My favorite is also the Thanksgiving special. When my daughter was in kindergarten, her teacher actually let them watch the show and she made them the same dinner while they watched. I was honestly so jealous.
I bought that cookbook in 5th grade from the Scholastic Book Club through my elementary school in Los Angeles in 1969-70. When I saw the thumbnail I had a vague memory of making these as soon as the book arrived (the books got delivered to school). Very sincere cookies as I recall.
The Thanksgiving special is woefully underrated. When my daughters were little, they would laugh hysterically at the scene where Snoopy gets stuck in the garage door and wrestles the folding chair.
Omg, I had this cookbook as a girl. Ordered it from the Scholastic book club at school. I made the Divine Divinity, which was a complete flop. If you look in that book there’s a Snoopy dog food recipe that includes an egg mixed into the dog food. I did that, and my dog was super happy. I read those pink-paged recipes over and over as a kid. 😊
I have a Snoopy & The Gang Out West cookbook, 1982/1983, I bought it in San Francisco while on vacation in 1983, I don't think I've ever cooked any of the recipes in it, still looks new! 😄
He thanksgiving special is our favorite as well. When we got married my husband worked in retail, so never had time off on thanksgiving because of black Friday. For the first few years I'd go to the big family dinner, either at his parents or at mine, and bring him home a plate of food. After our son was born it started being hitting both dinners, still without my husband because grandparents wanted to spend time with the baby. Neither family was willing to adjust their dinner time so my husband could be included in the meal. My son also had a lot of food allergies so I was basically cooking everything and bringing our own food so we could eat. I got tired of it by the time my son was 2 and told both families we wouldn't be joining them. I was thinking about what to do to make the day fun for muy toddler when I remembered Charlie Brown's thanksgiving. So I bought jelly beans and expensive gluten free bread and pretzel sticks, we popped popcorn and made toast. We had our own little fun dinner. No rush or massive cooking, just simple and fun. My husband hasn't worked retail in 12 years, but we still have our Charlie Brown thanksgiving every year. I thought we might be getting ready to be done with it a few years agp, but the now 14 year old has already reminded me I need to buy jelly beans. We've even passed the tradition on to his cousins whom we rarely get to see at thanksgiving because of distance. I send out care packages with jellybeans and they all get together via zoom or FaceTime and eat their toast, popcorn, jelly beans and pretzel sticks while the Charlie Brown thanksgiving special plays in the background in all our homes.
I wish I still had this book! It was a big part of my loving to read cookbooks to this day. I was not allowed to make the lemon lollipops because mom thought it was too dangerous, but I made the cinnamon toast. At my house when we dropped cookie dough by the teaspoonful, we used our place setting teaspoons rather than measuring teaspoons. Did anyone else do that?
Yep, placesetting teaspoons all the way. Small post-war ranch house didn't have big kitchens, even if those scoops had been commercially available, these practical moms of ours would never have been willing to store a 1 function tool, lol
That plate you are holding brings me back to childhood hood in the 80s I ate off of those dishes half my life! I love all the retro kitchen gadgets you use, so nostalgic
I had that book when I was in school! My mom made a copy of Lucy’s Lemon Squares and I still have it - book is long gone. The lemon squares are a staple to this day!
I used to be the family cookie baker at Christmas time, years ago. Hundreds of cookies. Each family member had a special talent food gift to bring (one did appetizers, one did Jell-O molds etc) Anyway, I always made my cookies small like these. Usually drop cookies, two bites and done. I'm too old for all the baking now, and I have a daughter-in-law who is a good baker, so I've passed the baton to her. I wish I had known of these cookies back then, right up my alley! Yummy and small.👍🏻
I didn't start collecting cookbooks until I was 24. You have brought my cookbook interest back to life. I am watching every video of yours and buying all the cookbooks that I think I can use. I do like finding books "in the wild". Ebay is easier, but not as fun. Thank you for your fun and informative videos.
Scholastic brings back so many memories for me!! My mom was the librarian at our Charter School when I was really little and I have a lot of memories of the scholastic book fairs. They also had a warehouse nearish we’d get to go to once or twice a year for a sale and that was so exciting because we were allowed to pick out posters (as well as books) haha! Thank you again for another wonderful, memory igniting video 😊
I have a small collection of Peanuts books BUT not the cookbooks. I also have a small collection of Peanuts toys that I have found at the flea market and some newer Peanuts items like small spatulas for Spring and Thanksgiving I also have some linens - kitchen towels and such, Have been a huge fan for years, since I was a child. Also I have been making Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies since 1985. My favorite cookie to bake.
I just love all of your dishes and bakeware. I believe my Grandmother had a set of dishes or bowls or something that matched the bowl you had the pumpkin in. 😊
The Thanksgiving special has always been my family's favorite! My dad and I loved the scene where Snoopy gets in the fight with the chair! Thank you for sharing these recipes and cookbooks!
