Carrie Gamble has been a friend for quite some time now and she very generously offered us this cookbook for the giveaway.
To enter, visit Carrie's site at http://www.grandmotherscookbook.com/ Take a look at the family love letter and post here something you learned from the love letter.
For an additional entry, follow me on twitter, http://twitter.com/audreyokaneko then post another comment letting me know your user name and that you're now following me.
For a third entry, blog about this contest and post a comment with the URL to the post.
This contest closes at midnight October 31st, 2008, pacific time. Contest is open to anyone with a U.S. mailing address and over the age of 18.
More giveaways at the Bloggy Giveaways Quarterly Carnival!
Good luck to everyone!!
Audrey :)
After her father died she was inspired to have her grandmother write down her recipes. I've been in this situation before with my own mother and my mother in law-all of their recipes were lost when they died. I now take the time to write down my family's favorites so they can be passed down to my own daughter. This cookbook sounds wonderful and I would love to win it. Thank you for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteAs I was reading I realized just how much I miss the family dinners. Tables laden with southern food, prepared with love...nothing can be better. I am queenesperfect at yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI am trying to cook more for my family! I think it is so important to share meals with your family!
ReplyDeleteAt fifteen Elizabeth moved from the family farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania to live and work at a doctor's residence in Philadelphia.
I love that she wanted to preserve the recipes that she knew and loved. I think family dinners are something a lot of people take for granted. I think it's so important to come together and share your day's experiences with each other as you share a delicious meal. I have recipes that I grew up with, and the ones in my mom's writing, I will cherish.
ReplyDeleteAwesome giveaway. Thanks!
To take the time to spend with your loved ones and learn about their life. monk5@charter.net
ReplyDeleteOh, this makes me miss my Polish grandmother - and my mother - and our holidays together cooking in one kitchen. Thank you for the link to the letter, and for the contest.
ReplyDeletechappyandalexa [at] earthlink [dot] net
Grandma lived in Bucks COunty! Thats where my grandmother's family lived (back in the late 1700s before they moved out west.) And I really liked the cooking together because the mom didn't know enough english.
ReplyDeleteThe Love Letter made me long for the Christmas Eve's when my great grandmother, grandmother, mother, and I would all cook for the rest of the family. Soups, stews, sandwiches, desserts, etc...all made with love. My great grandmother has since passed and my grandmother suffered a stroke that has left her unable to help, but my mother & I continue to cook and one day, I hope to include my own daughters.
ReplyDeleteMany of the recipes are inspired by her Austrian-Hungarian heritage. Delightful cookbook! Thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteMegret
musesofmegret (at) gmail (dot) com
I learned about "Feather Bed" rolls. I know it says all grandmothers made them, guess someone forgot to tell my grandma...lol. They sound yummy though
ReplyDeleteIt made me look forward to our upcoming family Holiday Dinners together. And it made me want to make "Grandma's Sugar Cookies".
ReplyDeletelivlifelov at yahoo dot com
makes me think i need to cook more! i have a lot of family in PA, too.
ReplyDeleteandrewandkristan(at)hotmail(dot)com
t details the creation of Grandmother's Cookbook and describes Elizabeth's fascinating life and love of family, cooking and nature.
ReplyDeletelilacbutterfly [at] earthlink.net
I love that it includes watercolors of flowers Elizabeth loved and Carrie painted. What a beautiful picture!
ReplyDeleteI love the fact she says a meal(soup) is complete with huge cinnimon buns or apple cakes, how cool is that, I loved loved loved the pictures included it makes you feel like you are there with her.
ReplyDeletestormy5475@aol.com
I thought that it was so sweet that her daughter hand wrote the cookbook because having it typed just didn't fit.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the AWE-some Give-oh-Way!
audrajjensen(at)msn.com
I love homemade cookbooks! I hope I win :)
ReplyDeleteI also added you to my Twitter. My name is Roweena on there. :)
ReplyDeleteA family cookbook is like a love letter to one's family. What a great line, it really makes me want to start something like this for my family. The recipes sound really good, I really want to try Lemon Sponge Pie! Thanks so much for the giveaway!
ReplyDeletemattandjen[at]gmail.com
I learned how important it is to keep family recipes in the family. My DD and I love to cook together. It builds wonderful memories.
ReplyDeleteI learned that there is an entire chapter devoted to Dumplings and Noodles...which I thought was very cool. I'd love to have some of those homemade recipes!
