Table Talk

By cee

October 17, 2006 09:11 AM | Link to this

This cookbook was my first - given to me by late husband in 1953….as a Christmas present from our little 2 month old baby… The recipes are good - especially the cakes…I still cook from it - it and Fannie Farmer’s which belonged to my late mother in law are still used….if you don’t have Mrs. Dull’s cookbook, you surely need to buy one. And it isn’t for the faint of heart who swoon when the word butter is mentioned!

By Becky

October 18, 2006 08:48 AM | Link to this

My mom was a great cook, and although she learned a lot of recipes from her mother, as a young wife she used Mrs. Dull’s cookbook to round out her cooking skills. I still have her well-thumbed 1941 edition and occasionally use it myself. It’s delightful to read that Mrs. Dull’s cookbook is still around and is appreciated…and hasn’t been totally lost to the ages.

By Carol

October 18, 2006 12:28 PM | Link to this

My mother was employed at JPAllen and Company, and her supervisor was Miss Ethel Dull.Miss Dull, the daughter of Mrs. S.R. Dull, was a very special lady who showered me with the books and magazines I loved to read. Mrs.S.R. Dull gave my mother a copy of her first cookbook as a wedding present whe she and daddy married in 1942. I still have that original cookbook and people still marvel at the recipes such as the one for possum!

Carol Dunaway

By Alan Toney

October 18, 2006 01:45 PM | Link to this

My mom died a few years back and I took her death like a man, no tears from me. One day while I was in the middle of making Brunswick stew, without thinking I picked up the phone, just like I’d done a 1000 times before, and called her for advice. When I realized she wasn’t going to answer, I broke down. Tears streaming I went to her cookbooks that I had stored in a box and there it was in a little box to help preserve it was her well-worn copy of Mrs. Dull’s. The cover was missing but her notes still visible in the margins along with many additional recipes on various scraps of paper she had inserted among the pages. I turned to Brunswick stew and began to read first recipe, which is usually the oldest most traditional one. It started off something about boiling a hogshead for four hours before removing the teeth. My tears turned to laughter, hum maybe second recipe would work better then I whispered thanks mom. I still refer to Mrs. Dull’s regularly; it always makes me feel like mom is there guiding me along.

By Rob Forbes

October 18, 2006 06:35 PM | Link to this

I have my grandmother’s copy of Mrs. Dull’s cookbook and use it regularly. I can easily remember all of the good meals that my grandmother had that were based on Mrs. Dull’s recipes. The Black Fruit cake is to die for. I don’t usually like fruit cakes, but that one has so much stuff in it and so many nuts in it, it is truly delicious. This takes me back to my fond childhood days.

By Tracey

October 18, 2006 06:42 PM | Link to this

In my family, there were cookbooks, and there was THE cookbook. Two Mrs. Dull’s copies are on my shelf, the original and the re-issue, in case I need a backup. Thank goodness for Foxfire and Mrs. Dull’s to preserve so many recipes from ‘old-timey’ days.