I love everything about the Peanuts gang and I grew up on Charlie Brown... I cannot wait to try these cookies...I kinda remember this cookbook but I lost it...I would love to own it again... And yes I still watch all the specials every year...I love the Great Pumpkin 🎃 and the Christmas one and yes the Thanksgiving, except in Canada we have our Thanksgiving in October... Happy Halloween 🦇 🎃
I got the Peanuts Cookbook from Schoolastic must have been in its first offering as I graduated from 8th grade in 1972 and I know I got it before then. My brother and mother loved Lucy's Lemon Squares. My brother now 58 still asks for them.
I love this video! I was born in 1954 and grew up with the Charles Schultz characters. I did not know there had been a Scholastic cookbook from Peanuts released in 1969! I guess by then I was in junior high and I wasn't interested in things to do with kitchens yet, lol. The Thanksgiving special was MY favorite also! My 34 year old daughter and I watch it every year just to critique Peppermint Patty's rude behaviors throughout the episode. I love the other two main specials also, but the Thanksgiving one is great! Thank you for doing these very interesting videos.
I'm so glad you shared a children's cookbook! These are some of my favorite genres of cookery books and I had not heard fo this one. Such a cute cookie! 🎃The last children's cookbook I remember buying from Etsy is from the Secret Garden - I think it also had a jam tarts - a kid classic. ♥
We love our Peanuts Cookbook, Anna. So happy to see it on your channel. The lemon bars are absolutely the best lemon bar recipe ever!!! Even if you don't do a video on them, please do yourself a favor and make them for y'all to enjoy.
The Thanksgiving special is on the top of my list. I've never seen that cookbook before! I admit I paused the video and ordered one for myself. 😄 I'm easily influenced.
I was sitting here talking to the TV yelling “the popcorn and toast. It’s got to be the popcorn and toast!” And it was. Lol. I’m so glad I found your channel here on RUclips. Thank you for existing!
Yay!!! They look delicious! I never knew what they looked like. I will be making them for my mom soon. So glad you found the book and love the cookies :) the Halloween special is definitely my fave. Yay!! ❤
How exciting - you have my first cookbook! I was given a hardcover edition for Xmas in 1969 and I also coincidentally got a magenta pinstrip dress shirt - very mod. Those pumpkin cookies were a favorite. As I look back, my parents were supportive of a boy getting a cookbook at a time where only girls were given such household gifts. I am glad you liked those pumpkin cookies!
I love Charlie Brown this is such a great share. Jim and Stephanie are very kind people. The cookies would be a hit at my house . Thank you Anna and happy Halloween
I started my vintage cookbook collection when I first started college. And then by pure chance last week at my library book sale I found the 1963 McCall's cookbook and bought it along with three other vintage cookbooks.
I got the Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls when I was 8. I still make certain recipes from it. I misplaced mine when I moved, but just got a reprint, and am having fun going back to some of the easiest, and best recipes ever. The Gingerbread is amazing.
Oh, my goodness.. we had this book when i was a kid! And, yes, we got it from the scalastic book form that we ordered books from at school. Thanks for the memories!
So many of us love the Thanksgiving episode best--that can't be a coincidence! Peanuts was a huge part of my childhood, but I never had those little cookbooks. I might have to look for them. So much fun to see Jim and Stephanie! The cookies look awesome.
When I was little I got to order a Clifford the Big Red Dog cookbook from Scholastic. It came with cookie cutters. I think I made one recipe from it, some kind of no-bake cookie. At least, I remember getting the book and I remember making that kind of cookie around the same time, but am not sure if it was from that book or not. That's the only cookbook I remember buying as a child, though I think my brother and I were gifted a Junior BH&G (I think) cookbook of some kind. Also, my mom picked up The Pooh Cook Book (from 1969) for me, when she was shopping at a thrift store one day when I was at school. I've been a big Pooh Bear fan since I was a toddler, so that was a welcome surprise. I don't remember making anything from it as a child, though. But I still have it and have made a few things as an adult. I used to borrow The American Girls cookbooks from the library every few trips, but it wasn't until I was an adult that I got around to buying my own copies. I'm not an avid cookbook collector due to budget and space constraints, but I like vintage cookbooks and have collected a few of them. Several years ago I bought an early Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book from Half Price Books. They actually had two, but this one had inserts of recipes from 1950s BH&G magazine, so I opted for it since I thought that was a neat bonus. Sometime after I bought it, I learned that my mom's favorite cake was the spice cake in that book, and she hadn't had it since she was a child, so I made it for her. My dad's favorite dessert is Black Bottom Pie, another recipe that's in that book, and I've used that recipe to make it for him. I recently bought an early BH&G cookbook from 1945 that has special wartime tips/ recipes. Mostly I just look at the books, though, not cook from them. But I'd like to try more recipes.
Fantastic channel! Showed my Mum a few videos (she was born in the 1930s) the 40s, 50s, 60s cookbooks especially, she has a few still, plus her huge, stuffed full of recipes written down, cut out from magazines etc which I will get eventually! It was a real trip down memory lane for her watching you make all the stuff her Mummy made. Some were not made in Ireland of course, exclusively American / Canadian probably. All the retro and antique bowls, plates, I get loads from Mum lol, my kitchen looks like a set from Bewitched! The recipe for toasted cheese had my husband drooling, so guess what I'm making today for lunch. My Mum taught me how to cook, and I am so grateful to her for that. So is my husband haha! Yes I sit and watch your videos with a notepad and pencil. My hubby's favourite Irish recipe I bake is the bacon and cheese soda bread scones (biscuits for Americans) as I can whip them up quick in the morning for breakfast.
