My aunt has quite a few cookbooks and almost every one of them are really good cookbooks. I was looking at them and my uncle told me to take some of them. I didn’t want to take them but I’m betting Chad would love to have a few of them.
Boudin
There is one that I’m going to take home, look at, try a few recipes and then bring it back and trade it for another one next time I’m here.
Round Steak Roll
This is another one I remember having from years ago. I think I’ll try it. There are dozens of recipes in this book that I’d like to try. I love cookbooks but every time I look at the cookbooks I already have, I tell myself . . no more cookbooks but, to get old ones that have so many, good old time recipes, I probably cannot pass up a few of them.
Julianne says
Oleo! Thought that was a South Dakota thing, never hear it here in MN!
Erin says
I haven’t heard that word since my grandmother passed away over 20 years ago, she was from St. Louis!
Cilla Tyler says
My grandmother called it fake butter and we didn’t use it. I can tell w a restaurant uses it. I always ask before ordering.
Rebecca in SoCal says
That’s funny, Julianne! My friend with Arkansas roots sometimes says “oleo.” I’d like to see where that’s used and where not.
Sherrill Pecere says
I still occasionally hear or see oleo and not necessarily in older recipes. It is funny to see and I also notice tin foil a lot (I guess there must be some other foil when talking cooking? LOL). A boss from longer ago was from LA and he was ALWAYS talking about making boudin. I really cleaned out my cookbooks when I moved as I really don’t cook much since it’s just me.
Cilla Tyler says
I always call it tin foil. And I’m a young 68….lol
Rebecca in SoCal says
My husband always calls it tin foil! (64, from Michigan) I laugh at him, so the other day he hesitated and asked, “What do you call it? Aluminum foil?” No, it’s just FOIL! silly…
Ruth says
Judy, I’m so glad you are going to take and keep a few special cookbooks of your aunt’s!!! She would be so pleased that you (and Chad) are interested in them, and that way they aren’t cluttering up the counter/bookshelf at your uncle’s making him sad that no one is using the cookbooks anymore.
Your uncle would rather know that the cookbooks are bringing joy to someone, than to see them sitting there in his house. Who knows….maybe you are ready to let go of some of your old cookbooks….make room for your aunt’s cookbooks.
I can’t wait to hear how good the recipes are!
Susan says
Oh, that second recipe sounds delicious to me. I’m going to have to try that one. Thanks for sharing it in a size I can read. =) Oleo – I’ve heard it, but in the southwest, we never used it. Tin foil – I sometimes say that, but I do more often call it aluminum foil. I don’t ever call it just foil. LOL I live in TN now, but you can’t take the southwest out of the girl – west texas to SoCal and the states in between, almost all my life.
Dar in MO says
Both recipes look good. I’ve lived in St. Louis most of my growing up and my mother used oleo, as it was less expensive than real butter. As a kid, I didn’t know any difference since I had nothing to compare it to. We say aluminum foil most of the time – but tin foil works too. 🙂
Sandie says
Cookbooks are a weakness of mine too- especially ones with a sentimental connection! And I think oleo is a generational thing. My mother is 74, and has always lived here in western Pennsylvania her entire life and still calls margarine, oleo. It was all we ever had growing up and I never knew what real butter tasted like until Junior High when we had a cafeteria. I only use margarine for certain recipes that aren’t suitable for butter.
Rhonda L Russell says
My grandmother called it oleo as well. I grew up using margarine but my parents always called it butter. About 10 years ago I tried real butter for the first time and refuse to go back to margarine. I remember reading an article on oleo/margarine and when it was first sold it was called oleo and then later changed to margarine (if I remember correctly). That may be why it’s a generational thing.
Tina in NJ says
My mother in law once made me a cross stitch picture that said, “My collection of cookbooks is greater than my cooking.” Considering how many cookbooks I have, I decided not to take offense.
Nelle Coursey says
I love the old cookbooks! They are the best. We had several that were printed in 1957-58 from when my in-laws had the Brownwood Banner (a weekly newspaper). They asked for women to send in their favorite recipes and that is what this was printed from. I gave about 30-40 of them to the train museum here so they could sell them and make some money. Don’t know if they did or not? But old recipes that are tried and true are the best ones!