ReplyDeleteelizardbreath8@hotmail.com
"a family cookbook is like a love letter to your family"
ReplyDeletewhat a great line.....says it all, doesn't it?
please throw my name in the hat for this awesome giveaway! good luck everyone!
I have so many memories of PA, spending time with family and friends,and this gorgeous letter made me long for those times.
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I learned that she grew up nearby ! I know Doylestown. It makes it so much easier reading that and being able to picture it. It is quite an idyllic town in a sense.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely cookbook this would be. I miss my mothers cooking and my grandmothers. I need to pass some special dishes down to my boys.
I'm now following you on Twitter. My name is imabrat.
ReplyDeleteI love the fact that it is hand-written!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the giveaway!
kerin0874 (at) yahoo (dot) com
It just reaffirmed for me how important family is and those special memories you make.
ReplyDeleteHer mother never heard of a pie?! Their first pie was butterscotch, but before that they made tarts made with lots of eggs and leavening. And here I thought pie had been around forever!
ReplyDeleteThe cookbook sounds wonderful. Thank you for offering it!
I love how the book not only has yummy recipes but the memories that come with them...like she says "nestalgic"
ReplyDeleteI loved the recipe for the Hungarian Peasant Meal. It sounded delicious and I will have to try it out. The Feather Beds recipe sounded delidious as well. The family history was interesting as well.
ReplyDeletecherierj(at)yahoo(dot)com
KawaiiNeko2008 (at) aol (dot) com
ReplyDeleteThe importance of love and family :-)
I love that she is preserving her families recipes. Would love to win this one.
ReplyDeleteIt was inspired by a desire to live life the old-fashioned way preserving the feel-good foods and memories associated with them.
ReplyDeleteI just love this endearing cookbook!
doot65[at]comcast[dot]net
Elizabeth
I follow you on Twitter. (blueviolet)
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Elizabeth
I blogged here
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Elizabeth
I love that Elizabeth's birthday was April 1st!!!
ReplyDeleteI like that it's handwritten. I would love to win this prize. Really nice prize to give. Thanks for the chance.
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It made me think of how close families once were. And that many aren't that way anymore. We're texting or emailing but that personal touch is just lost in things. I also think it's a good idea to keep a running family cookbook. Jot down those favorite recipes from family members. It helps relive those wonderful memories.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
God bless,
Amanda
jesusluvsu2005 at gmail dot com
Elizabeth had an Austrian-Hungarian mother.
ReplyDeleteDeborah
dbstout{at}juno{dot}com
This has inspired me to have more sit down dinners with my entire family in attendance!! Thanks for the inspiration!!
ReplyDeleteCarrie, a commercial
ReplyDeleteartist and illustrator, together with her grandmother, Elizabeth
von Hohen, wrote the
Grandmother's Cookbook.
Many of the recipes are inspired by her Austrian-Hungarian heritage. I think I would love this cookbook..very touching!!
Carrie handwrote Elizabeth's recipes which I can only imagine was tedious work, but a great gift.
ReplyDeleteit made me realize just how distant families are now, despite the fact that some live in the same house hold. i'd love to have this, it sounds very heartwarming :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for a generous giveaway. I hope I'm the lucky winner.
We are so fortunate to have most of our family reasonably close by. Just the same, we don't get together as often as I would like. I am trying to write down all of our favorite recipes to have for the future generations.
ReplyDeleteVery generous giveaway! Thanks for the chance. Its pages are embellished by the watercolors of the wildflowers Elizabeth picked with her child's hands, lovingly painted by Carrie's steady ones. A small story or reminiscence written by Elizabeth accompanies each one.
ReplyDeleteI've always loved reading great cook books and this looks like a winner, thanks for the wonderful giveaway and would love to win
ReplyDeleteI love that she thought her hubby looked like her favorite actor. So cute.
ReplyDeletewow sounds like a grate cook book i love to try and win this thanks
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great giveaway!!! Please count me in!
ReplyDeletegerijones64@hotmail.com
It makes me realize how much we miss by skipping that whole sitting down to dinner together thing!!
