Oh pshaw, on Tue 13 Nov 2007 08:37:40p, Goomba38 meant to say...

> StephanieM wrote:
>> This is my personal opinion. I generally find older cookbooks say pre
>> 1980s, to be more descriptive, give guidence on cooking, and to have
>> more recipes. I think it is simply a product of when we as a culture
>> used to cook more. That is not to say that there aren't many good
>> new cookbooks. I have collected several hundred over the years, but
>> the older ones is what I go to when I really want a good source for a
>> recipe.
>>
>> I actually sought out and bought a 75 version of the JOC after the 90s
>> version came out, and I liked it a lot better.
>>
> I've read it said that cookbooks in the past could assume you knew what
> a cooking term meant (such as "blanch") whereas now they're written
> assuming we're all idiots and they need to spell it out to the nth
> detail. Not unlike the idiot tags on electric hairdryers saying "Do not
> use in the shower"... oy!
>

I used to have a quote from somewhere that read something like this: "I'm
not for eliminating the stupid people. I'd rather take the warning labels
off of everything and let nature take its course."

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Now my 1970's betty crocker cookbook for kids had you deep frying,
baking cakes from scratch, and making homemade fortune cookies. I
find children's cookbooks of today have kids assembling pre sliced
cheese and lunchmeat into something. Some modern cookbooks I really
think teach assembly instead of cooking.

Goomba38 wrote:
>
> >
> > I actually sought out and bought a 75 version of the JOC after the 90s
> > version came out, and I liked it a lot better.
> >
> I've read it said that cookbooks in the past could assume you knew what
> a cooking term meant (such as "blanch") whereas now they're written
> assuming we're all idiots and they need to spell it out to the nth
> detail. Not unlike the idiot tags on electric hairdryers saying "Do not
> use in the shower"... oy!

I'm not sure that is true. My trusty old JoC has sections to explain basic
cooking terms and methods, as did my mothers old Betty Crocker cookbook.
Most of the cookbooks I have are just collections of recipes.