Grandmother's Cookbook

By Elizabeth Rose Von Hohen and Carrie J. Gamble

"A Slice of Living Life the Old Fashioned Way" "This book brings me back to my Grandma Eva's farm with its simplicity and freshness, recreating sights, smells and tastes from my memory bank that I... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962542512
• ISBN13: 9780962542510
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Carrie J. Gamble Incorporated
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 8.5"

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!