FREE/BARGAIN — Cookbooks

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

120 Hot Chocolate Recipes - free
https://www.amazon.com/120-Chocolate...dp/B01N0IML88/

I had no idea that there could be so many permutations of hot chocolate.

I've noticed that McDonald's, of all places, has two or three different kinds of hot chocolates. Two of them, at least, have peppermint in them. That sounds yummy. Unfortunately, it still hasn't really gotten cold enough here for me to be in the hot chocolate mood. I did make a cup of coffee one night, though. Otherwise, it's been a daily iced coffee, just like I drink everyday in the summer here . . . .

[DreamWriter]

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Lots of great titles priced from $0.99 to $4.99!

[GtrsRGr8]

Learn what the Southern woman cooked (the recipes) and how she cooked them in these five old cookbooks. All free.

There are tons--well, not tons, because they're digital--but they're a lot of cookbooks on the Internet Archive. But which ones of them are any good? The blog post referenced below has five cookbooks that have been vetted, apparently, so you'll know that you're getting good recipes and stuff.

http://gardenandgun.com/blog/classic...ks-free-charge.

There's a digital cookbook from some Jewish organization of women in Louisville, Kentucky maybe a hundred years ago or more, that I'm going to dig up one of these days. Had a tab for it in my web browser, but the 'puter crashed on me.

[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Learn what the Southern woman cooked (the recipes) and how she cooked them in these five old cookbooks. All free.

There are tons--well, not tons, because they're digital--but they're a lot of cookbooks on the Internet Archive. But which ones of them are any good? The blog post referenced below has five cookbooks that have been vetted, apparently, so you'll know that you're getting good recipes and stuff.

http://gardenandgun.com/blog/classic...ks-free-charge.

There's a digital cookbook from some Jewish organization of women in Louisville, Kentucky maybe a hundred years ago or more, that I'm going to dig up one of these days. Had a tab for it in my web browser, but the 'puter crashed on me.

Just be aware that any Kindle or epub files you download from Internet Archive are not proofread, straight from the OCR and can be somewhat unreadable. Some of them may be found at Project Gutenberg Cookbook Bookshelf, where they have been proofread and reformatted. The Virginia Houswife can be found here. You might find that these cookbooks are more of interest to see what sorts of things they were making, but not like modern cookbooks where you get a more precise list of ingredients, times and temperatures. The ingredients used might be something you can only get if you special order it from a specialty butcher. When was the last time you saw a whole calf's head at your supermarket?

[ApK]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

When was the last time you saw a whole calf's head at your supermarket?

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

Just be aware that any Kindle or epub files you download from Internet Archive are not proofread, straight from the OCR and can be somewhat unreadable. Some of them may be found at Project Gutenberg Cookbook Bookshelf, where they have been proofread and reformatted. The Virginia Houswife can be found here. You might find that these cookbooks are more of interest to see what sorts of things they were making, but not like modern cookbooks where you get a more precise list of ingredients, times and temperatures. The ingredients used might be something you can only get if you special order it from a specialty butcher. When was the last time you saw a whole calf's head at your supermarket?

I am trying to remember which grocery store sells them here. I know one did. So it has been recently. On the calf head.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

Just be aware that any Kindle or epub files you download from Internet Archive are not proofread, straight from the OCR and can be somewhat unreadable. Some of them may be found at Project Gutenberg Cookbook Bookshelf, where they have been proofread and reformatted. The Virginia Houswife can be found here. You might find that these cookbooks are more of interest to see what sorts of things they were making, but not like modern cookbooks where you get a more precise list of ingredients, times and temperatures. The ingredients used might be something you can only get if you special order it from a specialty butcher. When was the last time you saw a whole calf's head at your supermarket?

Good reminder about possible issues with the quality of the printing. Hopefully the blog guy vetted all of the books at least to that extent, although it would take a while to flip through all of the pages.

Yeah, there are more and more sources now for the same old books, thankfully. If you find a bad one somewhere, you might be able to find a good copy somewhere else. And, on the Internet Archive I've noticed that there are often multiple copies of the same book, scanned apparently by different people from different copies from different libraries. Often I have to manually view all of the options to see which one is the best and, therefore, the one that I wish to download. Nice problem to have, though.

