My husband and I celebrated our 23rd anniversary this weekend. Since he’s a fan of your channel, I got him a bundle of vintage cookbooks. He’s extremely pleased with them. Thank for the gift idea!

@MaryHughes-ko4fj

4 ай бұрын

Congratulations!

@jewels498

4 ай бұрын

Happy anniversary! My husband and I celebrated our 23rd in November ❤

@giannidescalzo2101

4 ай бұрын

So cute! Congratulations!

@glorianelson9538

4 ай бұрын

@@MaryHughes-ko4fj How fun! Happy anniversary!

@nannag5801

4 ай бұрын

Happy anniversary!

"I apologize for the thunder" - Anna in a toga holding a thunderbolt

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

😂

My grandmother used to say for lunch... soup, salad, sandwich... Choose two.

Potato soup made with instant potato flakes was EXACTLY what I used as one of my valuable partners to help me pull through pneumonia over the last few months. There were slight ingredient variations over the run of the potato soup binge, but some of the things I really appreciated were (1) how I could squeeze some important extra calories into it (because I had no appetite and was barely eating any solid food) with margarine and half-and-half, (2) how I could squeeze some important extra nutrition into it by adding vegetables already on hand (including some delicious canned saag), and (3) how I could soothe my flaming sore throat (those tonsils were working extra hard processing all that trouble from the lungs) by putting a fine sprinkle of salt on top of the finished soup. Several nights some weeks I'd be up at midnight or one in the morning, making a bowl of this instant magic, because it would break up what I called "The Night Terror", when symptoms would crescendo and pummel me like a hurricane. After a big warm bowl, I'd brush my teeth and find a comfortable position to go back to peaceful sleep in. I'm much better this week. 😊

Totally with you on the mug. Nothing more comforting when I'm sick than chicken soup sipped from a mug.

@keriezy

4 ай бұрын

I really enjoy sipping a tomato basil soup!

@serenatwilite4005

4 ай бұрын

I like the old Lipton Cream of Chicken soup mix in a mug. I remember it from my childhood in the 70's. It has a distinctly different, more homemade taste than any canned Cream of Chicken. So glad they're still making it after all these years, always makes me feel like I'm back in the 70's again.

Open Face Sandwich: Very Scandinavian! Potato Soup: Could add diced canned potatoes for quick texture and...a little diced extra crispy bacon and/or shredded cheddar! 😊

@slc1161

4 ай бұрын

Can also make it with a bag of cubed hash brown frozen potatoes. Yum!

I love the idea cookbooks that have some stains and little remarks. To me it shows that it was used and enjoyed 😊

You’re so comforting to watch. Brings back my youth.

Anna, I have the 1974 version of this book and I can't begin to tell you how many recipes I made as a newlywed who had no idea whatsoever about cooking. I seem to remember making the potatoe flake soup and my husband didn't like it very much. I still have the book and I look back at my favorite recipes at the time, with fondness. Love your channel!

I did not feel like cooking tonight so I made the potato soup. Easy and yummy! I doubled the potato flakes to make it a bit thicker and added some bacon bits and cheese.

My Mom used to make that macaroni salad using shrimp. She would use celery salt in place of regular salt because she liked the taste but not the stringy crunch. For the soup, I think if you add more flakes you can adjust the thickness to your own liking. My go to "quick" potato soup in winter... 1 box of scalloped potatoes made according to stove top directions plus 1 extra cup of milk,1/2 pkg diced ham (wallyworld) and 1/2 tsp pepper... run thru a blender or food processor, then run thru strainer if you want it extra smooth.

@serenatwilite4005

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for telling about your quick potato soup recipe, sounds delicious!

Hello! Some peas could be a tasty addition to the first recipe. As much as american cheese is maligned, I like it and in my opinion, there are cases where it really works. The potato soup also looks super economical, and if you had leftover cooked bacon, crumble some on top along with croutons you could toast from leftover bread, maybe add some finely chopped broccoli in the beginning, if you had a piece hanging around. Another enjoyable video, my favorite is when you share details from the cookbooks at the end.

I've known about using mashed potato flakes for potato soup for years, the secret is in putting the right amount of flakes, too little makes it too thin, too much and it does thicken up too much. But once you find that balance you never go back, its my go to when its cold and I am seeking something warm and comforting.

