On 2018-12-12 6:51 p.m., Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message

>>
>> On the plus side.... I have a computer and printer and access to an
>> endlessÂ* supply of recipes on the internet.Â* Most of those I use these
>> days have been entered into the computer. I have a folder full of good
>> recipes and a couple binders with hard copies. I really don't use the
>> cookbooks very often.
>
> Somebody gave me the Joy Of Cooking cookbook as a gift. Not sure which
> edition but it was given to me in 1997. I guess they thought it was a
> good gift for me because I didn't have it. I didn't have it because a
> former roommate did have it. She never used it and used my Betty Crocker
> one instead. The recipes in that edition and only that one were
> appealing to the two of us. I think that edition was about 1978-1980.
>
> The people that gave me The Joy Of Cooking wanted me to make dinner for
> us using one of the recipes.


Yeah right.Someone gave you a cook book because they wanted you to cook
them a meal fusing one one the recipes. Are you stupid enough that your
friends could get you to do that or stupid enough to think that anyone
here believes that?