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"Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan" > wrote:

> I've got some old cookbooks I want to get rid of but can't bring myself to
> do it. LOL... one of them is The Pillsbury Family Cookbook. Lots of retro
> stuff in it and it's in a hard cover but inside it's a 3 ring binder, like
> one of those loose leaf notebook thingys I had as a kid.

My 'Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book' from 1968 and my 'Betty
Crocker's Cookbook' from 1970 are both five ring binders. I really
thought I could find a three ring, but I can't.
I do have the 'Household Searchlight Recipe Book' from 1941 which was
originally printed in 1931. It's my oldest. It has recipes for Squirrel
Stew and Prairie Chicken.
The cookbooks are legacy from my mom. I frankly haven't read them. But
in digging them out just now, the Searchlight book was interleaved with
recipes she thought were interesting.
None were the ones I lost and really cared about. Shoot.
She made a crispy tollhouse cookie and a wonderful beef soup that are
lost to me. My beef soup is d*mned good but not great. Hers was great.
My tollhouse cookies are right off the bag and show the lack of my
imagination. I have no idea what to substitute or change for light and
crispy. I do remember, besides their taste, that they were quite pale
and must have been a thin batter since the edges were sharp.
Oh, well.

leo

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