Can we chat a sec about your t-shirt with the teeny strawberries?? ADORABLE!!

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

I found it at Old Navy last summer! They had a pink one printed with oranges too. Kinda kicking myself for not picking that one up as well. 😂

Man, watching your videos makes me feel like I’m spending time with a good friend! It feels warm and comforting, cozy and intimate. I just love your energy, and that we share the same passion for vintage cookbooks!

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! So glad you enjoy my videos. ☺

Salmon Pasta salad comes together easily. The Cucumber crunch with the salmon was a nice combo.

The salmon salad would be really delicious with either dill, or Trader Joe’s Green Goddess seasoning added! 😋

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

TJs Green Goddess seasoning is my fav! 😀

The music you have chosen today is so cute and reminds me of TV shows like "What's My Line!" I, too, enjoy all the graphics design in the older cookbooks. Such treasures. Sure enjoyed the recipes today!

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

I have so much fun choosing the music for my videos! 😂 Glad you enjoy it.

I think I would use Swiss cheese on the sandwich. I think I would add some canned corn to the soup (and celery!)

Anna, these recipes make me long for a time machine! I love what you’re doing over here! ❤

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Stephanie! Hope you have a great week. 🙂

That cookbook came out the year I was born, and I can attest that I am no longer in pristine condition either 🙂 I'm definitely going to make the open-faced sandwich, and mulling over the salmon pasta salad. Thanks for the new video.

I love your take on the self care and that quick soup. I also love your new green bowl. I acquired the large yellow Pyrex mixing bowl from my local thrift shop this week. I've been looking for that one for a long time in a shop. It reminds me of my dad. Every weekend, he used to make popcorn and fill that big bowl and sit and enjoy popcorn and sports on tv. He is gone now, and I never knew what happened to that bowl, but now I have one just like it! ❤

I'm so happy to have discovered your channel. I grew up with these recipes and love the memories (also, plan to try them again). I'm so tired of some other channels where the hosts are always so astonished by the fact that we ate these foods AND lived to talk about them! There are still a lot of us who grew up in the 40's, 50's, and 60's! Keep up the good work!

mom had the '54 book. Have not seen it in almost 50 years! Thank you! Your work/shows are all enjoyable and relatable since we're from the mid-west.

On a Sunday evening, with hymns playing on the radio, my mother used to grill open tomato sandwichs garnished with salt, cracked black pepper with a light sprinkling of white sugar. Delicious! 😊

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

What a nice memory! ❤

When I took all my moms cook books apart to put in binders i did them so you can still see the photos, drawings, and advertisements, they are always so pretty or cool to see.

My dear husband was born in 1954 and is STILL working. What about a luncheon series about lunch for taking to work? My husband is getting tired of PB & J and bologna.

@thomasvee5021

4 ай бұрын

I like this idea as well. I pack my lunch everyday for work - I find that my diet is better managed by doing that. But I run out of ideas.

@barbiec4312

4 ай бұрын

Ha ha. This sounds like you pack him PB&J and then give him “bologna”. 😂❤

@abunchahooey

4 ай бұрын

Please don’t wait for Anna to possibly make a work lunch video, find and prepare some different lunch ideas for your poor husband before he retires! 😂

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

I do have 'Lunchbox Ideas' on my list of videos I'd like to create!

I love your new green bowl.

@abunchahooey

4 ай бұрын

I covet her cookware and dishes 😂

@deyaneria

4 ай бұрын

@@abunchahooey I found I have a few of the same ones she does. I scour yardsales for old pyrex and corningware as well as old tupperware. But that green one is really eye catching!

The potato soup reminded me of cream of chicken Lipton Cup-a-Soup I used to make for myself when I came home from school. They didn't look great but tasted oh-so-good on a cold day. 😋

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

I have that very soup in my pantry! 😂 I like to keep that one, the Spring Vegetable, and Chicken Noodle on hand for sipping.

@cristywyndham-shaw5111

4 ай бұрын

@@cooking_the_books 😊🍵😊

I can remember my mom going through an open-faced sandwich craze in the early-mid 70’s!

Never thought of adding salmon to a pasta salad. Sounds delicious with the cucumber. This cookbook was one of my first purchases with Betty Crocker coupons many years ago. Wish I still had it.

