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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
If such a book is found, we at home here will be very interested as we have been buying and stealing cook books for decades looking for one.
I go along with Cinisajoy's suggestion of fundraiser or other community produced books as likely being the best to aim for. They tend to be more down to earth and be based on readily available ingredients. In my own country (I am not in the US) schools, women's groups, etc. produce them and a couple are well thumbed through in our house. Also, in my own country a local manufacturer of some basic ingredients produces a very good book of recipes all having readily available ingredients and is not ostentatious in those needs; it is in many households here and there may be something similar in your location.
Another alternative is to make up ones own recipe book by cruising through the many cooking/recipe sites on the internet, or picking the few attractive recipes out of chefs' wider compilation books, etc. We do the same for favourite recipes, with them going into a mixture of MSWord or OneNote files.
A USA book we do have and which is readily available and free, does not contain too many recipes, and is generally straightforward in respect of method and ingredients is Recipes and Tips for Healthy, Thrifty Meals, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, US Department of Agriculture ( http://origin.www.cnpp.usda.gov/Publ...RecipeBook.pdf ). It is a little PC and has quite a bit about planning meal menus for coming weeks, etc. which may be unwanted, but the recipes are fine :-). |
Oh yes, churches, schools, the fair, museums and assorted other organizations put out cookbooks. I have 100's of regional cookbooks.