My grandmother was the one that taught me to cook!! I just wish I would have paid more attention to all of her recipes!! (They were all in her head... and no one took the time to write them down) so if it wasn't one I made more than once... it is lost!! O how hind site is 20/20!! Terrible what we take for granted!! I have started a cookbook of my own! I write down every recipe... so my great great grands can know what I cooked... which ones were my favorites!! (because of all the food stains!!) lol. But there will not be anymore lost recipes here!! I think it great that she took the time!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing!! :D And I would love to win one too!! Thanks dear!
http://whatscookninjunk.blogspot.com/
Elizabeth was an April Fool's baby!
ReplyDeleteI would love to win this cookbook.
Hi there! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity. I'm giving away a rhinestone cluster ring on my blog. Feel free to come drop your name in the hat. :) I'm having giveaways all week, actually!
ReplyDeleteI'm following you on twitter now, too! jennvincent
ReplyDeleteI think it's pretty neat that she had her grandmother write them all down.
ReplyDeleteBoy, did the letter hit home. I have been meaning to get family members to write down recipes and now I know I have to do it!
ReplyDeleteI think it's interesting that they did not make pies & that the 1st one they made way butterscotch (my favorite)!
ReplyDeletea steaming bowl of potato or vegetable soup makes a wonderful
ReplyDeleteone-dish meal when followed by a hearty dessert of "cinnamon
buns, apple cakes, or strawberry shortcake."
Thank you!
janetfaye at (gmail) (dot) com
I follow you on Twitter.
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janetfaye at (gmail) (dot) com
I learned that family recipes are special!
ReplyDeleteWhat I learned - I liked reading about the fresh raspberry jam and
ReplyDeletebutter. This reminded me of my grandmother who made homemade jam and churned butter. Thanks for the giveaway. semtaylor(at)yahoo.com
I learned that even recipes hold alot of memories- of course alot of love too thanks mrs.mommyyatgmail.com
ReplyDeleteher daughter hand wrote the cookbook because having it typed just didn't fit
ReplyDeleteWow, this makes me miss my grandmother so much, when I think of her, I think of her cooking, and I like to think I got my love of cooking from her, I'm pretty positive that I did, and I wish she was still here so we could cook together.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, great giveaway, and thanks for the chance to win!
thewondermomma @ gmail.com
A person's cooking "sharpens" as more practice is done with cooking.
ReplyDeleteohhh...i love cookbooks.
ReplyDeletereinforcing the importance of having your family sit down and eat together. nice giveaway.
thanks,
debi
djohnson@catcrew.com
I thought it was very sweet that her cookbook has flowers pressed between the pages! Thank you for this giveaway, this sounds like a wonderful cook book.
ReplyDeleteAngela
itsahumanzoo at hotmail dot com
I definitely plan on having "family sit down dinners" at least several times a week when we have a family. It is such an important time! I would love to win! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteGrandmother was one of 8 siblings - a fact I noticed having 9 children of my own! This looks like a lovely cookbook - I would love to win!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much!
To take the time to spend with your loved ones and learn about their life
ReplyDeleteWow, what a great book. There are so many wonderful attributes to the love letter, but I think most importantly is the love of family and tradition.
ReplyDeleteI don't twitter, but you are in my google reader.
I learned that I really miss being with my family and its so important to take advantage of that while you can
ReplyDeleteCooking is getting to be a lost art, I can relate to this post from the book " Her hope is that "all of these special old fashioned recipes will not become a lost art."
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jen62728@aol.com
Carrie hand letter the book herself which she self published.
ReplyDeleteI would love to win this I love cookbooks.
Please enter me in your contest. manyblessing@gmail.com
I love and can really relate to how much her grandmother means to her. Also the importance of getting copies of family recipes really hit home to me.
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f it was first published in 1990 amd is still in rint it must be good.
ReplyDeleteTo take the time to spend with your loved ones and learn about their life.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the chance...the cookbook sounds fabulous! I also have a giveaway on my blog so come check it out!
Have a great week!
My Mother-in-law is a fabulous cook and I am always after her to write her recipes down to pass down to us. Certain dishes she makes are her signature dishes that she is known for, but they are all in her head and not on paper. It reminded me to hound her again to write them down so we can pass them down to the next generation before they are lost. Thanks so much for doing this for us!
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When Eliabeth was little, her mom could not read English so they did all the cooking together, thus igniting her interest in cooking. This is such a great giveaway. I have been after my mom to put her recipes down on paper but she tells me she does everything by taste, so how do you put that on a recipe card?
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If only I was able to get all of my Grandmothers recipes before she passed on. This recipe book looks AMAZING!!
