On Jun 25, 1:36 pm, Kate Connally > wrote:

> You definitely have a point. By those standards
> I would never have bought Joy of Cooking if I had
> read it first! There are some really awful things
> in it. But everyone always raves about it so I just
> went ahead an bought one finally after many, many
> years of hearing about it. I hardly ever use it.
>
> Kte
>
JoC is like Fanny Farmer or Settlement or McCalls
etc. They have lots of basic recipes, lots of useful
information, and don't claim to be haute cuisine.
If I need a crepe recipe, or banana bread, time
and temperature info for cooking a slab of critter,
I'll turn to them.

maxine in ri