Country Style Cookbooks
Old cookbooks are not just for collecting, but they are indeed fun to collect. I can not say I have any particular sense of reasoning when it comes to my own collection, but I sure have a lot of them. As a great eBayer, I was constantly picking them up for a song and a dance compared to the local shops. It isn't just local shops that sell some pretty great old cookbooks. My favorite spot to find them is at thrift stores. One such book is the 'Country Living Recipes', book by Jean Wickstrom Liles. It was published back in the 80's, and contains some of the best tried and true old country food recipes for familiar, easy, yummy, down home style comfort foods.
Not all cookbooks have to be extremely old to be collectible. This book has easy recipes and also some very good hints for the cook. Hints such as, freezing soft cheese for 15 minutes before trying to cut or shred it. Another tidbit is to place one or two avocado seeds in Guacamole dip to keep it from turning brown. Not all cookbooks can be found easily, but we did find a handful of this one on eBay for around $5 each. If any are available at this time you can use the search feature to find them.
Cooking country style is cooking comfort food. Although many are looking to stay slim and trim these days, they are also diving into an occasional meal for the pure pleasure of enjoyment for down home country style cooking like momma used to make. Finding these old cookbooks is easy to do by using Ebay, Amazon, and several other outlets. Don't forget to look at yard sales too. Enjoy!