Recipe(tried): Old-Fashioned (but not old) Cookbooks and Organizing Your Own Cookbook

I know exactly the type of book you are talking about. I have to agree with the recommendation that you search out and purchase church cookbooks, and Ebay has quite a selection.

But here is another idea for you. You can make these cookbooks as well. Begin by making your book, which is quite simple really. You can use a 3 ring binder, a scrapbook, an old notebook, or make your own cover and pages and use a Japanese/Chinese stab binding technique to bind the pages together. This is how I store and organize my vast recipe collection, I turn them into "cookbooks". I create dividers in the book and title the dividers whatever I want. My current book is handmade using the stab binding technique and my "pages" came out of an old encyclopedia index book that someone gave me. I had no use for an index that I didn't own the encyclopedias for. But I remembered that back in the "old" days, women often repurposed books and catalogs. My grandmother has such a book that has recipes in it that were handed down to her many years ago (she got married in 1949). That was the one cookbook she owned that she would not let me read like novels, she always said the pages had become to fragile. Sadly my aunt now owns that book and has it locked in her safe with other family "heirlooms", even though my grandmother is still alive. Anyways, I'm recreating my own version of that book.

My dividers are labeled:
Beverages
Appetizers, Dips, and Snacks
Breads, Sandwiches and Rolls
Soups, Salads and Dressing
Meats and Main Dishes
Vegetables and Side Dishes
Sauces and Gravies
Desserts
Cookies, Bars, and Candy
Jams, Jellies and Pickles
This and That

I punch my holes in my cover (which is a covered cereal box) and my pages and add recipes at whim. To find such old fashioned recipes, check out some books at a local library. I simply copy the recipes I want to keep either by hand or using my scanner. Also, use the internet to find recipes. I have found recipes for wild game this way, I've also found recipes on how to prepare cat tails (not the kind that is attached to our pets, lol). I've got a vast array of "wild edibles" recipes (unless I've lost that collection).

A cookbook that you might would be interested in, but it does not have wild game recipes in it, is the Betty Crocker Boys and Girls cookbook. I think it was originally published in the late 1950's, but it has been republished since. Amazon carries it at a reasonable price and you might even find it on Ebay. I owned the original printing of the book, and sadly it went up in flames with my house in 2001. Either my Aunt or my mother received it when they were young girls as a present for a birthday or Christmas. Anyways, it remained with my grandmother after they grew up and moved away. Since my grandparents were given legal custody of me at a young age, my grandmother gave me the book as my first cookbook at age 8.