@nuithlotte7840

4 ай бұрын

Personally, I haven't - yet - met a "cooled-down, lunchable carb" that did'nt go well with a bit of leftover/precooked salmon! *heart-eyes* #fish-lovers_unite!

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

There are facsimile copies out there! amzn.to/4coEQou Might be worth checking out.

@juliatepe5760

4 ай бұрын

Hi, I love salmon. Did you use fresh or canned? Thanks for your fun videos😊

My mom had that cookbook!! I think she still has it 🫣

I love your channel so much! (Even if my husband tells me NO MORE COOKBOOKS! every time I watch it.) I collect old cookbooks myself and get such joy watching you go through them also.

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you're enjoying my videos. ❤

Anna, your wonderful videos are beautiful additions to my Sundays! I hope you have a great week!

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! ❤ Hope you also have a great week.

Lunch is usually leftovers from dinner the night before for me, but that menu would certainly make a nice dinner too!

I grew up eating macaroni salad this way. Tuna instead of salmon, celery, onion, boiled egg and mayo. Served chilled. Lots of Paprika and black pepper on top. Still one of my favorite foods.

Anna you probably know but others may not but the design of the spatula that you were stirring the macaroni salad with in the first recipe is in two parts, usually. Most people don't realise the two parts come apart. Warning though, you will be shocked at the state of the spatula when you take it apart if it is a used one. I have replaced all my two part spatulas with designs that have one solid piece. But if they are pretty like your one you may need to include a bleaching session in your kitchen cleaning routine.

I love your appreciation of old cookbooks! They are wonderful. 🙂

Thank you for this video. I made the salmon-pasta salad for my lunches at work this week. Had to substitute grated carrots for cucumbers and onion powder for the grated onion - use what you have - it is delicious. Took all of 10 minutes to make. Love your videos. I am cooking more recipes out of my vintage cookbooks and it is so enjoyable. I am going to get my grand-daughter involved on the weekends. I think she will love this. I need to find the Cookie Book - that might be more to her liking.

Alwaaaays enjoy your videos 😊

The potato soup sounds like one that would travel well in a thermos which is a big plus for me. Enjoyed the video.

Love the thunder sounds...also love the smiley spoon and new green bowl for st Patricks day 🍀 great recipe picks, never thought about putting instant potatoes in soup

Just love watching your videos so much! I love your kind of snark about “some of you don’t like…” you know there are people out there who are never happy and have no lives and this is all they have to complain about. I feel sorry for those people but you handle them very well!

My grandmother was the queen of open-faced sandwiches. My favourite was always the bacon, tomato and cheese 😊❤

@serenatwilite4005

4 ай бұрын

I'm all about more tasty ingredients and less bread, interesting to know there's other folks who feel the same way.

The macaroni salad was common growing up from my dad - but only tuna, never ever salmon.

@janelleclark4458

4 ай бұрын

Yes, my MIL made tuna macaroni salad for every summer picnic meal. With celery! I'm going to try the salmon version once we get into warmer weather.

Aw yiss new videos from ya are the best part of Sundays! 😊

Hey there, I have a cookbook suggestion for you to check out if you're interested! It's called "Where's Mom Now That I Need Her", by Betty Rae Frandsen, from 1983. It's filled with simple, great recipes in one half and adulting advice in the other. It's great for new cooks and new grownups learning to get by. Such a great little book!

@Katy32344

4 ай бұрын

That sounds adorable!

I like that the potato soup flavor would change, depending on what package is used.

The two-color printing was often cheaper back in the day because it was literally two inks - black and the 'spot' color. Pre-digital printing it was a lot more work to do four-color (full-color) printing. The spot colors were also easier to get consistent. This was a fun video, as always!

Great choices, you brought it back to basics, showing the roots of what can be the more fussy modern versions of things like the pasta salad. A recipe that can be thrown together from pantry and fridge staples. The open faced sandwich looks great. And that simple easy to throw together potato soup. I agree it would be great in a mug, thrown together when you come home and need something to warm up, and it’s adaptable, use shallot instead of onion, maybe add garlic or a dash of nutmeg. This is an example of why I enjoy your videos so much Anna! Happy St Patrick’s day, by the way!

I add tuna fish to store bought mac and cheese for a quick lunch or dinner. My mom had made potato and onion soup that was great when we were ill.