Yeah, I can see where the ingredients thing might be a problem. Maybe there's a website or modern book or something that would help out there, but I'm not specifically aware of it. It seems like one or more people have passed along information on this thread about such things, too.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by ApK

They may be some available in English supermarkets. http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/calfshead.htm. hahahah

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

They may be some available in English supermarkets. http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/calfshead.htm. hahahah

Thanks. Now I will head off to cookingbites to ask.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Thanks. Now I will head off to cookingbites to ask.

I was aware of cookingbites (cute name). I bookmarked it.


GtrsRGr8:

Excusez moi. I should have typed "not aware."

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I was aware of cookingbites (cute name). I bookmarked it.

According to 2 brits, it is getting harder to find the heads.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

According to 2 brits, it is getting harder to find the heads.

Why, I'm shocked. And for a delicious-sounding entree like that!

Talk to some guys in the mafia. I've heard that they'll send a horse's head to someone to whom they're trying to . . . uh . . . send a message. Maybe they could tell you where you could get a calf's head.

[bgalbrecht]

I admit, I don't shop that frequently, but I've only seen cow tongue*, and not the entire head. I should have known that someone would call that out, although I'd like to point out that unlike ApK's picture, the calf's head used by The Virginia Housewife is expected to be detached from the rest of the calf.

* I like cow tongue, but my wife doesn't, so we never have it.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

I admit, I don't shop that frequently, but I've only seen cow tongue*, and not the entire head. I should have known that someone would call that out, although I'd like to point out that unlike ApK's picture, the calf's head used by The Virginia Housewife is expected to be detached from the rest of the calf.

* I like cow tongue, but my wife doesn't, so we never have it.

So, does anyone wonder what happens to the parts of the cow that cannot be sold as what they are? I won't mention any specific products, but they're the ones that we say contain "mystery meat."

Anyway, enjoy the pepperoni on your pizza tonight and your sausage at breakfast tomorrow morning. ha

[GtrsRGr8]

Silly me. When I first saw the cover and glanced at the book description, I thought that the book was giving 150 recipes for cooking a pigeon . . . . ha

Before I go any further, let me tell you that the ebook, at $1.99, is 90% off of the digital list price!

In addition to observing the outstanding average rating at Amazon, out of curiosity I checked GoodReads, too. There the book has a 4.29 average rating, from 62 ratings--really outstanding for GoodReads, because the ones giving ratings there tend to be more discerning (to put it nicely) than the Amazon crowd.

The dishes in this book are too hoity toity for me to ever prepare (eating them is a different matter), but they may not be for you. With the ratings in the stratosphere as they are, it's a must-post.

Get a couple of free recipes, found in the book, from the book's dedicated webpage at Amazon: Duck Confit and Carrot Butter-Poached Halibut. That is, if they're not too hoity-toity for you to prepare.

Le Pigeon: Cooking at the Dirty Bird. By Gabriel Rucker; Meredith Erickson; 3 more. Rated 4.6 stars, from 31 reviews at Amazon at the present moment. Print list price $40.00; digital list price $19.99; Kindle price now $1.99. Ten Speed Press, publisher. 352 pages. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C0AO19O/.

Book Description
This debut cookbook from James Beard Rising Star Chef Gabriel Rucker features a serious yet playful collection of 150 recipes from his phenomenally popular Portland restaurant.

In the five years since Gabriel Rucker took the helm at Le Pigeon, he has catapulted from culinary school dropout to award-winning chef. Le Pigeon is offal-centric and meat-heavy, but by no means dogmatic, offering adventures into delicacies unknown along with the chance to order a vegetarian mustard greens quiche and a Miller High Life if that's what you're craving. In their first cookbook, Rucker and general manager/sommelier Andrew Fortgang celebrate high-low extremes in cooking, combining the wild and the refined in a unique and progressive style.

Featuring wine recommendations from sommelier Andrew Fortgang, stand-out desserts from pastry chef Lauren Fortgang, and stories about the restaurant’s raucous, seat-of-the-pants history by writer Meredith Erickson, Le Pigeon combines the wild and the refined in a unique, progressive, and delicious style.