Any Chef's or bakers around? Looking for old cookbooks with recipes for baking.

[doe moe]

To be more specific, I'm looking for old skool black folk recipe books. (most times our elders had the recipe already programmed in their brain and never measure, for them it was an exact science)

I come from a line of bakers, I got my start helping in the kitchen around 10 years old.

I'm sick of store brought treats and decided to start baking healthier items with wholesome ingredients.

My shit is dope but I want to expand my options. My carrot cake, blueberry muffins, lemon loaf cake, and sweet potato pies are BEAST!!

So far my best product is banana nut bread.

Like most black folks, not much was passed down from my Grandmother. My very own mother lost her cookbook over the years which is the one I grew up using to help her bake.

When I hit up Google and Amazon for cookbooks it's all white washed. I need that fire only black folks can create.

This summer I'm making it my business to hit up any black yard sale specifically looking for old skool baking cookbooks from the 50's, 60's and 70's.

 

[tallblacknyc]

Go on YouTube.. plenty of recipes and vids on there

 

[knightmelodic]

Hmm. With the price of eggs?

Oh wait, con tramp and king elon will take care of that.

Anyway, I don't know of any Black cookbooks from that time. Most of my recipes are handwritten. The passed-down cookbooks are by white people but have lots of notations by my ancestors.

Google will give you a bunch of "Black" options as will the river but as a baker/cook you should know you always follow the recipe the first time and then taste-test. Next time you adjust ingredients and make notes. And so on. So it really doesn't matter whether it's a white or black cookbook. Cooking/baking is a chemical reaction. It's science. And you can't change that. There are no "black secrets." If you've been baking long enough you already know things most people don't - like reactions of certain chemicals or scoop and level instead of pack. The flavor or taste is determined by you. Experiment. That's how it goes.

I get a lot of "starter" ideas from Sally's Baking Addiction website. Then I adjust to my taste. The NY Times online cookbook also has a bazillion recipes.

Good luck.

I also think @Camille is or was in charge of the cooking forum. She might be able to help.

 

[mcguyver]

@Camille

 

[oskie]

my moms cookbook is at her house in the kitchen on index cards. I dont care how many times my wife and daughter try to make something the taste aint there.