ReplyDeleteThis letter made me miss my parants and grand parents so much There is only 1 brother and me and he has no children sounds like a wonderful cookbook and family
ReplyDeleteBonnie in FL
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As I was reading it reminded me of my DH's grandmother who used to save every recipe she came across! And I thought about the time that is just slipping by and how important it is to sit down to the table and have dinner with my own family!
ReplyDeleteI loved that she stood her ground and had the cookbook printed in handwriting instead of typed. I think this gives the recipes a more authentic feel.
ReplyDeleteI too miss the family gatherings with all of the children running and playing outside and the adults chattering away in the living room and kitchen. We used to do this every Sunday after church and I would love to have my children experience that family unity.
I learned how to be creative and to improvise when cooking and baking and to adapt to new things by depending upon what I currently know. Elizabeth's mother was unfamiliar with many American recipes and dishes, but she used what she knew to try making some of the unknown, including cakes and pies. She was not afraid to try new things.
ReplyDeleteI always knew that having my family sit down together for the evening meal was very important, but the love letter just reenforced that idea more.
ReplyDeleteI learned that the cookbook is done in Carrie's handwriting of Elizabeth's words to preserve the warmth and family feel.Carrie is a typesetter, but type seemed too cold for the warmth of this project.
ReplyDeletebabychooch (at) gmail {dot} com
Wow, she started cooking for her family when she was 9. I have an 8 year old and I cannot imagine her cooking our family a meal. Thanks for the great giveaway.
ReplyDeletemcginnis135 at bellsouth dot net
Family meals-they are sooo important!
ReplyDeleteshoreview3(at)hotmail(dot)com
I like that it's hand written makes it feel personal. i would love to win this cookbook, I kinda need all the help i can get!
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I learned that she started writing these down after her father died.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like there are some fantastic recipes here.
This cookbook is wonderful. Makes me remember to cherish each moment with mmy family.
ReplyDeleteI love that Elizabeth wanted to learn to make the things that her schoolmates brought for lunch.
ReplyDeletecharlotte(dot)evard(at)comcast(dot)net
Thats rly awesome.
ReplyDeleteI'm going 2 college 2 b a chef.
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~Peace Out!
I love the simplicity of grandma's recipes--simple ingredients, prepared with love. We tend to make everything so complicated these days--even have test kitchens and cooking shows. But what we all really need is a grandma to show us the basics and fill us up with love, as well as yummy food. What a keepsake!
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful giveaway that I hope very much to win. I downloaded the love letter and learned some advice given in the cookbook: "that a steaming bowl of potato or vegetable soup makes a wonderful one-dish meal when followed by a hearty dessert of "cinnamon
ReplyDeletebuns, apple cakes, or strawberry shortcake."
Valerie
mgvhmassey at comcast dot net
In the late 1960s, when Carrie Gamble
ReplyDeletewas still sporting a pixie, The Homestead, the farmhouse where her grandmother grew up, was torn down to
build a ranch house.
This book looks wonderful, and has such a wonderful story behind it. Thank you not only for the chance to win it, but for leading me to it.
Just joined twitter. My username is Sherylinn.
ReplyDeleteIt made me miss my grandmother! She was the bestest cook in the world!
ReplyDeleteI'm a Twitterer: svrmomof6
ReplyDeleteWhat a loving child Elizabeth was. Precious that she would send money home to 'purchase' all the love that could be sent in an envelope back to her.
ReplyDeleteAs a grandma, I would truly LOVE this cookbook!
Thanks,
Deborah in NC
She hand lettered the type because regular type seemed too cold.
ReplyDeleteGrandma lived in Bucks County. I lived in Bucks County as well.
ReplyDeleteA family cookbook is like a love letter to a family. I love it!
ReplyDeleteGotta love cookbooks!! What a great idea to have someone write them all down!!
ReplyDeleteI thought it was sweet that her mother would send her wildflowers by mail so she'd know she was remembered. My son is living in Japan...I think I'll send him some autumn leaves. asthenight at gmail dot com
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the part about being inspired to ask her Grandmother for the family recipes. My husband's grandmother passed without anybody getting her favorites and I still cannot figure out how to make cornbread the way she did!
ReplyDeleteI think preserving one's family history and identity through cooking is a sentiment most of us share. I'd love to add some of these recipes to my family's kitchen since my own mom did not cook much and I have had to start from scratch.
