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jmcquown[_2_]

On 7/28/2015 6:00 PM, Janet wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 12:05:47 PM UTC-4, wrote:
>>
>>> In grammar school we were lent our textbooks. I believe they got between
>>> three and five years' use out of each one. We had to cover them to prevent
>>> their being marred, and of course we could not write in them. This training
>>> prevents me from writing in a book to this day.
>>
>> So were we, although I am capable of writing in my own books, as needed.
>> If I couldn't write in my cookbooks, it'd be a sorry state of affairs.
>
> When it comes to writing in books, my own cookbooks are the only ones
> I make an exception for. Where very many recipes I've tried have notes
> in the margin, reminders about which baking dish the recipe fits in, or
> a temperature adjustment for my own oven, or my own amendments to the
> recipe or method.
>
> Janet UK
>
I bought a couple of old cookbooks at a second hand store and appreciate
the former owner's little notes written in the margins. I also found a
couple of folded up hand-written recipes on note paper in another used
old cookbook I bought. Lagniappe!

Jill