I make a tuna salad like that for lunches. I make it on a Sunday and we each get a couple of lunches to take to work.

Full color illustrations were very expensive at that time. Even children’s picture books had most illustrations in 2 colors.

I just got my mom’s 1950 Betty Crocker original edition and have been cooking up a storm! Everything tastes like my grandma and mom. I love it so much. Just found your channel and been watching. ❤

@cooking_the_books

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and WELCOME! Happy to have you here! 😊

So awesome you got the bowls so cheap! A set of the primary colored bowls (5 or 6) went for $150 at an aution we we at yesterday. I told my daughter we must cherish our set even though we use 1 bowl daily!

My mother ate the open faced sandwich for as long as she could remember (b. 1946) and then made it for us. It’s one of our favorite meals, but she layered it differently. Toast, cheese, tomato, and bacon on top. My mom and I thought my grandmother made these up. She’d be shocked to find out it was from a cookbook.

I do really enjoy your channel and these three recipes strike me as something Betty Draper would make for lunch while smoking and on the phone. I see nothing wrong with that.

I bought that lovely book as well too. The 1950s one. Love it

Hi Anna! Happy St. Patrick's Day! Another fun video with easy lunch ideas! Thank you for sharing the cookbook with us! Always fun! Have a great rest of the day!❤

My great grandmother would make those tomato bacon sandwiches regularly during the summer because they were quick tasty and didn’t heat up the entire house. Couple differences tho the cheese was on top of the tomato and the bacon was raw and on top to cook. Most people I’ve met have never heard of them never mind tried them lol. So nice to see this recipe brought back wonderful ingredients

Omg, I was given that cookbook as a wedding present (in 1983) from a very nice old lady. I love some of the recipes in that book! The Good Brown Stew is delicious!

@biolbd

4 ай бұрын

Mine is the 1954 version, just like yours, but pretty beat up.

Hmm, is that a pentagram Betty snuck on the New version? Betty's got a wild side😂

@ladywytch129

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

Wow! I love potato soup. I will definitely be trying this one. 😋😋😋

I enjoyed this video, especially the potato soup and open face sandwich. You do a great job with the recipes, and I enjoy how you go through the cookbooks at the end. Your toaster oven is adorable.

Hi Anna! Great video. What I like most about your videos is the way you describe the recipes after tasting. You are very honest about what your taste buds are experiencing (if that makes sense) I also like the giggly Anna when you're describing the illustrations and layouts of your cook books. ( BTW we are experiencing Michigan's Bi-polar ness too! It snowed pretty good here today)

Both of these would be great for camping!

Thanks for the video, Anna. You are becoming a part of my Sundays.

Great show today! Such a cute book and I agree how cool it is how the 54 and 62 books kinda of look the same.

Going to try the macaroni salad with tuna. Thanks for sharing! 💚🍀

My mom makes tuna macaroni salad. Different ingredients but we love it.

If I am going to make lunch at home I go either with egg salad, deli sliced meats and cheese or leftovers microwaved. The Mac salad looked really good and yes, bacon, tomato and cheese is a fabulous combination. I always roast off a pound of bacon at one time. I refrigerate half and freeze half.

I’m always so thrilled to see your videos in my feed!

I am on a very strict low ( less than 1000 mg per day) sodium diet to try to get my blood pressure under control. Potatoes have no sodium and I like them without salt, so I make potato soup a lot. I make it with whole milk. I add onion and garlic powder and black pepper. I add more potato flakes because I like it thicker.

Great ideas, especially the soup. I can see myself making that on a rainy afternoon.

I love everything about that book. On my list to find…it’s so cute!

That green bowl 😍

I added celery seed to the salmon mac salad..:)

I do the salad with tuna, onion, and shredded carrots.

Love it when you use and make recipes from cookbooks that I have. Looks great! Thanks

Yay, that’s my book❤ Betty Crocker is very tasty☕️💕

That salmon salad looks delicious

@cooking_the_books

3 ай бұрын

It was so good! I loved the extra flavor the salmon added.

Thanks for the ideas, Anna. I actually love making that type of broiled open-faced sandwich. You can use so many different combinations with your choice of meat, cheese and other toppings and it's almost as good as a grilled panini, but without needing the press. And I do miss those midwestern thunderstorms sometimes.

