On Mar 23, 7:23*pm, Goomba > wrote:
> Dave wrote:
> > I just picked up a copy of a Woman's Day cookbook that my wife has had
> > for 30 or more years, and some of the incredible things they tell you
> > to do in there are just shocking by today's standards. Dump in lard
> > for this recipe, a cup of butter for this recipe, etc. Amazing what
> > time has done to our sensitivity about healthy eating.
>
> > D.
>
> Lard isn't horribly unhealthy as fats go, and the French certainly seem
> to have figured out how to use a cup of butter and live to tell about it.

When we think about how long our parents and grandparents lived,
things must not have been as bad as they look in those old cookbooks,

Dave