Recipe Books

[ice fishin' nut]

Just was wondering, how often do you guys and girls buy recipe books???? Who has more, the husbands or the wifes???? I know I out do my wife by about 4 to 1.....



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[Salmonsmoker]

We both collect recipe books - just different kinds. When I go to a garage sale or used book store - one of the first things that I look for are OLD recipe books - the kind that local groups put together. That is a place where I can find some good basic recipe's. Then, with some experimentation, I can generally adapt them to my outdoor kitchen. I look for Dutch Oven recipe's - in one book I found a 500 year old recipe for Irish Soda Bread. Back in thoes days, there were not many trees in Ireland. They needed a bread that would work in their stone ovens with peat as a heat source. Now, when I dig up my home-made bread out of my stone-pit oven - visitors are amazed. It is excellent stuff - started with an very old recipe - tried it - found out what its characteristics were - then modified it to bring out some unique flavors.

My wife has a lot of books on crock-pot cooking, a Microwave cooking (even a Microwave Cooking Wild Game book.) Between the two of us, we have a lot of cookbooks. Some of the recipes that I use start with one of her books - some start with one of my own books. Where ever the original recipe comes from, I try it as written - then modify it to my own taste - then try it on guests.

Salmonsmoker