Oooo, I didn't know there was a Peanuts cookbook. My favorite special is the Thanksgiving one too!! Since I was a kid I loved that one most. The cookies looked cute & yummy. Thanks for sharing!
Oh wow! I didn't remember that Scholastic once sold recipe books! I am an elementary school librarian and I will be opening our Scholastic book fair on Monday; unfortunately, no cookbooks have been sent to our school since I have been running our book fairs. At my last school, though (pre-pandemic), I remember that we did get some children's cookbooks at least one time. But that looks like a really fun cookbook, with the comics in it!
These look delicious! I used to buy “The Peanuts” books as a child when I was in grade school. We filled out the order form and gave it to the teacher! I still have “Happiness Is A Warm Puppy”. I think the amount of baking powder is due to the heaviness of the pumpkin. They probably wanted to ensure a good rise. Thank you for another great video! 🍂🍁🍂🎃🍁🍂🍁
Such an adorable cookbook. Grew up with Peanuts and raisins in my cookies. Thanks for keeping the raisins. I like the Peanuts Thanksgiving show because Charlie Brown isn't such a loser in that one. I know it's his character, but I don't like that adults give him rocks on Halloween. Who does that? (I know it's a cartoon). Okay - Peppermint Patty's Prune Whip next!
Just found your channel. I absolutely enjoy seeing vintage recipes come to life most esp. the eras 30’s-60’s. My favorite recipes to watch being made are those which are peculiar, put us out of our comfort zone and which make most modern people reluctant to even attempt out of fear of wasting ingredients and time and not liking the final product only to find out they were wrong and it was delicious. Look forward to more videos!
I can not wait to try this recipe. I am all about all the pumpkin things this time of year....even if it IS more like summer weather here at 76 degrees. *gag* lol
I never had this book (not American) but I feel like my equivalent for kids’ cookbooks are The Little Cooks, of which Unicef published two volumes in the 80s. Hard to find for a reasonable price and super nostalgic to me.
Hi Anna, What a great recipe, the Pumpkin cookies look tasty! I was thinking small chocolate chips would be a nice addition or even just a light dusting of powdered sugar on the top, BUT I also think these little cookies would be PERFECT as is with my mid morning tea. Now I want to watch the Peanuts holiday specials...
Hello Friends, One amicable tip, whenever I do a new recipe I always do a test cookie to see how far they actually do spread so I'm not guessing. I heartily agree that one should freeze cookies preformed on a baking sheet and then bag up for future use. If you are preparing for xmas baking it's a good idea when making cookies to double the recipe (or even more) and have a wide variety of frozen cookies ready for the busy holidays or just to treat yourself. I always write on the freezer bag the oven temp and time which makes later coordination easier. The kids here in Oaxaca always enjoy Halloween (Muertos, The Dead) In our neighborhood we all gather together and visit the houses in a big mass. we have costume contests, some neighbors make treats for the adults and it all ends with community gathered piñatas which the kids enjoy smashing. Enjoy all the holidays coming up. hugs from way down south past Dixie...Jim Mexico
These look delightful. They remind me of the pumpkin cookies my family's made every autumn since I, and my mom, were kids. My grandma got the recipe from a Betty Crocker cookbook, I think. Our pumpkin cookies feature the raisins as well and are fluffy, like the ones you made. We top ours with a maple buttercream frosting, so I'd recommend that if you want to sweeten these. I'll definitely be trying this recipe. I love the Peanuts Gang! And for the record, the Halloween special is my favorite of the holiday specials. And, as a Wiccan who celebrates Samhain along with Halloween, I now have a fan theory in my head that Linus' devotion to the Great Pumpkin isn't so much that he mixed up Halloween and Christmas as that, in his heart, he's a little witchy kid but doesn't quite know what Samhain and/or Paganism is yet. Thanks for the great recipe. I'd love to see more from this cookbook.
When I taught third grade we would have a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. We would have popcorn, toast, and jelly beans (which are not easy to find in November). The kiddos thought it was so fun.
I just found your channel (literally just watched my first 2 videos in a row) and really I wish I’d stumbled in sooner! Your voice is delightful and I really love the way you present the recipes, the books, and your own thoughts! Fabulous all around!
I love your channel so much! It is the high point of my day. There is nothing more uplifting and happy than food and its' preparation and study. You have inspired me to get out my old cookbooks and search them for untried gems. Does your husband enjoy your hobby? I bet he does when the dishes turn out great!
