Diane’s Kitchen

Diane’s cookbook & recipe collection

Note: This list includes just the recipe books in my collection. Click here for the entire list sorted not only alphabetically but also by type of book and publisher

Note: books containing recipes and related information are most often referred to as cookbooks or recipe books. For the most part, I have used cookbook as a generic descriptor of all these books.

I was traveling and moving around quite a bit in the 1970’s so most of the cookbooks I collected during that period were paperback or o ther small easily portable books. An example is my paperback edition of the Betty Crocker Cookbook. Other books came with various products I purchased. These include Loafing It, Cutco Cookbook, Kitchen Aid Cookbook and several others. One of the first big full size cookbooks I got was in the 1980’s – The Encyclopedia of Creative Cooking.

During the 1990’s I obtained several cookbooks from attending meetings and conferences for volunteer directors. These include Celebrating the Centennial, First there must be Food, Healthy Habits Cookbook, What's Cookin' from ASDVS membership, World of Cooking, The Well-Seasoned Wok

Other cookbooks were given to me by family and friends. These include Betty Betz Teenage Cookbook, Bowlers Favorite Recipes, the Deaf Smith Country Cookbook, Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook, For the Pot, Recipes from Brandywine River Museum, Harvest Recipes, Mendocino County Treats & Trees and the Thursday Night Feast.

Since about 2015 many of my recipes come from the internet. I discovered this was a great way to look for recipes containing a specific ingredient. I copied recipes that interested me into word processing documents. I have built up quite a collection over the years. These documents come in handy not only for the recipes themselves, it is also a way for me to mark the recipes I have used and make any notes pertaining to that recipe.

I n more recent years I have expanded on a project started back in the mid 2000’s. That is scanning portions of certain cookbooks in the family collection. I created a spreadsheet listing the recipes I was interested in trying along with the book they were in, the page number and key ingredients. I have marked the ones I have tried. I found it is easier to scan recipes I have made or intend to make as my filing system makes a digital copy easier to find than going through the book even using my spreadsheet as a reference. In addition all my digital recipes, whether they are part of the family recipe book, recipes I have collected from the internet, scanned from the family collection of books, or other sources provides for a lot of flexibility and enhances the ability to use them. For instance, I can access them on the computer and on my tablet. I can take the whole collection or just pertinent parts with me when we go camping.

Note: I have always been a fan of Winnie the Pooh. This book has some great recipes.

Click here for pictures and more samples of the family recipe and cookbook collections

Recipe Collections

I ended up with the recipe boxes from both my grandmothers as well as from my mother. The collections also include recipes from various other family members. Click here to view the collections of Josephine Harrison -|- Myrtle Leipper -|- Virginia Leipper -|- Virginia’s Christmas Planning - Diane Leipper

Cookbooks

Codes for type of cookbook

b - breads	c - collection of recipes	d - documentary	f - fish, seafood
h - holiday recipes	I - international	o - camping, outdoor cooking	p - preserving, canning
r - regional	s - specialty books	t - treats, candy, cookies	u - unclassified
v - vegetarian, vegetables, health

