The recipe in my 1962 edition of The Joy of Cooking for gingerbread
men on page 677 is worn out. I cant read the number of cups of flour
needed. I would be grateful it anyone has this old copy and would
tell me about the flour. This is a great recipe. It has no eggs and
the gingerbread just gets better and better as it ages. Thanks very
much.

Oh pshaw, on Sat 15 Dec 2007 08:45:14p, honeybunch meant to say...

> The recipe in my 1962 edition of The Joy of Cooking for gingerbread
> men on page 677 is worn out. I cant read the number of cups of flour
> needed. I would be grateful it anyone has this old copy and would
> tell me about the flour. This is a great recipe. It has no eggs and
> the gingerbread just gets better and better as it ages. Thanks very
> much.
>

Sorry, thought I had it, but mine is 1964.

--
Wayne Boatwright

Date: Dec 13,2007

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honeybunch wrote on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:45:14 -0800 (PST):

h> The recipe in my 1962 edition of The Joy of Cooking for
h> gingerbread men on page 677 is worn out. I cant read the
h> number of cups of flour needed. I would be grateful it
h> anyone has this old copy and would tell me about the flour.
h> This is a great recipe. It has no eggs and the gingerbread
h> just gets better and better as it ages. Thanks very much.

I think the same eggless recipe may be on page 662 of the 1963
edition. Anyway, it's

1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour.
1 tsp soda
1/4 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup water

I'm giving the ingredient list so that you can check if it might
be the same recipe. If you want, I can give more details of the
rather long recipe.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On Dec 15, 8:20 pm, "James Silverton replied to honeybunch:

> I think the same eggless recipe may be on page 662 of the 1963
> edition. Anyway, it's
>
> 1/4 cup butter
> 1/2 cup sugar
> 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour.
> 1 tsp soda
> 1/4 tsp cloves
> 1/2 tsp cinnamon
> 1 tsp ginger
> 1/2 tsp salt
> 1/4 cup water
>
> I'm giving the ingredient list so that you can check if it might
> be the same recipe. If you want, I can give more details of the
> rather long recipe.

The recipe in the 1975 edition - Page 712 - is similar. What is
different is you have a choice of white or brown sugar and you beat in
1/2 c. dark molasses. Not sure how all the rest of the instructions
compare to the 1962 ed., but that is the ingredient list.

Coincidentally, I am waiting for delivery of a copy (in very good to
excellent shape I am told) of the 1962 ed. of JOC. It is a gift for
someone that lost his in a house fire. If I can get it to him by
Christmas, that would be sweet .... It's a surprise.

--Lin

In article >,
Sqwertz > wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:47:29 GMT, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
> > Oh pshaw, on Sat 15 Dec 2007 08:45:14p, honeybunch meant to say...
> >
> >> The recipe in my 1962 edition of The Joy of Cooking for gingerbread
> >> men on page 677 is worn out. I cant read the number of cups of flour
> >> needed. I would be grateful it anyone has this old copy and would
> >> tell me about the flour. This is a great recipe. It has no eggs and
> >> the gingerbread just gets better and better as it ages. Thanks very
> >> much.
> >>
> >
> > Sorry, thought I had it, but mine is 1964.
>
> Same at the 62 edition, just has some corrections.
> http://www.cookbkjj.com/college/joy.htm
>
> Correction to my last post. Mine is the '51-'53 edition. But I
> would suspect it's the same.
>
> -swsw

Are you playing "My JOC is older than your JOC?" ;-)
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Notes about our meals in Tuscany have been posted to
http://www.jamlady.eboard.com; 10-16-2007

On Dec 15, 11:20 pm, "James Silverton" >
wrote:
> honeybunch wrote on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:45:14 -0800 (PST):
>
> h> The recipe in my 1962 edition of The Joy of Cooking for
> h> gingerbread men on page 677 is worn out. I cant read the
> h> number of cups of flour needed. I would be grateful it
> h> anyone has this old copy and would tell me about the flour.
> h> This is a great recipe. It has no eggs and the gingerbread
> h> just gets better and better as it ages. Thanks very much.
>
> I think the same eggless recipe may be on page 662 of the 1963
> edition. Anyway, it's
>
> 1/4 cup butter
> 1/2 cup sugar
> 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour.
> 1 tsp soda
> 1/4 tsp cloves
> 1/2 tsp cinnamon
> 1 tsp ginger
> 1/2 tsp salt
> 1/4 cup water
>
> I'm giving the ingredient list so that you can check if it might
> be the same recipe. If you want, I can give more details of the
> rather long recipe.
>
> James Silverton
> Potomac, Maryland
>
> E-mail, with obvious alterations:
> not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not


Thank all you kind people.

Lin wrote on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:11:49 -0800 (PST):

??>> I think the same eggless recipe may be on page 662 of the
??>> 1963 edition. Anyway, it's
??>>
??>> 1/4 cup butter
??>> 1/2 cup sugar
??>> 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour.
??>> 1 tsp soda
??>> 1/4 tsp cloves
??>> 1/2 tsp cinnamon
??>> 1 tsp ginger
??>> 1/2 tsp salt
??>> 1/4 cup water
??>>
??>> I'm giving the ingredient list so that you can check if it
??>> might be the same recipe. If you want, I can give more
??>> details of the rather long recipe.

L> The recipe in the 1975 edition - Page 712 - is similar. What
L> is different is you have a choice of white or brown sugar
L> and you beat in 1/2 c. dark molasses. Not sure how all the
L> rest of the instructions compare to the 1962 ed., but that
L> is the ingredient list.

Thanks for adding that! My recipe has molasses too and the
choice of white and brown sugar. I missed those while typing in
the ingredients. I am not the world's greatest transcriber :-)
Now you know why I did not type the whole long recipe but I
think the ingredients I did give tend to establish that the
recipes are the same and it was only the amount of flour that
was wanted.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not