On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:38:57 -0600, "jmcquown"
> wrote:

>I recommend the Betty Crocker Cookbook. Many here will tout the Joy of
>Cooking (JOC) but to my mind if you're new to cooking Betty Crocker is a
>better, easier to read and use book. It contains photos, descriptions of
>different cuts of meat and poultry and fish, an herb and seasoning guide
>(what goes with what) and simple but tasty recipes.

I'd like to add the _Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook_, the one with
the red and white plaid jacket in 3-ring binder format. I was given
one a zillion years ago as an engagement present and it taught me
basic cookery with its fairly basic recipes/instructions. My mother
was a back-of-the-soup-can cook, by and large, so I really started
from Square One.

And now? I ain't afraid of *no* steenkin' recipes!

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA


"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

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