On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:43:41 -0800, Christine Dabney
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>On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:42:42 -0600, Sqwertz >
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>>It takes a lot of encouragement for me to buy a cookbook. and you
>>can certainly tell my tastes in cooking/eating by my bookshelf :-)
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>>-sw
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>I think that is true for any of us that have a cookbook collection.

I have a lot of obscure ethnic cookbooks, and I also collect recipe
pamphlets from oddball products. Today I recieved the pamphlet from
Grandma Browns Oven Baked Beans... very interesting history, she
started the business in 1921 at age 63, today her children run things.
Folks were hard up... a popular meal was a buttered white bread baked
bean sandwich... if you had a little brown sugar or molasses to add
you felt rich. For special occasions there's a recipe for Bean
Baskets; baked beans mixed with the juice from canned pineapples in a
baked tart shell, with half a pineapple ring stuck in as a basket
handle, and baked with a slice of bacon on top. After reading the
pamphlet I can better understand how folks survived the great
depression, of course I already knew as my parents lived through and
survived and prospered... King Obomination subjects would never
survive.