The first thing I ever baked was a batch of Bisquick chocolate chip cookies. The recipe was in a yellow cookbook, a promotional item to market Bisquick . The book was cheaply made and already falling apart when I got my hands on it. The cardboard cover was hanging off the metal spiral binding and the pages were splattered with batter and stained with vanilla extract.
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to The Cozy Library to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.