Tonight I peeked into the pantry and was slightly appalled at how the row of cook books has lengthened to take up a whole shelf...
I gathered them all together, removed them and piled them on the dining room table, washed the shelf and quickly replaced them with some of the other staples that had been elbowed out of the way to make room for dessert books, slow cooker recipes, a tome on how to cook British Beef and dozens of others that had seduced me somehow into giving them shelf space.
How does this happen???? I know I am not alone, - I know of people who hide cookbooks in drawers and out of the way places, and other ladies whose Achilles heel is found in fancy shoes.
I chose just nine from the great accumulation, - old favourites and certainly the old red Purity Flour recipe book that has been replaced twice since I started cooking,
and even before that lived on my Mother's pantry shelf; my version is held together with elastic bands!!
I saved an old church cookbook that contains dozens of tried and true recipes from tried and true friends and a couple of Canadian Living Christmas books that I will probably pass on to granddaughters.
I'm here to tell you that I'm feeling terribly virtuous these days as I look at the boxes of cast-offs that sit around waiting to slip into the Bargain Centre and begin a new life!!!
6 comments:
All those boxes ready to begin a new life just as you and Charles will. I don't want you to ever see my bookshelves, Hildred. I'm not even a good cook, so what am I doing with all these cookbooks? Did I just like the photography? Was I hungry when I saw them in the shop? Goodness. Nevertheless, I'm not sure I can part with them...they at least give the impression of a gourmet.
I also have a collection of cookbooks - and I rarely cook much anymore! I used to be seduced by the pictures, then by the simple recipes and then I was seduced by the quaintness of old 'cookery' books so started a collection of those. I also have that Purity book. Now I look up recipes on the internet, but these books look nice in my kitchen shelf (don't they?)
There's cookbooks galore here too, Hildred, ones purchased, gifted and inherited! Grandchildren used to browse through them and mark recipes they would be willing to try!
Good for you for managing to clear some out. I never seem to have the nerve. Keep the church cookbooks though... they often have the best recipes!
Loved your transient cookbook post! They multiply like rabbits in my home :O)
Memories! There was a shelf of cookbooks over my kitchen desk in our "big" house (as our then 3-year old granddaughter called it, comparing it to the RV we were moving into)...and more books that spilled over onto bookshelves in other parts of the house. Some of them live on in my daughter's kitchen and a very few are stored with my photo albums. Most of them went away to good homes with most of the other books. Nothing like a move! Mixed feelings though!
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