When I say I paused this to go to Etsy. 😂 I have a whole wishlist of things to keep an eye out for when I'm thrifting. Also, the Thanksgiving one is my fave too. I might hage to bring popcorn and toast to my friendsgiving potluck this year. (With my usual apple pie, or their might be a riot. 😅)
This was such a fun enjoyable video! Love all the nostalgic references to the Peanuts gang. The raisins and pecans sound like such yummy additions to cookies (as opposed to chocolate chips). And Jim is there! Awesome! Thanks for a cozy fun video🥰🎃
Oooh, I like the new structure, i.e. starting the recipe baking, then going through the book. It seems so natural somehow. I'm always here for both the cooking and the vintage cookbook walk through anyway. I happen to like desserts that are not too sweet though I like my cookies crisp rather than soft. However, it seems like I could pretend these are mini muffins. 😆 Thanks for a another marvelous (you see, I used that word for you) video.
I'm so glad I recently found your channel! It's neat to find someone my same age who also loves vintage cookbooks. I have quite a few of the ones you've cooked from, and I also mostly find them at thrift stores and used bookstores for really cheap 🙂
This was my first cookbook - 1972 from Scholastic Books. I was 9 or 10 and my Mother helped me make Great Pumpkin Cookies and I remember not being crazy about them. I still have my copy of this cookbook and just got it out and looked at it and my Mother had written "better with butter cream icing" on the page. My favorite recipe was Lucy's Lemon Squares and I still make them at least once a year.
Several years ago I found a great recipe for pumpkin gingernut biscuits. I'm Australian so cookies to you is biscuits to us. I'm not referring to the round scone like things . The gingernut pumpkin biscuits are so good. Hmmmm! Now I need to find the recipe again. We don't have canned pumpkin here so I baked my butternut pumpkin for 90 minutes, after cutting it in half. Baking the butternut gives the biscuit a much deeper and richer flavour.
Butter is shortening, actually. Glen from Glen and Friends Cooking explained it. I've substituted butter for veg, shortening and it works fine. I sometimes use the butter flavored Crisco. Love your vids!
I used to have this cookbook and I still make these cookies whenever we have food days at work for Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas. Yours came out much nicer cuter than mine. Mine are always huge blobs. Mine also tend to look browner so they look a little gross. But they still taste great! I live in South Carolina now and a lot of people here don't like pumpkin. When I worked in Pennsylvania and Florida, I didn't find so many people who have such a problem with pumpkin.
My mother made pumpkin cookies minus the ginger and raisins, then frosted them with powdered sugar and orange juice icing glaze. They were a family favorite!❤️
My favorite is also the Thanksgiving special. When my daughter was in kindergarten, her teacher actually let them watch the show and she made them the same dinner while they watched. I was honestly so jealous.
What an awesome thing for that teacher to do!!
I got that book when I was a kid and I still have it! I am 64.
My wife is 60 and still has hers too!!
I bought that cookbook in 5th grade from the Scholastic Book Club through my elementary school in Los Angeles in 1969-70. When I saw the thumbnail I had a vague memory of making these as soon as the book arrived (the books got delivered to school).
Very sincere cookies as I recall.
I used to order from the Scholastic Book Club also! On Friday’s, I think - as a bit of fun after our spelling test.
Such good memories 😊
The Thanksgiving special is woefully underrated. When my daughters were little, they would laugh hysterically at the scene where Snoopy gets stuck in the garage door and wrestles the folding chair.
My favorite part
I used to collect cookbook pamphlets from liquor stores in the late 70s. I made the best rum cake I'd ever had. I need to find my box of pamphlets!
Omg, I had this cookbook as a girl. Ordered it from the Scholastic book club at school. I made the Divine Divinity, which was a complete flop. If you look in that book there’s a Snoopy dog food recipe that includes an egg mixed into the dog food. I did that, and my dog was super happy. I read those pink-paged recipes over and over as a kid. 😊
I have a Snoopy & The Gang Out West cookbook, 1982/1983, I bought it in San Francisco while on vacation in 1983, I don't think I've ever cooked any of the recipes in it, still looks new! 😄
He thanksgiving special is our favorite as well. When we got married my husband worked in retail, so never had time off on thanksgiving because of black Friday. For the first few years I'd go to the big family dinner, either at his parents or at mine, and bring him home a plate of food. After our son was born it started being hitting both dinners, still without my husband because grandparents wanted to spend time with the baby. Neither family was willing to adjust their dinner time so my husband could be included in the meal. My son also had a lot of food allergies so I was basically cooking everything and bringing our own food so we could eat. I got tired of it by the time my son was 2 and told both families we wouldn't be joining them.
I was thinking about what to do to make the day fun for muy toddler when I remembered Charlie Brown's thanksgiving. So I bought jelly beans and expensive gluten free bread and pretzel sticks, we popped popcorn and made toast. We had our own little fun dinner. No rush or massive cooking, just simple and fun.
My husband hasn't worked retail in 12 years, but we still have our Charlie Brown thanksgiving every year. I thought we might be getting ready to be done with it a few years agp, but the now 14 year old has already reminded me I need to buy jelly beans. We've even passed the tradition on to his cousins whom we rarely get to see at thanksgiving because of distance. I send out care packages with jellybeans and they all get together via zoom or FaceTime and eat their toast, popcorn, jelly beans and pretzel sticks while the Charlie Brown thanksgiving special plays in the background in all our homes.
