On Mon 30 Jun 2008 09:38:24a, Jean B. told us...

> hahabogus wrote:
>> That 'might' is a powerful tool. Thanks for clearing up my brain
>> fart...
>>
>> I'm off to buy red bell peppers and boneless pork butt roasts. I'm off
>> the next 3 days and I see smoked pork butt and smoked red bell peppers
>> in my Future.... Tomorrow is Canada Day (July 1)... so Show Me Your
>> Beaver...as read off a T-shirt.
>>
>> Gonna try a sugarless pork rub on the roasts. Smoked red bell peppers
>> are a good thing.
>>
> But wait! I was out and about and saw a 1944 ed. of the Good
> Housekeeping Cookbook, which, indeed, did sport a plaid cover. (I
> don't know where MY copy of this is--maybe in a box. It isn't
> with the other such "bibles".)

Yes, but the plaid used on the GHC was never red. Usually tan/brown sort
of coloring. They dropped the use of the plaid in the latter 1950s.

> So, actually, GH was in the forefront of such covers, and BH&G
> copied them! Looking at my shelves of older books, there was an
> earlier GH cookbook (1933--it's buried), that has red and white
> stripes on its spine and may turn out to be plaid if I dredge it
> out. It is a smaller format though.

Hmm... I don't have that one, but I do have one from sometime in the
1920s, two from the 1940s, 1 from the 1950s, 1 from the 1960s, and one from
the 1970s. None that I have had any type of red design.



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Wayne Boatwright
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