Basic Cookbooks
How long have you had this cookbook?:
20 yearsWhat is the name and author of the cookbook?
My favorite cookbook is Cookin' Cousins by my family. We put this together in 1991 for a family reunion and now, nearly twenty years later, it is still the most-used cookbook in any of our homes.
How would you rate the difficulty of recipes?
Good for beginnersWhat are your favorite recipes in the book?
Cousin Suzanne's Crab Supreme, Cousin Pat's Potatoes Deluxe, my sister-in-law's Chicken Curry, my Mom's Pickled Beets, and the list goes on and on.
What do you like the least about the cookbook?
The typos we didn't catch even after numerous proof-readings
My Review
This cookbook covers five generations of recipes beginning with my grandmother, then the aunts and uncles, down to the first cousins and their children and grandchildren. We also included a family tree and the cookbook has become a cross between a family bible and a recipe collection. It is referred to in the family as simply, "The Book." If you go to someone's house for dinner and you like what you eat, you ask, "Is it in the book?" It contains everyone's best recipes. Its pages become dog-earred and stained and many are on their second copy. It's our heritage. It is easy in this computer age to compile a family cookbook. Just do it.