Thanksgiving is my favorite too! And specifically the dinner service scene! The way Snoopy passes out the food, it brings me pure joy!
My Family used a lot of Shortening in the 1960's. Lots of people did.🥰
I wish I still had this book! It was a big part of my loving to read cookbooks to this day. I was not allowed to make the lemon lollipops because mom thought it was too dangerous, but I made the cinnamon toast. At my house when we dropped cookie dough by the teaspoonful, we used our place setting teaspoons rather than measuring teaspoons. Did anyone else do that?
That's the way we made drop cookies when I was growing up - with regular place setting teaspoons. 😀
Yes, that's what we used to drop cookies when I was a kid. Now I'm grown up and have two scoops in different sizes. 😊
Yes, that's how my mom did it and I never thought to use measuring teaspoons!
Yep, placesetting teaspoons all the way. Small post-war ranch house didn't have big kitchens, even if those scoops had been commercially available, these practical moms of ours would never have been willing to store a 1 function tool, lol
I am really enjoying your channel, Anna. You do a great job and are really fun to watch. Thanks for putting all the work you do into your content.
Thank you so much for your kind words! Glad you're enjoying my videos. 😊
Wonderful video. I love Charlie Brown and I have CB books and hallmark collectables of CB and friends. This made smile on a monday morning.
Ahh, the book fair. Loved it so much. I got a Strawberry Shortcake cookbook one year , 1980 something, that was my absolute favorite.
My dad used to make me cinnamon toast. It was my favorite thing to eat. I make it for my kids and they love it as well.
My friend Amy is a 2nd grade teacher and every year they have the food from the Thanksgiving episode.
Oh my gosh, who would NOT pick the Thanksgiving one? Our entire household wholeheartedly agrees! That meal is a kid fantasy!
That plate you are holding brings me back to childhood hood in the 80s I ate off of those dishes half my life! I love all the retro kitchen gadgets you use, so nostalgic
I had that book when I was in school! My mom made a copy of Lucy’s Lemon Squares and I still have it - book is long gone. The lemon squares are a staple to this day!
I remember that recipe! I need to find a copy - they were definitely a neighborhood favorite!
I used to be the family cookie baker at Christmas time, years ago. Hundreds of cookies. Each family member had a special talent food gift to bring (one did appetizers, one did Jell-O molds etc) Anyway, I always made my cookies small like these. Usually drop cookies, two bites and done. I'm too old for all the baking now, and I have a daughter-in-law who is a good baker, so I've passed the baton to her. I wish I had known of these cookies back then, right up my alley! Yummy and small.👍🏻
My first cookbook was the Pooh Bear cookbook ordered from
Scholastic book club. I still have it! Love your channel!
I didn't start collecting cookbooks until I was 24. You have brought my cookbook interest back to life. I am watching every video of yours and buying all the cookbooks that I think I can use. I do like finding books "in the wild". Ebay is easier, but not as fun. Thank you for your fun and informative videos.
Happy I could help reignite your cookbook spark! So glad you are enjoying my videos. ❤
I had that book! Lucy's Lemon Squares are great
As as kid I cooked from my Nancy Drew Cookbook and of course the Little House Cookbook, with the maple syrup snow candy! Loved this one!
Scholastic brings back so many memories for me!! My mom was the librarian at our Charter School when I was really little and I have a lot of memories of the scholastic book fairs. They also had a warehouse nearish we’d get to go to once or twice a year for a sale and that was so exciting because we were allowed to pick out posters (as well as books) haha! Thank you again for another wonderful, memory igniting video 😊
Oh my GOSH a Scholastic warehouse sale?? What a dream!
I have a small collection of Peanuts books BUT not the cookbooks. I also have a small collection of Peanuts toys that I have found at the flea market and some newer Peanuts items like small spatulas for Spring and Thanksgiving I also have some linens - kitchen towels and such, Have been a huge fan for years, since I was a child.
Also I have been making Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies since 1985. My favorite cookie to bake.
I just love all of your dishes and bakeware. I believe my Grandmother had a set of dishes or bowls or something that matched the bowl you had the pumpkin in. 😊
The Thanksgiving special has always been my family's favorite! My dad and I loved the scene where Snoopy gets in the fight with the chair! Thank you for sharing these recipes and cookbooks!
The Thanksgiving Special is the best!
I love everything about the Peanuts gang and I grew up on Charlie Brown...
I cannot wait to try these cookies...I kinda remember this cookbook but I lost it...I would love to own it again...
And yes I still watch all the specials every year...I love the Great Pumpkin 🎃 and the Christmas one and yes the Thanksgiving, except in Canada we have our Thanksgiving in October...
Happy Halloween 🦇 🎃
I got the Peanuts Cookbook from Schoolastic must have been in its first offering as I graduated from 8th grade in 1972 and I know I got it before then. My brother and mother loved Lucy's Lemon Squares. My brother now 58 still asks for them.
I love this video! I was born in 1954 and grew up with the Charles Schultz characters. I did not know there had been a Scholastic cookbook from Peanuts released in 1969! I guess by then I was in junior high and I wasn't interested in things to do with kitchens yet, lol.
