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Nancy Gartenman Posted - Jul 04 2020 : 10:11:03 AM


This is one of my favorite old Cookbooks. Went through the whole thing today and Now I'm hungry.
Hot here today but that's ok. Love summer. Busy weekend, Three Birthdays in the family, so we will all be at my Daughter's house for lots of good food. And I would guess that there will be fireworks going off even though they are not suppose to be. So we will all be sitting on the front porch eating to much.
Happy 4th to all.


NANCY JO
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levisgrammy Posted - Jul 12 2020 : 1:54:59 PM
Shirley, I have the B&H too. Falling apart but I love the potato salad recipe in there.

NancyJo,
I like your little red tea pot. Is that a sugar bowl in front of it?

~Denise
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jpbluesky Posted - Jul 12 2020 : 07:14:38 AM
I still have my 1968 Better Homes and Garden cookbook. Red checked. I use it most!

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levisgrammy Posted - Jul 09 2020 : 06:51:42 AM
Deb, mine is so beat up. It has been taped together in so many places but I love it!

~Denise
Sister #43~1/18/2007

"Home is where we find comfort, security, memories, friendship, hospitality, and above all, family. It is the place that deserves our commitment and loyalty." William J. Bennett

"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105

http://www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com/
City Chick Posted - Jul 09 2020 : 06:34:38 AM
Denise- I had that top one too. I can’t find it now that we’ve moved. :( it had the best banana bread recipe!

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levisgrammy Posted - Jul 08 2020 : 7:10:17 PM
This is the one I got when I married.



Later I purchased this in three ring binder
form



~Denise
Sister #43~1/18/2007

"Home is where we find comfort, security, memories, friendship, hospitality, and above all, family. It is the place that deserves our commitment and loyalty." William J. Bennett

"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105

http://www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com/
StitchinWitch Posted - Jul 07 2020 : 11:04:51 PM
Fanny Farmer has always been my go-to cookbook. I got a paperback edition the I got married, wore it out and found the gold edition hardback at the library bookstail for 25 cents.
What I have noticed looking at old recipes is all the fat that is used. If I followed them I would sure weight a lot more than I do now; either that or would have had a heart attack ten years ago.

Judith

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Bonnie Ellis Posted - Jul 07 2020 : 2:21:23 PM
The food choices today are surely different than that old standby. I use mine all the time too but I like old-fashioned food and not all the new doctored up stuff. My age I suppose but I worked on the Pillsbury Bakeoff and that was a hoot. Each recipe had to be tested to see what goofy thing a consumer could do to it and why it didn't come out like it should. Then when they said my cake is only an inch high, we had some idea of what they must have done. But what is really fun is to see cookbooks from the 1800s. There were no standard measurements then and until Fanny Farmer came out with her cooking school and insisted on standards, a cup for one person might be a thimble-ful for others. Try to follow THOSE recipes. General Mills and Betty Crocker are from my town so I have toured their test kitchens and really trust her recipes.

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Nancy Gartenman Posted - Jul 07 2020 : 07:48:03 AM
Sara, that's a good price on the thrift books. Thanks for checking that out. I was going to answer Dawn about the date 1950. That's a while ago. Boy time sure does go by.


NANCY JO
YellowRose Posted - Jul 07 2020 : 05:39:33 AM
Nancy Jo I was curious about your cookbook so I looked it up on Thrift Books. It was the first ever Betty Crocker cookbook to be published in 1950. Thrift Books prices: First edition $25.00 - later edition in the 1970s in good condition under $5.

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MaryJanesNiece Posted - Jul 06 2020 : 1:31:47 PM
Nancy, your book looks great on the outside! You have taken great care of that cookbook! I hope you had a wonderful 4th of July with your family!

Krista
ddmashayekhi Posted - Jul 05 2020 : 3:07:22 PM
What year was your book published Nancy? It looks like it is in great shape.

Dawn in IL

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LadyInRed Posted - Jul 05 2020 : 12:34:53 PM
Nancy Jo:
I have seen that Cook Book in Pictures like yours but never really held one in my hands so I could browse through it!
It sure is pretty on the outside!!!

Hope everyone had a good 4th. Mine was just OK! I will be glad when the Fireworks are over in the Neighborhoods.
My Dog freaks over them.

Love, Hugs, and Joy,
Peggy



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Red Tractor Girl Posted - Jul 05 2020 : 12:23:49 PM
The old Betty Crocker Cookbooks were so sweet! Nancy, your copy looks to be in mint condition too.

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levisgrammy Posted - Jul 04 2020 : 5:27:00 PM
Nancy, that is one of my favorites too. I have one I got when I got married that was put out by Betty Crocker. It is falling apart. So I bought the one like in your picture. I thought it would be a new version of the same one but it is not. I really like them both.

~Denise
Sister #43~1/18/2007

"Home is where we find comfort, security, memories, friendship, hospitality, and above all, family. It is the place that deserves our commitment and loyalty." William J. Bennett

"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105

http://www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com/

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