"Jean B." > wrote in
:

> hahabogus wrote:
>> That 'might' is a powerful tool. Thanks for clearing up my brain
>> fart...
>>
>> I'm off to buy red bell peppers and boneless pork butt roasts. I'm
>> off the next 3 days and I see smoked pork butt and smoked red bell
>> peppers in my Future.... Tomorrow is Canada Day (July 1)... so Show
>> Me Your Beaver...as read off a T-shirt.
>>
>> Gonna try a sugarless pork rub on the roasts. Smoked red bell peppers
>> are a good thing.
>>
> But wait! I was out and about and saw a 1944 ed. of the Good
> Housekeeping Cookbook, which, indeed, did sport a plaid cover. (I
> don't know where MY copy of this is--maybe in a box. It isn't
> with the other such "bibles".)
>
> So, actually, GH was in the forefront of such covers, and BH&G
> copied them! Looking at my shelves of older books, there was an
> earlier GH cookbook (1933--it's buried), that has red and white
> stripes on its spine and may turn out to be plaid if I dredge it
> out. It is a smaller format though.
>

All I got to say is neener neener...going to rub my pork now...a mix of 5
spice powder, orange peel, papricka, black pepper, mustard seeds, coarse
salt and aleppo pepper..on consideration I'm going rub the brisket too.
The later it gets the more things stay the same.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

On Mon 30 Jun 2008 05:43:49a, Jean B. told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> I suppose so, but I had a definite dislike for it, and a clear
>> preference for cookbooks that I perceived as more detailed and complex.
>>
>> Apart from the book itself, I think I had a disdain for the fact that
>> there were Betty Crocker branded food products in the supermarket, such
>> as cake mixes, etc. My mother never made anything from a mix, and
>> perhaps that association with the cookbook had some influence.
>>
> Oh! That reminds me. I don't like cookbooks that call for
> specific store-bought products. Ugh.

Nor do I...

> I also don't recall my mother using mixes, which is probably why I
> still harbor some disdain for them. I do have a rather old book
> that gives recipes for such mixes--that is, IF it isn't among the
> lost.
>



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On Mon 30 Jun 2008 06:00:42a, hahabogus told us...

> "Jean B." > wrote in
> :
>
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>> On Sun 29 Jun 2008 10:32:47p, hahabogus told us...
>>>
>>>> Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
>>>> 6.120:
>>>>
>>>>> It was definitely one published in the 1950s, and there was
>>>>> definitely "red" on the cover, but IIRC, I think it was in a plaid.
>>>>>
>>>> The Plaid book was Better Homes and Gardens...A hard covered 3
>>>> ringed binder of great repute.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, Alan. I've never owned either one, but it was definitely the
>>> Betty Crocker book I didn't like. My aunt must have had both.
>>>
>> They are easily confused--by me, anyway. I also remembered the BC
>> as being plaid until that was pointed out to me.
>>
>
> It might not be BH&G it might be Good Housekeeping
>

Only the very old editions of The Good Housekeeping Cookbook had a muted
plaid sort of binding, but never red.

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On Mon 30 Jun 2008 09:38:24a, Jean B. told us...

> hahabogus wrote:
>> That 'might' is a powerful tool. Thanks for clearing up my brain
>> fart...
>>
>> I'm off to buy red bell peppers and boneless pork butt roasts. I'm off
>> the next 3 days and I see smoked pork butt and smoked red bell peppers
>> in my Future.... Tomorrow is Canada Day (July 1)... so Show Me Your
>> Beaver...as read off a T-shirt.
>>
>> Gonna try a sugarless pork rub on the roasts. Smoked red bell peppers
>> are a good thing.
>>
> But wait! I was out and about and saw a 1944 ed. of the Good
> Housekeeping Cookbook, which, indeed, did sport a plaid cover. (I
> don't know where MY copy of this is--maybe in a box. It isn't
> with the other such "bibles".)

Yes, but the plaid used on the GHC was never red. Usually tan/brown sort
of coloring. They dropped the use of the plaid in the latter 1950s.

> So, actually, GH was in the forefront of such covers, and BH&G
> copied them! Looking at my shelves of older books, there was an
> earlier GH cookbook (1933--it's buried), that has red and white
> stripes on its spine and may turn out to be plaid if I dredge it
> out. It is a smaller format though.

Hmm... I don't have that one, but I do have one from sometime in the
1920s, two from the 1940s, 1 from the 1950s, 1 from the 1960s, and one from
the 1970s. None that I have had any type of red design.



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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:43:05 +0200, "Michael Kuettner"
> wrote:

>
>"blake murphy" schrieb :
>> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:23:59 +0200, "Michael Kuettner" wrote:
>>
><snip>
>>>Could you expand a little one the revolution of JOC for a furrinener ?
>>>Re : Mrs. Beeton : Yes, I know books like that. In those days making
>>>crust or yeast dough was taken as a given.
>>>
>>
<snip>
>>
>> all this and much, much more can be found in 'stand facing the stove:
>> the story of the women who gave america the *joy of cooking*'
>>
>> <http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Facing-Stove-America-Cooking/dp/0743229398/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214842464&sr= 8-1>
>>
>> ...a complete biography, along with a healthy dollop of material on
>> historical st. louis, history of cooking styles in america, and a
>> blow-by-blow of rombauer battles with bobbs-merrill and struggles
>> within the family itself. (also detailed are the changes between the
>> various editions and the whys and wherefores thereof.) interesting on
>> a lot of levels. irma was a woman who seemed to get a kick out of
>> life, though she had her share of tragedies.
>>
>Thank you very much !
>
>Cheers,
>
>Michael Kuettner
>

you're more than welcome. the book if fun, if not to everyone's
taste.

your pal,
blake
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