Alphabetical List

Note: some of these are linked to sample pages of the book

Title	Author	Publisher	Year	Type	Notes
12 Month Harvest		Ortho Books	1975	p
50 Great Recipes for Camp Cooking		Better Homes		o
All-time Favorite Pies	Better Homes & Gardens	Meredith Corp	1978	t
Barbecue, Sizzling Fireside Know-How	Bloom, Leslie	American Cooking Guild	1987	o
Better Homes and Gardens Mexican Cookbook		Meredith Corp	1977	I
Better Homes and Gardens Soups & Stews		Meredith Corp	1978	s
Betty Betz Teenage Cookbook	Betz, Betty	Henry Holt & Co	1953	c
Betty Crocker (paperback)				c	I got this as a compact version of the Betty Crocker cookbook we grew up with
Betty Crocker New Cookbook		Macmillan	1996	c	I found this in a thrift store
Betty Crocker Outdoor Cook Book		Golden Press	1961	o
Blessings of Bread (the)	Bailey, Adrian	Paddington Press	1975	b
Bowlers Favorite Recipes	Wenatchee Women's Bowling Association		2002	c	A friend of mine belonged to the group that created this book. She asked me to contribute
Bread Machine Baking	Brody, Lora & Apter, Millie	William Morrow & Company	1993	b
Bread Machine Baking	Pizzorno, Lara	Prima Publishing	1994	b
Bread Machine Cookbook III (the)	German, Donna Rathrnell	Nitty Gritty Books	1992	b
Brunch Cookery	Jester, Pat	HP Books	1979	c
Butter N Love Recipes	Washoe Zephyrs ABW	Fundcraft	1984	c
Campbell's Homemade Meals in 20 minutes		Campbell Soup	2000	c
Celebrating the Centennial	Staff and volunteers of Hunnington Memorial Hospital		1992	c	I got this at a Hospital Volunteer Directors conference
Chicken and other Poultry		Sunset Books	1996	o
Complete Bread Cookbook (the)	Kaufman, Ted & Jean	Paperback Library	1969	b
Cooking and Preserving Vegetables	American Culinary Institute	Orbis Publishing	1974	v
Cooking for Geeks				c
Cooking with Whole Grains	Orton, Mildred Ellen	Farrar, Straus & Giroux	1951	u	a friend had this book, I liked it and bought my own copy
Cornell Bread Book (the)	McCay, Clive and McCay, Jeanette	Dover	1973	b
Creative Sourdough Cooking	Cantrell, Rose	Weathervane	1977	s
Creative Spin Cookery Cookbook		Oster	1982	u
Cutco Cookbook	Mitchell, Margaret	Cutco Division	1956	c
Deaf Smith Country Cookbook (the)	Ford, Marjorie Winn & Hillyard, Susan & Koock, Mary Faulk	Collier Books	1973	v	Mother found this book and bought me a copy
Delicious Heart Healthy Recipes	American Heart, Foster Farms		2001	v
Diet for a Small Planet	Lappe, Frances	Ballantine	1975	v
El Molino Best Recipes	El Molino		1953	u
Encyclopedia of Creative Cooking (the)	Turgeon, Charolette	Weathervane	1984	c	A person selling these came by the Girl Scout office where I worked.
Essential Ortega Chile (the)		Heublein, Inc	1982	I
Family Guide to Better Food and Better Health	Deutsch, Ronald M	Better Homes	1977	v
Features 5 Cookbook	Kenmore		1986	c
First there must be Food	Northwestern Memorial Hospital		1987	c	I got this at a Hospital Volunteer Directors conference
Fish and Shellfish A to Z		Lane Books	1989	f
Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook	Ranck, Dawn PellmanGood, Phyllis		2000	c	Bryan got this at Costco
Fleischmann's Bake it easy Yeast Book				b
Food Lab	Lopez-Alt, J. Kinji		2015
For the Pot, Recipes from Brandywine River Museum	Cobb, Jane	Brandywine Conservancy	1986	c	Given to me by a friend
Fresh Produce A to Z	Editors of Sunset Books	Lane Books	1987	v
Greengrocer (the)	Carcione, Joe & Lucas, Bob	Chronicle Books	1972	v
Harvest Recipes	Vickie & JoAnn	Gooseberry Patch	2009	c	Given to me by a friend
Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day	Hertzbergm Jeff & Francois, Zoe	St Martin's Press	2009
Healthy Habits Cookbook	Hospital volunteers		1998	c	I got this at a Hospital Volunteer Directors conference
