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Old 08-17-2005, 12:40 PM   #1
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More so than a copy of Joy of Cooking?
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Old 08-18-2005, 08:02 AM   #2
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More so than a copy of Joy of Cooking?
The new joy of cooking is an abomination. The old venerable J O'C was a wealth of information on the underlying principles of cooking.

I was given a copy of the new one and I flipped it open to double check instructions for something simple like a roux or making stock, I forget which and I find instead of explanations there is some LAME ASS SHIT like "today's world is so busy no one has time to cook, so it is much easier to open a package of..." I'm paraphrasing, but you get the idea. The book sucks like a pail of leeches.

It's like the pillsbury bake offs. No one bakes anymore, they open a variety of boxes...
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Old 08-18-2005, 09:16 AM   #3
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No one bakes anymore, they open a variety of boxes...
Not so! Not only do I bake from scratch, I like to experiment with recipes from the 30's, 40's and 50's. Yesterday, I baked a Tomato Soup cake (depression hold-over my aunties used to make) and made the cream cheese frosting, too.
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Old 08-19-2005, 11:37 AM   #4
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Not so! Not only do I bake from scratch, I like to experiment with recipes from the 30's, 40's and 50's. Yesterday, I baked a Tomato Soup cake (depression hold-over my aunties used to make) and made the cream cheese frosting, too.
Sorry Bri, I was in a hurry when I typed that last part. I bake all the time too. What I should have typed was that from Pillsbury's perspective no one bakes anymore. I heard a program on the radio about how the bake off has changed beyond recognition.

The opening of boxes has as much to do with pillsbury's other, prebaked products as anything.

Despite me and you and 8 other people we know who also bake, I think a trip to the local mega mart grocery store and a stroll down the cookie/bread aisle will tell you who is baking in this country today.

Me, You, eight other people we know, and Nabisco et al.



maybe someone who is at work, and I can't figure out how it happens, but is able to surf while at work can look up the story on the demise of the Pillsbury bake off.

If I can, I'll look around later.
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