Grandmother's Cookbook

by Elizabeth R. Von Hohen and C Von Hohen, Elizabeth Rose, and Gamble

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962542504
• ISBN13: 9780962542503
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Carrie J. Gamble Incorporated
• Length: 100 Pages

Customer Reviews

All the charm of grandma's cooking!

These days, cookbooks tend to be designed with the idea that, with their help, even an inexperienced klutz of a cook should be able to turn out perfectly good meals. It's worth noting that this book hearkens back to days when we didn't have such hand-holding available to us, and the recipes do reflect this. They're written in an old-fashioned style, in paragraph-form, with a slightly archaic language and some old-fashioned terminology and techniques. I would in no way want the authors to change this--this book is meant as a treasury of old recipes and techniques, and to try to adapt those to a modern cookbook's style standards would rob them of their beautiful charm. However, it does mean that if you don't consider yourself handy in a kitchen, with something of a knack or intuition for cooking (or at least some decent experience under your belt), you might find some of the recipes a little daunting or confusing. Again, this is in no way meant as a negative comment on this book--it's simply to help the reader decide if this is a cookbook meant for her. In the lovely introduction by Carrie Gamble she mentions testing the recipes with her grandmother before including each one in the book, and I have to say that this is the crucial step most labor-of-love cookbook authors fail to comprehend and execute properly. It's also key to an outstanding cookbook. This cookbook produced some of the best food I've had in a while, and I say that fully remembering the cookbooks I was reviewing over Thanksgiving. I could go into loving detail about each dish we made, but instead I'll just say that I can't wait to make more!