On Mon 03 Aug 2009 02:18:25p, Jean B. told us...

> Omelet wrote:
>> In article >,
>> The Cook > wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:57:02 -0500, Omelet >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article >,
>>>> The Cook > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:09:19 -0500, Omelet >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have to agree that it is not a good Custard recipe.
>>>>>> It's not even a correct custard recipe.
>>>>>>
>>>>> >From what I see in moms Betty Crocker Cookbook (sitting here in my
>>>>> >lap), there is no thickener used for a proper custard. Thought I
>>>>> >remembered as much!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This cookbook is probably a good 60 years old.
>>>>>> A real family treasure. :-) I'm considering having it re-bound as
>>>>>> it's falling apart, literally. I've been preserving it by keeping
>>>>>> it in a ziplock bag... It was one of the foremost things on moms
>>>>>> mind when she was dying. She was most concerned that I knew where
>>>>>> it was etc. <sigh>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do treasure it!
>>>>> It can't be over 60 years old, the first one was copyrighted 1950.
>>>>> There is a reproduction of that book. You might get one and save
>>>>> the old one.
>>>>>
>>>>> What does the cover look like?
>>>> Ok, I was not sure how old it was. Just that I'm 47 and mom died when
>>>> she was 68 and that was 7 years ago. I thought she got it from her
>>>> mom but I could be wrong. There are pictures of pies and stuff on
>>>> the cover.
>>>>
>>>> It has a LOT of moms hand written notes all over the covers and some
>>>> of the recipes.
>>> That is 1956 copyright. Pie, chicken and corn on the cob on the
>>> cover. I found a copy of it several years ago that is full of
>>> clippings and notes. I really need to go through it and sort out the
>>> junk from the good stuff.
>>>
>>> My first BC was the 1961 edition. It is still my "go to" book.
>>
>> Thanks. :-) So that makes it 53 years old then.
>>
>> My own first cookbook I learned from was a Doubleday. I'm not even
>> sure what happened to it. I've not seen it in ages and it's not on any
>> of the current bookshelves. We've moved a lot since dad bought it for
>> me.
>
> Maybe that would be a fun thread? I remember getting two
> cookbooks when I was 16: Joy of Cooking and The Good Housekeeping
> Cookbook. I still have that JoC (along with others), but that
> copy of GH disappeared long ago. I did replace it within the last
> couple of years or so.
>

I don't have the cookbooks in front of me, but I have two of the same GH
editions published in the early 1940s. One was my mothers, and I found one
for myself at a now defunct used cookbook shop in Manhattan. I also have a
GH published in 1963, and yet another that I had bought for my mother
published in the mid-1970s. The latter I'm not too fond of. I've only had
one JOC and it was published sometime in the late 1960s, I believe.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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