"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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> 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.

Perhaps the owner of it died or went into a nursing home or some such thing.
My mom got rid of all of her cookbooks before she moved. No need to cook
there and she hates to cook anyway.

I got rid of my cookbook because it was wearing out but like what happened
to you, the new book had totally different recipes. A few of them might
have been the same but I didn't like that book nearly as well as this
version.