The Thanksgiving special was MY favorite also! My 34 year old daughter and I watch it every year just to critique Peppermint Patty's rude behaviors throughout the episode. I love the other two main specials also, but the Thanksgiving one is great! Thank you for doing these very interesting videos.
This brings me back to my childhood, I loved cooking used children's cookbooks. I am on the hunt for one but I cannot remember the title of the book.
I'm so glad you shared a children's cookbook! These are some of my favorite genres of cookery books and I had not heard fo this one. Such a cute cookie! 🎃The last children's cookbook I remember buying from Etsy is from the Secret Garden - I think it also had a jam tarts - a kid classic. ♥
Ohh the secret garden that’s so wonderful! Loved that book
@@karenmcclenahan7988 it's a treasure in Children's classics. It's nice to meet like minded people here 🥰.
We love our Peanuts Cookbook, Anna. So happy to see it on your channel. The lemon bars are absolutely the best lemon bar recipe ever!!! Even if you don't do a video on them, please do yourself a favor and make them for y'all to enjoy.
The Thanksgiving special is on the top of my list. I've never seen that cookbook before! I admit I paused the video and ordered one for myself. 😄 I'm easily influenced.
I was sitting here talking to the TV yelling “the popcorn and toast. It’s got to be the popcorn and toast!” And it was. Lol. I’m so glad I found your channel here on RUclips. Thank you for existing!
Prune whip? I’m intrigued!
Great video, Anna! Thanks for allowing me to try your cookies! 😊
OH Im the same!! The Thanksgiving special is my absolute favorite!
Yay!!! They look delicious! I never knew what they looked like. I will be making them for my mom soon. So glad you found the book and love the cookies :) the Halloween special is definitely my fave. Yay!! ❤
How exciting - you have my first cookbook! I was given a hardcover edition for Xmas in 1969 and I also coincidentally got a magenta pinstrip dress shirt - very mod. Those pumpkin cookies were a favorite. As I look back, my parents were supportive of a boy getting a cookbook at a time where only girls were given such household gifts. I am glad you liked those pumpkin cookies!
Yes! We had this book when I was a kid. Lucy’s Lemon Squares were our favorite!
Great episode.
Lucy's Lemon Squares are the bomb.
I think my love affair with lemon squares started with Lucy's
The Lucy's lemon squares are a family recipe at this point. Love them so much!
I love Charlie Brown this is such a great share. Jim and Stephanie are very kind people. The cookies would be a hit at my house . Thank you Anna and happy Halloween
I started my vintage cookbook collection when I first started college. And then by pure chance last week at my library book sale I found the 1963 McCall's cookbook and bought it along with three other vintage cookbooks.
I got the Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls when I was 8. I still make certain recipes from it. I misplaced mine when I moved, but just got a reprint, and am having fun going back to some of the easiest, and best recipes ever. The Gingerbread is amazing.
My favorite Peanuts special is also the Thanksgiving special!
The first thing I thought when I saw the book, “Is there a recipe for popcorn and toast?!”
My favorite special is the Halloween special. I was born and lived in Santa Rosa, CA where Charles Schultz lived and drew the Peanuts comic strip.
I watch the Thanksgiving special every year ( have the dvd), the Christmas one is still my fav. Grew up watching all the specials.
Oh, my goodness.. we had this book when i was a kid! And, yes, we got it from the scalastic book form that we ordered books from at school. Thanks for the memories!
So many of us love the Thanksgiving episode best--that can't be a coincidence! Peanuts was a huge part of my childhood, but I never had those little cookbooks. I might have to look for them.
So much fun to see Jim and Stephanie! The cookies look awesome.
When I was little I got to order a Clifford the Big Red Dog cookbook from Scholastic. It came with cookie cutters. I think I made one recipe from it, some kind of no-bake cookie. At least, I remember getting the book and I remember making that kind of cookie around the same time, but am not sure if it was from that book or not. That's the only cookbook I remember buying as a child, though I think my brother and I were gifted a Junior BH&G (I think) cookbook of some kind. Also, my mom picked up The Pooh Cook Book (from 1969) for me, when she was shopping at a thrift store one day when I was at school. I've been a big Pooh Bear fan since I was a toddler, so that was a welcome surprise. I don't remember making anything from it as a child, though. But I still have it and have made a few things as an adult. I used to borrow The American Girls cookbooks from the library every few trips, but it wasn't until I was an adult that I got around to buying my own copies. I'm not an avid cookbook collector due to budget and space constraints, but I like vintage cookbooks and have collected a few of them. Several years ago I bought an early Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book from Half Price Books. They actually had two, but this one had inserts of recipes from 1950s BH&G magazine, so I opted for it since I thought that was a neat bonus. Sometime after I bought it, I learned that my mom's favorite cake was the spice cake in that book, and she hadn't had it since she was a child, so I made it for her. My dad's favorite dessert is Black Bottom Pie, another recipe that's in that book, and I've used that recipe to make it for him. I recently bought an early BH&G cookbook from 1945 that has special wartime tips/ recipes. Mostly I just look at the books, though, not cook from them. But I'd like to try more recipes.
