an "i" above the word!
Lemon bar was over baked. You also should sprinkle powered sugar over it. I use the lemon zest as well.
I have some cookbooks from my grandma that she used in the 70s & 80s, & she wrote "fair" "good" & "very good" next to lots of the recipes. Her handwriting actually looks pretty similar to the writing in your cookbook!
I love cookbooks, especially vintage ones
I have a similar recipe in my 1972 Betty Crocker cookbook that has a graham cracker crust, chocolate and butterscotch chips, coconut, pecans and sweetened condensed milk drizzled over all and baked. It comes out ooey gooey and very sweet.
what happened if you tried all the recipes marked "great"?? must be mind blowing 🤯🤯
In my copy of this cookbook, at the very beginning it says "Unless otherwise noted, all butter or margarine should be softened. (I do have a late 1970's edition so I don't know if it has always been there or was added at a later printing).
I’ll have to go check if my copy says that!
That really is a good, classic cookbook.
My mother in law use to make a molasse bread ( delicious) unfortunately she passed away and didn't leave a written recipe. I wounder if you have come across one from one of your old cooking books?
If so could you share it ?
Do you mind if I ask in what city/state did you buy this book? This looks like something my mom used to use, and she always marked her recipes just like that, and it even looks like her handwriting!
Oh, that would be so cool! What state did she live in?
Southern California
This was great
I really liked seeing the notes and various other recipe clippings
Would love to see more like this or perhaps a follow-up video with your upgrades 😊
What kind of butter did you use? salted or unsalted?
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Would you share what brand of butter you are using here? I love the old-fashioned wrapper and have never seen it in the supermarket here (Midwest).
It’s Rumiano! I get it on Azure Standard.
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it should be room tempt
Maybe it's my contrarian, masochistic nature, but all I want to do is try the recipes that people hated. lol 🍪☹
My husband’s favorite cookie is in there. It's the same as the meringue you made, but uses
apricot and pineapple preserves and coconut. They are insanely sweet. I cannot eat them.