This is my mother's cookbook!!! Time for me to get a copy 😊 I 1st learned how to cook from this book. Thank you Anna for today's post.😊

Anna, I’ve JUST discovered your channel and I freaking love it! I always see maaaaany vintage cookbooks while I’m thrifting and even though I LOVE cooking, LOVE vintage anything, and LOVE learning about how people ate before I was born (1981), as I comb through them the recipes often look repulsive and just do NOT make sense in my pretty experienced home cook brain. Your videos are so interesting and entertaining and who knows…maybe next time I’m thrifting I’ll be brave and give one a go. Thanks for your fun, entertaining, interesting channel and for sharing your GREAT personality with us!

YUM!!! That salad and soup look killer and I’m all in on trying such a simple fast soup! Yes! Mug soup! Thank you, Anna! 🙂✨

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome! Thank you for watching! ❤

My Mom made the first salad a lot during the 70's and 80's. I always loved it. She used tuna in place of the salmon and used celery in hers. (I know, your favorite! ) Think I will make it this week. It's been awhile.

that's where our family recipe came from! we add tomatoes and do tuna but my mom said they used salmon for years but went to tuna

OMG Love that beautiful green bowl! ❤❤❤

great recipes! i will definitely try them all :-) I'll be on the lookout for that cookbook in our thrift stores-looks great! I would put a little cheese, bacon bits and hot sauce in the potato soup! Spring thunderstorms-love them

These were great recipes. I love salmon, too!

The salmon salad will be nice. I enjoy Salmon with mayo sandwiches. A pitch of dill herb and couple drops of lemon juice in the salad would be good too. I love tomatoes and cheese open toasties.

Your open-faced sandwich reminds me of an appetizer my M-I-L made years ago and we still like it. Take Ritz crackers, top with a slice of Roma tomato (it fits) and a thin square of cheese (I like cheddar) cut to fit. Stick it in the toaster oven until the cheese melts. Actually, I bet it would be even better with bacon!

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

Sounds wonderful! 😋

That Macaroni Salmon salad was a treasure. Many variations, with different small pasta like I did and herbs can be used. I did the veal and it's a keeper and repeater for me. Didn't like the canned Salmon, but will try with fresh Salmon. Simple and easy are watch words for me. Hope to see more of these from you. And I doubt you will disappoint. 😋

Happy St. Patrick’s Day Anna 🍀 Your video is a wonderful treat of joy for the day. I’m gonna be on the hunt for the 1954 edition. I am so looking forward to trying all three of these. I especially love the open-faced sammy 🍞🥓🍅🧀 (even though I’d just call it toast 🤭

@janelleclark4458

4 ай бұрын

Ooh, I looove egg salad on toast! Glad to know I'm in good company. 😊

@cooking_the_books

4 ай бұрын

I looove egg salad on toast too! 😋

I have heard of using potato flakes as a quickie way to make potato soup. I saw this video the other day, and decided to give it a whirl, and it was delicious. I didn’t have any onion, but I did have butter and garlic and milk and I just made a huge batch of chicken broth that I wanted to use. I added a little cream cheese and American cheese and sour cream. This would be great topped with bacon and cheddar cheese, or green onion, too!. So much easier doing it this way than having to chop and peel and cook the potatoes. You have to have a lot of patience when you do potato soup with real potatoes.this is just so convenient and delicious and comforting. Thanks for sharing the recipe!. Also, I had one of those mini boxes of hashbrowns from the dollar tree, and after I dried them out after letting them soak in water, per instructions on the box, I sautéed them in a skillet for a little bit and then added them to the soup in addition to the potato flags. That will make it a little bit more substantial. They are all potato flakes, just dehydrated, potatoes, and the flakes and the shredded hashbrowns make it more substantial. I always try to personalize recipes that I see or watch.

Love the videos. Love the books. I have a request, if it's not to much trouble. Would you please put the recipe page numbers in the description for those of us who happen to have the book?

All 3 recipes looked great..i enjoy Betty Crocker cookbooks as well. Love your videos & tips.🌷

Love this idea for salmon, thank you!

Great lunch ideas! You could also crumble a piece of bacon in the soup. Or maybe add some cubed ham. I guess I’m saying ham because I often keep a small ham in my fridge.

I enjoyed the video, I definitely will try that soup, it’s so different than anything I make.