On Sun 04 Sep 2005 06:03:19p, sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:43:18 -0500, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>
>> While going through our cookbooks, we took note that the ones we use most
>> are various Betty Crocker books.
>
> She's my old reliable too! In spite of having lots of "fancy"
> cookbooks, good old Betty Crocker is the one I turn to first... and I
> only have one.

I've never owned any of the Betty Crocker books, probably because my mom
never did. My old standbys are Good Housekeeping Cookbook (1944 and 1965
editions), Joy of Cooking (1964 edition), and Culinary Arts Institute
Encyclopedic Cookbook (1967 edition). When I first lived on my own in 1963,
I liked my mom's 1944 GHC so well that I tracked down another copy at a used
bookshop. Hundreds of cookbooks later, these are still the ones on my
cookbook shelf in the kitchen, and the first ones I go to for a reference.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four,
unless there are three other people.