ReplyDeleteJen
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a family cookbook is like a love letter to your family...i love that!!!
ReplyDeleteI just gave my daughter her first cookbook and she was so happy. Cookbooks are the best ,because the memories will be made along with the food.Count me in to win this awesome contest
ReplyDeletematternu@aol.com
a family cookbook (recipes) is like a love letter to your family....
ReplyDeleteTo take the time to spend with loved ones and learn about their life. In my case you never know what tomorrow will bring. Thanks for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteNina
NinaGonzalez0430@yahoo.com
I didn't know there was such a thing as a roll called a "feather bed." Sounds like a must-try!
ReplyDeleteI learned that a "feather bed roll" is a food item and not just a place to sleep!
ReplyDeleteA feather bed is apparently a food?
ReplyDeletemommyhoodisthankless{AT}gmail.com
I am the only one who can make one of my grandmothers traditional holiday dishes. I understand how important it is to pass them down
ReplyDeleteIt made me realize how much I miss getting together with my family for dinners, I am looking forward to the holidays to have a big dinner with them.
ReplyDeleteloves2shop712@earthlink.net
Oh I loved the watercolors - simply beautiful and the fact that she wrote the recipes - what an undertaking of love. Thanks for the great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteshe wanted to preserve the recipes that she knew and loved-eating meals together as a family is so important
ReplyDeletetiramisu392 (at) yahoo.com
Not only is it a cookbook, it is a family history.
ReplyDeleteladymeme123@aol.com
What a beautiful family history. I thought "feather beds" were for sleeping:) They sound delicious. Thank you for the great read and for the chance to win such a wonderful cookbook.
ReplyDeletebethany.hollander@us.army.mil
I want to "Experience "living life the old fashioned way" "
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I realized how each person in a family can touch the lives of all the other members, even long after they are gone.
ReplyDeletethis love letter so reminded me of my mamaw's (great aunt)...I grew up hearing stories of "the farm"...I was blessed and got to visit a couple of times...mamaw would make chicken n dumplins for me as I would snap the green beans we had just harvested...I would so be blessed by this book...I have also marked the page so that I can pick up some for my family.
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I thought it was so interesting that the first pie her mother had eaten was a Butterscotch one!
ReplyDeleteWonderful site, she use to live in Bucks Co. Penn.
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I found it interesting that she has a recipe for Sausage Bean Chowder that is ver similar to mine. It is not a common recipe, at least not in this area.
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I thought it was interesting how the death of her father inspired her to request that her grandmother write down her recipes. I wish I had asked my grandmother to do that! I am now typing out my recipes for my little blessings! I have many of my mother's recipes, but not my grandmothers!
ReplyDeleteThis would be a wonderful giveaway to win!
Sweet blessings!
I ha actually been trying to put together recipes from my grandmother so that my sisters and I would all have them. I would have loved for my grandmother to be able to write stories to go with the recipes.
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing! I'm a cookbook fiend anyway, but throw in some geneology/family history and you've got me hook, line and sinker! I'm hoping to work with my mother on a project like this soon as well!
ReplyDeleteI think I must try the "Feather Bed" recipe... it sounds yummy!
ReplyDeleteI found that I'm going to read this to my husband to talk him into buying me a new kitchen table for us to eat at as a family :)
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I love that she turned down the publishers and published the book herself in her own handwriting.
ReplyDeleteI learned that us as a family need to spend more time together and appreciate each other and what we have to offer each other. Time for family dinners without the darn tv going in the background.
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Loved that she published the book in her own handwriting!
ReplyDeleteHer grandmother did something that I want to do for my (eleven) children: write little notes or stories to go with treasured family recipes, and make a cookbook for each one of them.
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds like it would be just as much fun to sit down and read as it would be to cook from.
Thanks for the chance!
Following you on twitter, now...my name is daisyaday.
ReplyDeleteNice giveaway!!
love the idea. I was able to get the recipes from my one grandmother but missed the chance to get the ones she knew and didn't write down. wish i could turn back the clock and get those as well.
ReplyDeleteI am just now learning how important family history is and that includes the recipes passed down from generation to generation. This cookbook is a testament to her family history and a love letter in itself to her grandmother. I sure do hope I win, if not I intend to buy a book.
ReplyDeleteI learned they shared the same belief as my grandmother about the importance of a family eating meals together. I also learned her grandmother did what mine did, press flowers between pages of books.
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