Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Mon 26 Mar 2018 12:13:33p, Dave Smith told us...
>
>> On 2018-03-26 2:54 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Monday, March 26, 2018 at 1:15:03 PM UTC-4, U.S. Janet B.
>>> wrote:
>>>> I made up my mind that it was time to get rid of some of my
>>>> cookbooks. But, of course, I have to look through each one
>>>> first. Every time I do that I discover that my tastes have
>>>> changed, I've learned something new, tried something new, or
>>>> something -- meaning that I end up not getting rid of any
>>>> cookbooks. I've got a 2-foot high stack at the front door
>>>> waiting to be taken to either Goodwill or St. Vincent's but
>>>> I'm having a hard time with the other 8 shelves of cookbooks.
>>>> I've begun photo copying recipes that I want to try. Maybe I'll
>>>> keep score that way. "X" number of copied recipes means the
>>>> book stays. Anyone else have this problem? How did you solve
>>>> it? Janet US
>>>
>>> I realized two things.
>>>
>>> 1. I use at most half a dozen cookbooks on a regular basis.
>>> 2. Everything I could possibly want to know is on the Web.
>>
>> On Saturday I went out shopping for replacement cookbooks. My
>> wife has a bad habit of leaving the open cookbook on the counter
>> where she is working and over the years some of the pages have
>> been slopped on so many times that the ingredients are no longer
>> legible. Naturally it happened on the pages with our most
>> frequently used recipes. We headed out to get a new Joy of Cooking
>> and a Better Homes and Gardens. We got the JoC, and it was
>> surprisingly inexpensive. Better Homes and Gardens was another
>> matter. Apparently there are none to be had anywhere, but you can
>> pre-order them now for the release in September.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Unfortunately newer editions don't always have the recipes you were
> used to using from an older edition. I fnid that very frustrating.
>
> Years ago there was a bookstore in lower Manhattan, NYC that carried
> nothing but used cookbooks. I was able to find half a dozen of
> various cookbooks the same as my mother had, all from the 1940s.
>
> Years later I bought a newer edition of one of those cookbooks and
> like it quite a lot. Some years after I bought my mother a still
> newer edition of the same cookbook and it had changed miserably.
>

I was going to mention that. My first realization came when our beloved
caramel custard (with the caramel mixed into the custard mixture) from
an older Joy of Cooking was not in a newer one. Hmmmm. I wonder why I
have several editions?