Do you still use cookbooks?

I have a collection of old cookbooks. I never really follow recipes. I love to cook and use recipes as a guide, unless I'm trying to bake. Baking is a whole different story! I follow the recipe to the tee, and still things don't come out very well. I guess I just stink at baking.

Funny you ask because I had tons of cookbooks and I sold them all in my last garage sale. I would give anything for some of the old time cook books. These things they call cookbooks in todays world most times aren't worth the paper and ink it cost to make the book far as I'm concerned. Maybe I just didn't have good cookbooks???

I do still use my big Betty Crocker Cookbook, but I usually switch ingredients like whole wheat flour for regular flour and cut oils in half, for instance..

I barely used them anyway - i'm such a lousy cook if it doesn't start with a box, i'm in trouble!

I love my cookbooks and use them as a refence when I cook or bake regularly. I would be lost without them. I always loved my grandmothers cookbooks, she had some awesome old ones with great easy recipes in them as well. I do use the internet as well but am not as dependent on it as I thought I would be. Mind you maybe it would help find the recipe of my grandmas that I have lost. It was for an oatmeal bar and only used like 4 or 5 ingred and was baked in the oven, came out kinda like granola. I remember the oatmeal the margarine and the brown sugar but the rest is a blur. Man I so want to find this recipe again...Any help with this would be appreciated!

Are you kidding??? I am a cookbook fein!!! I collect cookbooks from all over the country, even the ones that have been shown a lot of love (used, coffee and grease stains, etc). I have over 100 of them right now. To me they are a great source of ideas and I just drool when I look at the recipes and pics!!!

My husband and I not only use cookbooks, I actually wrote and published one. In 2005 I published a cookbook of Danish recipes from my family. My husband loves to cook. Despite the fact that I published a cookbook, I really don't cook, rather I write. It doesn't take a cook to organize recipes. I just wanted to pass on my family's heritage to the world.

I'm trying to learn how to cook with less meat so I've picked up a number of vegetarian cookbooks recently. My most recent purchases were from a couple of restaurants where I really love the food. Only trouble is I don't recognize a lot of the ingredients!

I have a rather large collection of cookbooks and I do use them quite often. I just decided that I need to get rid of some of them when I move this time but it will be hard to do. I will just have to see if I have used them or not lately. I do look a lot of things up online too.However,nothing is better than getting the book out.

I love cookbooks! xD Even though I'm part of the internet generation, I guess, I'm old fashioned in someways. I don't like searching for specific recipes online because too many results come up and it's hard for me to choose one. w

When I was living in Winnipeg I had hundreds of cookbooks but I only used one most of the time. It was called, oh my god, it just went out of my brain as I was typing this. Goodhousekeeping, I think. It was an old cookbook from back in the 70's but it was good. Oh yeah Betty Crooker's Cookbook. That's it. Anyways, with moving to another province I had to downsize, about 7 years ago, and now I don't know what ever happened to that cookbook and sometimes I still wish I had it. There were recipes in it that I wish I could now cook, like different quiches. I also used to have a cookbook that had recipes for cooking things in the microwave, when they first came out with them. Some of the recipes were really good and again, I can't remember how to make them. More egg quiches that you could make in the microwave and simple to make but really good. I don't have any cookbooks at all now and I need to get some. I like to try different foods and now that I am single again and not so stressed all of the time, I want to start making some exautic foods. I want to experiment again. That is what I need to do, get some cookbooks, thanks for this discussion since I have forgotten how much fun it was, and will do it again.

No, I never really have.. I have a few cookbooks at my home now. I usually will just follow the directions from the back of the product that I am cooking from. And I measure it exactly as it is asked. One day, I will just whip up an recipe from my cookbook.. Thanks for this discussion!

The only cook book I use regularly is "Fanny Farmer". It is the best. Everything always comes out as it should.

Hi whywiki. Yes, I use cookbooks but very often. I have a book I put favorite recipes in when I see them like in the paper or some online. Also if someone gives me a good recipe I put it in my book. Some things I don't need a recipe for but if it has a lot of ingredients or is something new, I look at the recipe. I've never heard of that web site. I'll have to check it out.

i used to have loads of cookery books i used to love the old ones with sheeps head soup in lol. i was gutted i had to get rid of them when i emigrated, so now i do tend to look things up on the internet but even then i do what ve always done, ill read a reciepe look at the ingredients and change everything to make it more enjoyable for how we would like it lol