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> On Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:57:55 AM UTC-7, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> 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 bought two early editions, both pristine. One at a book fair, the other
> at a used bookstore in Palm Springs. I was looking for one like my mother
> had, which was loved to death a la the Velveteen Rabbit, so I could cook
> some of the old familiar recipes.
>
> I didn't need the second one, but it was in such fabulous shape I
> couldn't resist it. My mother's was spiral bound, so it could lie flat,
> but both of these are hardback.

My mother had the one that predates this one. The one that has the pie
shaped pieces of pictures on the front. I think some of the recipes are
similar. I mostly made cookies from hers. The one that I just got is the
hardbound so much thinner. I think my other one was three ring. Odd that
they make so many different styles.