Category: You Ate What?
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Microwave Cooking for One
Microwave Cooking For One Smith 1985 Submitter: What first got my attention while perusing the shelves was the taped together cover. Then I saw the date – 1985. Seems pretty old for a microwave cookbook. Some of the recipes seem doable, but I question the wattage and size of modern…
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Better By Microwave
Better By Microwave Longbotham and Simmons 1990 Submitter: I am submitting this 1990 microwave cook book I found on the shelf of my local public library. I love when I find traces of attempted dishes on the pages of the cookbooks. I wonder if Clams with Black Bean Sauces in…
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Meat for Dinner (Again!)
Famous Brands Meat Cookbook Brand Name Publishing 1985 I don’t know how many more of these tasty recipes I can manage. They are everywhere on our site. The problem with hanging on to old cookbooks in a regular collection is that the photography or illustrations aren’t really helping the recipes.…
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Mormon Meat
Favorite Mormon Recipes Meats Edition Including Seafoods and Poultry 2000 Favorite Recipes Montgomery Second Branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1966 Submitter: While weeding the cookbook section, I spied this sad spiral bound book being held together with a prayer. There is one thing I hate…
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Republican Cooking
How to Eat Like a Republican: Or, Hold the Mayo, Muffy – I’m Feeling Miracle Whipped Tonight Townsend 2014 Submitter: This book was just weeded at my public library. It was weeded for low checkouts and there’s a reason why. It’s trying too hard to be funny and the recipes…
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Just No Gelatine!
The Knox Gelatine Cookbook Rutledge Books, Inc, Knox Gelatine, Inc 1977 Submitter: Just in time for those summer gelatine/Jello salads – who wouldn’t want calico corn relish, creamy cranberry relish, or a zesty seafood appetizer in gelatine? The pictures just make my…mouth water would not be the right phrase. This…
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