"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> 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.

My first cookbook cost 10 cents. I know this because the prices was stamped
on it. Alas, it was part of a series and either the others weren't
available or my parents wouldn't get them for me. It came from a grocery
store. I think it was IGA which is not a store that we shopped at often.

I suspect it was one of those things where the store gave them away as
freebies, a different one each week if you purchased enough groceries. So
this was likely left over and not given away as they were selling it.

I made almost every recipe in there except for some of the coffee. I do
think that I did try one coffee recipe when we had guests over but I can't
remember what it was. I did make the spiced apples a lot. My dad and I
liked those.