On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:59:59 -1000, dsi1
> wrote:

>On 9/17/2014 10:57 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> I got the Betty Crocker one from 1969/1976. This appears to be the same
>> one that I used to have but has a different spine on it. So it will
>> take much much less room in my closet. Whoever had it didn't appear to
>> have used it at all. Almost as good as new but the pages are a tad
>> crispy from age.
>>
>> I think this is going to work out well. I see many meat recipes that
>> look like they will work for us. I really didn't pay much attention to
>> meat recipes when I had it prior because I was a vegetarian then. I
>> also see some things that I had forgotten about like Buttons and Bows
>> which is an easy recipe for sweetened biscuits.
>>
>> So... Very happy!
>
>I grew up with the Better Homes New Cookbook. My mom must have gotten it
>for me when I was a kid. My parents would do stuff like that. They would
>see that I had an interest in something and would provide me support,
>although at the time, I was completely oblivious to what they were doing.
>
>When I got older, I had the Good Housekeeping cookbook. I don't remember
>where that came from but my parents might have bought that for me too.
>It's a book that has followed me for most of my life.

I also grew up with the Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook. My mother
gave me a copy circa 1972 when I got married.

I ended up passing it on to my daughter when she got married, but I
missed it, so she bought me a new copy, but the recipes in the newer
edition were all different.

I finally found a copy of my original one at a yard sale, for $2. Why
anyone would put a classic cookbook like that in a yard sale is beyond
me.

Doris