The thanksgiving special is my favorite too!!!! So delighted that I got to sample your handiwork!!! You are the best, I adore you!!!
Fantastic channel! Showed my Mum a few videos (she was born in the 1930s) the 40s, 50s, 60s cookbooks especially, she has a few still, plus her huge, stuffed full of recipes written down, cut out from magazines etc which I will get eventually! It was a real trip down memory lane for her watching you make all the stuff her Mummy made. Some were not made in Ireland of course, exclusively American / Canadian probably. All the retro and antique bowls, plates, I get loads from Mum lol, my kitchen looks like a set from Bewitched! The recipe for toasted cheese had my husband drooling, so guess what I'm making today for lunch. My Mum taught me how to cook, and I am so grateful to her for that. So is my husband haha! Yes I sit and watch your videos with a notepad and pencil. My hubby's favourite Irish recipe I bake is the bacon and cheese soda bread scones (biscuits for Americans) as I can whip them up quick in the morning for breakfast.
We had that book when I was a kid. My favorite was the Red Baron rootbeer.
I had that cookbook when I was in elementary school! A walk down memory lane.....Thank you.
You are so welcome! 😊
Oooo, I didn't know there was a Peanuts cookbook. My favorite special is the Thanksgiving one too!! Since I was a kid I loved that one most. The cookies looked cute & yummy. Thanks for sharing!
Oh wow! I didn't remember that Scholastic once sold recipe books! I am an elementary school librarian and I will be opening our Scholastic book fair on Monday; unfortunately, no cookbooks have been sent to our school since I have been running our book fairs. At my last school, though (pre-pandemic), I remember that we did get some children's cookbooks at least one time. But that looks like a really fun cookbook, with the comics in it!
These look delicious! I used to buy “The Peanuts” books as a child when I was in grade school. We filled out the order form and gave it to the teacher! I still have “Happiness Is A Warm Puppy”. I think the amount of baking powder is due to the heaviness of the pumpkin. They probably wanted to ensure a good rise. Thank you for another great video! 🍂🍁🍂🎃🍁🍂🍁
I love Charlie Brown, and I am 54. I would love to get those cookbooks they are cool
Such an adorable cookbook. Grew up with Peanuts and raisins in my cookies. Thanks for keeping the raisins. I like the Peanuts Thanksgiving show because Charlie Brown isn't such a loser in that one. I know it's his character, but I don't like that adults give him rocks on Halloween. Who does that? (I know it's a cartoon). Okay - Peppermint Patty's Prune Whip next!
Yup, the Thanksgiving special is my favorite too. How can you go wrong with toast and popcorn? :)
I can’t believe I didn’t know about this cookbook and Peanuts is my absolute favorite. Thank you so much! I love watching your videos.
Just found your channel. I absolutely enjoy seeing vintage recipes come to life most esp. the eras 30’s-60’s. My favorite recipes to watch being made are those which are peculiar, put us out of our comfort zone and which make most modern people reluctant to even attempt out of fear of wasting ingredients and time and not liking the final product only to find out they were wrong and it was delicious. Look forward to more videos!
Thanks for sharing Anna!
So cute! I was wearing snoopy pyjama bottoms while watching this 🎃
How perfect! 😄
I can not wait to try this recipe. I am all about all the pumpkin things this time of year....even if it IS more like summer weather here at 76 degrees. *gag* lol
I never had this book (not American) but I feel like my equivalent for kids’ cookbooks are The Little Cooks, of which Unicef published two volumes in the 80s. Hard to find for a reasonable price and super nostalgic to me.
Hi Anna, What a great recipe, the Pumpkin cookies look tasty! I was thinking small chocolate chips would be a nice addition or even just a light dusting of powdered sugar on the top, BUT I also think these little cookies would be PERFECT as is with my mid morning tea.
Now I want to watch the Peanuts holiday specials...
Hello Friends, One amicable tip, whenever I do a new recipe I always do a test cookie to see how far they actually do spread so I'm not guessing. I heartily agree that one should freeze cookies preformed on a baking sheet and then bag up for future use. If you are preparing for xmas baking it's a good idea when making cookies to double the recipe (or even more) and have a wide variety of frozen cookies ready for the busy holidays or just to treat yourself. I always write on the freezer bag the oven temp and time which makes later coordination easier.
The kids here in Oaxaca always enjoy Halloween (Muertos, The Dead) In our neighborhood we all gather together and visit the houses in a big mass. we have costume contests, some neighbors make treats for the adults and it all ends with community gathered piñatas which the kids enjoy smashing. Enjoy all the holidays coming up. hugs from way down south past Dixie...Jim Mexico
These look delightful. They remind me of the pumpkin cookies my family's made every autumn since I, and my mom, were kids. My grandma got the recipe from a Betty Crocker cookbook, I think. Our pumpkin cookies feature the raisins as well and are fluffy, like the ones you made. We top ours with a maple buttercream frosting, so I'd recommend that if you want to sweeten these.
