My first cookbook was The Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook. A friend gave it to me when I moved from home. She said it was the ONE indispensable cookbook. Over the years I've found she was right.
later
I don’t have that one. My best friend from High School gave me the Fanny Farmer, when we graduated (she became a Home Economics major in college); that has also been a great reference.
-JT
I ended up with a cookbook that belonged to my grandmother.
“The White House Cook Book”, 1903, Edith Carew Roosevelt.
Not counting the index, it’s 594 pages. Pages are fragile.
Contains: Cooking, Toilet (what we call hygiene), household recipes, menus, dinner-giving, table etiquette, care of the sick, health suggestions, facts worth knowing, etc.