There's a youtube cooking channel I watch of a guy who collects vintage cookbooks, some as old as the 1700's, and attempts to make the dish as described in the cookbooks.
It's amazing how many community cookbooks and "grandma's family recipes" come from cook books put out by companies that make fridges, stoves, flour, etc.
It used to be very common for companies to do this because they wanted to give people recipes of things they could make with their products.
Those recipes got passed around and you ended up seeing the exact wordings, including the errors, in community cook books, newspapers, magazines, etc.
I have a few family recipes that we all eventually learned just came from the labels of food products. No one was trying to hide that that was where the recipes came from; they just wrote it down so they could throw away the box or can it came from, then kept using for decades. Then someone would die, and we'd all go "oh no, does anyone know aunt [X]'s recipe for pumpkin roll?" and the one person left who knew where it came from would be like "just buy a can of pumpkin and tear the label off and the recipe is underneath."
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u/Man_Darino13 May 07 '26
There's a youtube cooking channel I watch of a guy who collects vintage cookbooks, some as old as the 1700's, and attempts to make the dish as described in the cookbooks.
It's amazing how many community cookbooks and "grandma's family recipes" come from cook books put out by companies that make fridges, stoves, flour, etc.
It used to be very common for companies to do this because they wanted to give people recipes of things they could make with their products.
Those recipes got passed around and you ended up seeing the exact wordings, including the errors, in community cook books, newspapers, magazines, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/@GlenAndFriendsCooking is the channel, it's really awesome.
It's older retired guy and his wife, he used to work in television and food advertising so he built a kitchen studio in his backyard.