The name of my blog: Domestic Goddess's Recipe Box This is the link to my blog: https://domesticgoddessinthekitchen.blogspot.com/
I've always enjoyed looking at recipes as well. For many years I'd go to our city's library to check out recipe cookbooks. And if I liked the cookbook, I'd ordered the book. I now have quite a collection.
I’ve thinned mine down quite a bit but I still have my country women’s association books dating back to early 1970’s and a very old green and gold cookbook that dates back to approx 1930 plus’s a newer version of the G&G book that’s from 1970’s Country woman’s association is …known as the CWA and Green and Gold cookbooks where started by a Adelaide school as a fund raiser in 1923 https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/green-and-gold-cookery-book/ And I have a few books relating to fruit preserving , including a copy of a book ( for drying fruit in sun / shade that’s no longer in print ) and the and and only book that’s known to exist is in the state library of south Aust , I was allowed to view it / copy it but not permitted to take it out of the library . I shared a copy of that book with a friend who lost the print out ( I only copied the basic for him not full book ) he looked online for days and could not find the extensive info I have ..so it’s precious info for me to be able to dry our own fruit in summer @Cindi Marie Bauer
I, too, like reading recipes. I would often try something new that I'd read in the newspaper's weekly Food Section,intentionally seeking out something way different than I would normally make. I have several free hardback cookbooks I got by mailing in for them: Land O' Lakes, Lea & Perrin's, Borden's Sweetened Condensed Milk, McIlhenny tabacso, etc. I've read your website, but my problem is that since I've been retired, I'll see a recipe that looks good and I'll run right out, buy the ingredients and make it that day. I can't tell you how many times I've done that, whether initiated by an email, a website or a forum. *burp* ps: I like the idea of putting a little flavored non-dairy coffee creamer in chocolate chip cookies. The possibilities are endless.
John Brunner, I was fascinated to know, that when you make chocolate chip cookies, you'll add flavored non-dairy coffee creamer. Exactly how much do you add to the recipe❓ Also, do you add flavored non-dairy coffee creamers when preparing other types of cookies❓ I surely hope you don't mind me asking.
Well, I was talking about that top recipe in your website (Kittencal's Jumbo Chewy Bakery-Style Chocolate Chip Cookies.) The second ingredient is 1 Tablespoon non-dairy powdered coffee creamer. It caught my eye because I have a Mormon dinner roll recipe that uses powdered milk, and a chocolate cookie recipe whose base is biscuit mix. I like little twists like that.
John Brunner, recently I had stumbled across KITTENCAL'S JUMBO CHEWY BAKERY-STYLE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE recipe, which I made years ago, and readded that cookie recipe on my blog. Not paying attention to the ingredients one needs to make these cookies, I had forgotten that one of the ingredients needed to make the cookies was... "non-dairy powdered coffee creamer". Feeling rather "stupid right now" as I type this. I guess I should of paid more attention to what ingredients one needs to make these cookies. I also need to make these cookies once again. As it's been quite some time since I made these cookies.
After a while, they all blur together. I grab recipes off of the web and paste them into Word documents so I can organize & rearrange them. (I have a real problem with recipes that do not list ingredients in the order in which they are needed.) There have been several times when I've copied/pasted/rearranged a recipe, only to then realize that I already grabbed it some time ago. You could cite a similar "trick" off of recipes I've used, and I would say "I gotta try that someday," when I have already tried it many times over. It's to our credit that we cook so often that we cannot recall everything.
You needn't feel stupid, @Cindi Marie Bauer, I have even forgotten my kids' names, or at least mixed them up, on occasion. But you know, if you make those yummy sounding cookies, you have to make enough for the class.
Hi Mary. Reading your post not only made me giggle, but it surely made my day. When my girls were still in grade school, I enjoyed baking cookies for them to pass out to their classmates. Or, if we had new neighbors move in near us, I would enjoy baking something to welcome them to the neighborhood. It's so sad that "times have changed", and no-one does that anymore. I miss the good ol' days.