It wasn’t even that long ago (I was born in the early 80s), but I feel like I’m handling museum artifacts… the smell of the old paper really takes it home.
Gonna sift through them to see if I wanna try some… but I really have no interest of holding onto these long term. Is there a community of people who might be interested in these? Or any good ideas on how else to use them?
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The Japanese Country Cookbook looks interesting.
What a find! Unfortunately, people don’t rely on printed cookbooks and recipes like they once did, and the recipes will be dated to some degree. So … not the easiest thing to donate. Maybe a thrift store that maintains a book section. A second-hand book store might take some/all of it in trade. Also check with your local library, college, community center, etc.
Wow, that box of Great American recipe cards brings back MEMORIES.
Start a you tube channel and cook those recipes
Posting them to [archive.org](http://archive.org) would be a public service. You could always sell them, of course.
The best of Thai Cusine is an excellent book. I have it somewhere but haven’t seen it for a while and miss it.
Each recipe is in English and in Thai which I think confirms it’s credentials.
There are some interesting recipes in there if I remember rightly including pork balls rolled in tapioca and steamed and some fascinating sweets made with egg yolk shaped into flowers and then flavoured by placing in a tin with burning incense.
Keep that book it’s great,
Oh man, I adore all of this! I just inherited a huge box full of stuff myself and have been sorting everything. This is an absolute find!
Please do a public service and upload to archive !
Read through ALL of them first…lol. Our local library takes donations; then the ones they don’t keep they put them in a “free” area for people to pick through …
That Nitty Gritty Japanese Country Cookbook is **so good** — I’d start there!
Fire up the stove, baby!! Have a blast from the past cooking, and partying 😁
Digitize the ones you like then email them to yourself. Place emails in a folder titled recipes. You can then search the folder by recipe name.
Somewhere in your collection of Great American Recipe cards is a recipe for the best lemon bars I’ve ever made (sadly I misplaced my card for it about a decade ago but I still fantasize about how darn good those were).
Ask over at r/cookbooklovers as well.
When my Mom moved to CA we took her cookbooks to a library in MI and they were happy to get them
I take pictures of books and save to the cloud. Then donate the books.
Sell them on EBAY! I’ve bought some just like it!
If you only knew how much I’ve spent on recipe card collections on eBay. I love them. So much so that I’m wishing I was your neighbor so that I could sit on your porch and just look through the stack and see what’s in there! Haha.
If I were you, I would go thru them one by one and copy any recipe that looks good before doing anything else. Then, as others suggested, you could donate them or sell them. Either way, enjoy your treasures as you decide!
I would look at getting them scanned/digitized for preservation purposes.
I would love to see the table of contents and maybe a recipe or two from the Japanese cookbook! I live in Japan in the country. Would be great to get some dinner inspiration! Lol.
I think Simply Delicious was a subscription you got cards every so often. There was also one with a card catalog thing. I dunno, I had them but the recipes weren’t that awesome.
Must see the insides!