I'll definitely be trying this recipe. I love the Peanuts Gang! And for the record, the Halloween special is my favorite of the holiday specials. And, as a Wiccan who celebrates Samhain along with Halloween, I now have a fan theory in my head that Linus' devotion to the Great Pumpkin isn't so much that he mixed up Halloween and Christmas as that, in his heart, he's a little witchy kid but doesn't quite know what Samhain and/or Paganism is yet.
Thanks for the great recipe. I'd love to see more from this cookbook.
I grew up watching all of the Charlie Brown shows specials!! Love them all. Thanks for another great video!
When I taught third grade we would have a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. We would have popcorn, toast, and jelly beans (which are not easy to find in November). The kiddos thought it was so fun.
My mom made these cookies when I was a girl. I haven't seen this recipe in about 30 yrs.
I just found your channel (literally just watched my first 2 videos in a row) and really I wish I’d stumbled in sooner! Your voice is delightful and I really love the way you present the recipes, the books, and your own thoughts! Fabulous all around!
Thank you! ❤️
I love your channel so much! It is the high point of my day. There is nothing more uplifting and happy than food and its' preparation and study. You have inspired me to get out my old cookbooks and search them for untried gems. Does your husband enjoy your hobby? I bet he does when the dishes turn out great!
When I say I paused this to go to Etsy. 😂 I have a whole wishlist of things to keep an eye out for when I'm thrifting. Also, the Thanksgiving one is my fave too. I might hage to bring popcorn and toast to my friendsgiving potluck this year. (With my usual apple pie, or their might be a riot. 😅)
This was such a fun enjoyable video! Love all the nostalgic references to the Peanuts gang. The raisins and pecans sound like such yummy additions to cookies (as opposed to chocolate chips). And Jim is there! Awesome! Thanks for a cozy fun video🥰🎃
Oooh, I like the new structure, i.e. starting the recipe baking, then going through the book. It seems so natural somehow. I'm always here for both the cooking and the vintage cookbook walk through anyway. I happen to like desserts that are not too sweet though I like my cookies crisp rather than soft. However, it seems like I could pretend these are mini muffins. 😆 Thanks for a another marvelous (you see, I used that word for you) video.
I had this cookbook & so many others. Unfortunately we had a roof collapse over the area & I lost so many 😢 Thanks for the memories
So sorry you lost your collection. I can't even imagine. ❤
I'm so glad I recently found your channel! It's neat to find someone my same age who also loves vintage cookbooks. I have quite a few of the ones you've cooked from, and I also mostly find them at thrift stores and used bookstores for really cheap 🙂
The Thanksgiving special is my favorite as well.
Never had this cookbook…but definitely remember that mixing bowl!
I love your sweater 🐾🐾
Thank you! 😊
So cool! I didn't know that there was a Peanuts cookbook.
This was my first cookbook - 1972 from Scholastic Books. I was 9 or 10 and my Mother helped me make Great Pumpkin Cookies and I remember not being crazy about them. I still have my copy of this cookbook and just got it out and looked at it and my Mother had written "better with butter cream icing" on the page. My favorite recipe was Lucy's Lemon Squares and I still make them at least once a year.
Yes! We watch the Thanksgiving episode every year. 😁
my mom made me those cookies!!!! when i was a kid!! Thank u for the recipe!! and now i can make them with
my worker,
Several years ago I found a great recipe for pumpkin gingernut biscuits. I'm Australian so cookies to you is biscuits to us. I'm not referring to the round scone like things .
The gingernut pumpkin biscuits are so good. Hmmmm! Now I need to find the recipe again. We don't have canned pumpkin here so I baked my butternut pumpkin for 90 minutes, after cutting it in half. Baking the butternut gives the biscuit a much deeper and richer flavour.
Butter is shortening, actually. Glen from Glen and Friends Cooking explained it. I've substituted butter for veg, shortening and it works fine. I sometimes use the butter flavored Crisco. Love your vids!
Love your work…YOUR RECIPES REMINDS me of my childhood! ❤
I remember seeing that recipe years ago . Looks yummy !
I had.. brace yourself.. Strawberry Shortcake's Cooking Fun. Love it!😂I think these cookies sound great how they are.
JEALOUS! 😂
I had that cookbook as a child. Loved it. Wonder where it went. Thanks for the memories.
I used to have this cookbook and I still make these cookies whenever we have food days at work for Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas. Yours came out much nicer cuter than mine. Mine are always huge blobs. Mine also tend to look browner so they look a little gross. But they still taste great!
I live in South Carolina now and a lot of people here don't like pumpkin. When I worked in Pennsylvania and Florida, I didn't find so many people who have such a problem with pumpkin.
Those look so good! My kids actually like the Peanuts Thanksgiving special the best too😀👍
My mother made pumpkin cookies minus the ginger and raisins, then frosted them with powdered sugar and orange juice icing glaze. They were a family favorite!❤️
These will be perfect for fall and anytime🌸Yum! Thank You🌷
Another great video - the taste tester segment was adorable!! This channel is so pleasant.
Those taste testers were pretty good! 🙂
Ooh, this is great! I had a recipe for "Pumpkin softies" that I loved as a kid. These look similar (but not exactly the same. I'll try them!