Ready to Use / Hands on Books

Let’s get the whisks ready and the ovens heated! Our ready to use hands on materials will be available for all of our patrons interested in whipping something up in the kitchen. There is a wide array of cookbooks from all across the United States. Some highlights include special focus on southern cooking, childrens cooking, baking, special dietary needs, and more! Bring these books home and create some magic in the kitchen, just make sure not to burn the cake!

 

Historical Collection

Our collection also has cookbooks that you may not see on every kitchen shelf. These rare books give us a glimpse into the daily eating habits of those who pioneered kitchen creativity. For those interested in more research based cookery information, we have a large holding of books, magazines, recipe cards, photographs, and other like materials. Come learn about the origins of your favorite dish, or find a one of a kind recipe that you haven’t seen in the past while going through an assortment of cookbooks  and guides from the 19th and 20th Century. There is something new brewing behind every page in our collection of historical cookbooks.

 

Cooking & Baking Tools

Don’t have the tools to create your own culinary masterpiece? Don’t fret! Your friends at the Prairie Township Public Library are here to help. Please choose any materials from our vast collection of cookware and bakeware. We have almost every tool a master chef needs when they are in the kitchen. We have baking sheets, baking pans, measuring cups, digital scales, mixers, and more! We kindly ask that all materials are brought back as they were when picked up, cleaned and ready for the next customer, nobody likes a messy kitchen, and we want to make sure that our library stays clean as well.

 

Cooking on the Run Kits

Want to have a fun night in with family? Invite a few friends over and try something new? Grab one of our Cooking on the Run kits. These kits will have everything you need in order to create an amazing snack or meal. Create some magic in the kitchen, learn a new cooking technique, all while spending quality time with those around you.. Grab a few ingredients and a couple of friends and make a night you won’t soon forget!

 

What are we whipping up next?

Our organization is fully committed to advance the Cookery Collection in any way possible. After doing some initial analysis based on data collected during the first year of public access of the collection, we hope to provide a more thorough plan of what may come. Future endeavors include collections from other regions throughout the world within our collection so that we have a little taste of every countries tasty treats. If our kitchen tools and in-house demos go well, we plan to expand our outreach further within the community by acquiring more tools and more advanced instruction.