Cindy Fuller wrote:
> In article >,
> Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:43:41 -0800, Christine Dabney
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:42:42 -0600, Sqwertz >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It takes a lot of encouragement for me to buy a cookbook. and you
>>>> can certainly tell my tastes in cooking/eating by my bookshelf :-)
>>>>
>>>> -sw
>>> I think that is true for any of us that have a cookbook collection.
>> I have a lot of obscure ethnic cookbooks, and I also collect recipe
>> pamphlets from oddball products. Today I recieved the pamphlet from
>> Grandma Browns Oven Baked Beans... very interesting history, she
>> started the business in 1921 at age 63, today her children run things.
>> Folks were hard up... a popular meal was a buttered white bread baked
>> bean sandwich... if you had a little brown sugar or molasses to add
>> you felt rich. For special occasions there's a recipe for Bean
>> Baskets; baked beans mixed with the juice from canned pineapples in a
>> baked tart shell, with half a pineapple ring stuck in as a basket
>> handle, and baked with a slice of bacon on top. After reading the
>> pamphlet I can better understand how folks survived the great
>> depression, of course I already knew as my parents lived through and
>> survived and prospered... King Obomination subjects would never
>> survive.
>
> My grandfather swore by Grandma Brown's because you could eat them as is
> or "doctor" them up. He was also fond of the baked bean sandwich
> concept. My sister sent us a can of her saucepan beans (a relatively
> new product) last week. What's the copyright date on the pamphlet,
> Sheldon?
>
> I inherited some pamphlets from SO's stepmother. The one with the most
> memories for me is the Nestle Toll House morsel (i.e., chocolate chip)
> pamphlet, by "Jane Fulton". There used to be a huge Nestle plant in
> Fulton, NY (~ 20 miles from Mexico, home of Grandma Brown's) that closed
> about 7 years ago. The hospital where my sister and I were born was a
> block away from the plant, so chocolate was probably one of the first
> aromas I smelled. My father, uncles, and assorted other acquaintances
> used to work at "the chocolate works", as it was called by the locals.
> The factory is now vacant. Every time we drive through Fulton on
> vacation, the lack of chocolate in the air seems utterly abnormal to me.
>
> Back to the cookbooks. I recognize some of the spines on Christine's
> shelves, since I have some of the same cookbooks. I only have a couple
> of the Culinaria books that Steve seems to collect. I attempt to
> organize my bookcases by subject matter. There is one full shelf for
> barbecue/grilling books, centrally located so the SO can find them. (He
> has yet to grok my organization.) There is one overflowing bookcase for
> international cooking. Another bookcase contains baking,
> Southern/Southwestern US, and vegetarian books. We have some built-in
> bookshelves in the living room, which has been a godsend. Heaven help
> us when we move.
>
> Cindy
>

I am laughing. I am supposed to be moving within a month or so,
and how I am going to do that remains something of a
mystery--mostly because of the books (and my cat, who pees).

--
Jean B.