Cooking meals with the family is such a wonderful way to create memories. Spending time in the kitchen really brings people together, since you work hard to make a meal that you later get to enjoy while sitting around the table together.
Cookbooks are a huge part of that age-old tradition. Even if you don't like to follow recipes to a T, cookbooks are such wonderful places from which to get inspiration. It's also so lovely to look through the pages inside and see the finished products while you don your apron and plan your menu.
Moms, dads, grandparents, and kids alike have been turning to cookbooks for decades, and sometimes the same cookbook is handed down from the older generations to the newer ones.
Did your family ever use any of these 11 beautiful, vintage cookbooks when you were younger? Perhaps a parent or grandparent had one of these stored away in the kitchen, stained with vegetable oil or covered in flour fingerprints.
Please SHARE these beautiful vintage covers with your family and friends on Facebook who love to cook!
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1. Basic Recipes
This recipe book was published in 1950, and the beautiful cover is lovely enough to be framed on your wall.
2. Our Family Dessert Book
One of the recipes in this 1960 cookbook called for purchasing Snowballs from the store, arranging them on a platter, and inserting a candle into each dessert. Now that's what I call baking.
3. The Cookie Book
The sweets on this 1958 dessert cookbook's cover are enough to make your mouth water.
4. Good Housekeeping's Book Of Ice Creams And Cool Drinks
This adorable cover illustration from 1958 immediately transports you to the past. Their rosy cheeks are absolutely precious.
5. Making Light Of Cooking
Published in 1970, this spiral-bound cooking light cookbook was one of the first of very many of its kind.
6. The Kitchenette Cook Book
If you only had a kitchenette to work with in 1936, this book was there to help.
7. The Metropolitan Cook Book
This 1957 cover makes the food look almost too cute to eat!
8. Shortcut Cooking
In 1969, I bet a bunch of kids hoped that Mom would try the recipe from the cover of this cookbook.
9. Meat Cook Book
Well, you can't really get more straightforward than this 1969 Better Homes and Gardens cookbook.
10. Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book
You've got to open the beautiful cover of this 1950's cookbook before you can see all of the yummy looking pictures inside!
11. 365 Ways To Cook Hamburger
This one's for all the hamburger lovers that were out there in 1960.
Did you use any of these cookbooks when you were younger, or did you see your mom using them? Please SHARE with family and friends on Facebook!