Home Style Japanese Cooking in Pictures	Kohmo, Sadako	Shufunotomo	1977	I
How to Dry Foods	DeLong, Deanna	HP Books	1979	p
I'm Just Here For The Food	Brown, Alton	Stewart, Tabori & Chang		u
Ice Creams and Sorbets	Passmore, Jacki	HP Books	1986	t
Keeping the Harvest	Thurber, Nancy & Mead, Gretchen	Garden Way Publishing	1976	p
Kenmore Microwave/Convection Cooking	Sears	Benjamin Company Books	1984	c	This came with a new microwave
Kitchen Aid Recipes and Instructions				c
Laurel's Kitchen	Robertson, Laurel & Flinders, Carol & Godfrey, Brownwen	Bantam	1978	v	A friend had the hardbound book I bought the more compact paperback version
Laurel's Kitchen Caring	Robertson, Laurel & Flinders, Carol & Godfrey, Brownwen	Ten Speed	1997	s	Found this at a shop at a car wash
Loafing It		DAK Industries	1989	b	This came with a bread machine
Make-A-Mix Cookery	Eliason, Karine, Harward, Nevada, Westover, Madeline	HP Books	1978	c
Mendocino County Treats & Trees	Willits Senior Center		1982	r	Anita gave this to me
Mexican Cookery	Hansen, Barbara	HP Books	1980	o
Microwave Guide and Cookbook(the)				c
Muffin recipes (700 best)	Saulsbury, Camilla	Robert Rose	2010
Natural Healing Cookbook (the)	Bricklin, Mark & Claessens, Sharon	Rodale Press	1981	v
Natural Sweet Tooth Breakfast, dessert & Candy Cookbook (the)	Hobart, Billie	Straight Arrow Printing	1974	t
New Book of Whole Grains (the)	Bumgarner, Marlene Anne	St Martin's Press	1997
Our Favorite Recipes	Ladies Auxiliary of the Chloride Volunteer Fire Dept	Walter's Publishing		c	Mom and I got these while Gramp Harrison was living in Chloride
Pacific Northwest Seafood Cookery		Stan Jones	1978	f
Potatoes! Recipes for America's Favorite Vegetable		American Cooking Guild	1994	v
Quick and Easy Chinese Cooking		Shufunotomo	1969	I	I got these from an Oriental grocery in Monterey
Quick and Easy Japanese Cooking		Shufunotomo	1971	I	I got these from an Oriental grocery in Monterey
Roughing It Easy	Thomas, Dian	Brigham Young University Press	1974	o
Saucepans and the Single Girl	Kragen, Jinx & Perry, Judy	Fawcett	1968	c
Small Batch Canning & Freezing Cookbook	White, Jean	The Curtis Publishing Company	1978	p
Stirring it up in our Community	Nancy Gomes PTA	N		c	Local school fundraiser
Sunset Barbecue Cook Book	Editors of Sunset Books	Lane Books	1986	o
Sunset Cookbook of Breads 1		Lane publishing	1977	b
Sunset Cookbook of Breads 2		Lane publishing	1976	b
Sunset Ideas for Cooking Vegetables	Editors of Sunset Books	Lane Books	1975	v
Sunset Mexican Cookbook		Lane Books	1974	I
Sunset Mexican Cookbook II		Lane Books	1978	I
Sunset Pasta Cook Book	Editors of Sunset Books	Lane Books	1989	s
Sunset Vegetarian Cooking	Editors of Sunset Books	Lane Books	1989	v
Sunset Vegetarian Favorites	Editors of Sunset Books	Lane Books	1988	v
Tassajara Bread Book (the)	Brown, Edward Espe	Shambala	1970	b	learned about this book from a friend
Texas Border Cookbook	Kerr, W. Parker & Kerr, Norma	William Morrow & Company	1992	r	Mother gave me this book
Thursday Night Feast (the)	Shepard, Sigrid		1977	v	Anita gave me this book
Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook (the all- new)	Lacalamita, Tom	Simon & Schuster	1999	b
Well-Seasoned Wok (the)	Yan. Martin	Harlow & Ratner	1993	I	I got this at a conference where Martin Yan was the guest speaker
What's Cookin' from ASDVS membership			1991	c	I got this while I was involved with the California Hospital Volunteer Directors
What's Cookin' from ASDVS membership			1992	c	I got this while I was involved with the California Hospital Volunteer Directors
Whole Grain Cookbook (the)	Livingston, A.D.	The Lyons Press	2000
Women's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery Vol 1		Fawcett	1966	c
Y'all Eat Yet	Lambert, Miranda		2023	c