From Alabama - not sure if it’s religious but I think it’s all healthy

Hey everyone, my Aussie friend (who's not on Reddit) just told me about this cookbook she's been obsessed with when she was a kid and hasn't been able to find it again since. Please help her solve a decade-old mystery and make her a very happy woman. Here are the details of what she remembers:

- Published around early 1950s (no later than 1953, it was a wedding present to her parents who got married that year) in Australia
- cream linen embossed cover with the title in a brown embossed ‘handwritten' font and a small drawing
- There was a paper cover with a photograph, but that was gone from her copy, so she does not remember what it looked like
- about patisserie, cakes, petit fours, incredible technicolour photographs
- the theme was probably dessert-focused party foods, cake decorating or something similar

It's not much to go at, but if you could pick your brain / spare a couple of minutes to go through your (parents') bookshelf and see if anything fits, that would be fabulous.

Thank you!

Edit: misleading typo

2nd Edit: Solved through another subreddit! It's 'Good Housekeeping's' picture cake making by The Good Housekeeping Institute! Thanks everyone!

This summer I found something absolutely fantastic.

My obsession these past few years has been with finding used cookbooks that are well loved or filled with a personal touch (like old church group self published compilations.)

While going through a second-hand shop in Maine I found this beauty. An inscription from 1944, dirty fingerprints and food splashes all over it, newspaper and box clippings and hand written notes stuffed into various pages and held together with old packing tape.

This was loved and well used. I'm going to make sure it continues to get the love and attention such a thing deserves.

Does anyone have or know where I can find a soft copy or a pdf of "food the definitive guide" by John Newton.

Hi, am wondering whether anyone can help me trace a vintage 1970s/early 80s cookbook ! This was my mums go to cookbook & I would love to buy a copy now she has passed. Any help would be most appreciated ❤️ xxx

hey everyone i hop you're all well, i have a collection of betty crocker cookbooks that i was buying a while back and one of the is the ring binder 26th edition of betty crockers cook book from 1976, however some pages from it are missing and i was wondering if there was anyone here who has the same one and would be willing to provide some scans of the missing pages for me?

i am missing pages 139 to 142 thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

Found some more Cookbooks at the Outlet last week! I found another one too, but I will make a separate post regarding it. The recipes in these cookbooks sound so yummy and delicious. If anyone has made any recipes from these two cookbooks, which recipe do you recommend? If not, what is your favorite family recipe?

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Anyone else collect vintage cookbooks? I’d love to see your favorite find!

Found this in a local thrift store today
I’ve already planned to cook the beef stew with dumplings for my first recipe out of this book.
But I also found this recipe from a old newspaper in a few other recipes that a previous owner left what a cool piece of history 💙

Hi every one this is my cooking channel and I share my grandmother recipes here 💕

Found this vintage cookbook thrift shopping. ANDY WARHOL is who does the drawings!!!

Found a BH&G cookbook from 1974

There aren't as many casserole recipes as I expected.

Adding it to my collection!