Ever since my oldest child (daughter, age 8) was about a year and a half old, we've done at least one recipe from a child's cookbook every week. We started with doing it on Thursdays; now we normally do them on Monday and Thursday.
We have three cookbooks we use in turn, all of them somewhat vintage. One is the Better Homes and Gardens Junior Cookbook published in 1963, one is Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls , and the other is Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cookbook from 1978. There are newer editions of these, but I find the newest ones to be cartoony and pandering toward children, rather than teaching children how to cook from the beginnings.
My system for which recipes to choose is a bit complicated to explain, but suffice it to say we have a pretty wide variety of recipes and techniques to work with.
We didn't make anything from the books yesterday, on Monday, but we did today, an orange cake with a glaze, also orange. The cake itself was made from a yellow cake mix, with the addition of grated orange peel. The more involved part was the glaze. Josie had to cook sugar, water, and cornstarch, adding in juice and finally butter, very much in the same way that she's seen me do in making lemon meringue or similar styles of pies. However, the glaze is far less thick than that type of filling. It was also quite a large amount of glaze for covering a 9x13 cake and might need to be reduced in quantity for future use.
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