@Mungencakes@kolektiva.social @stevewfolds @DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social The problem with such foundational cookbooks, is that when they are revised, the new recipes sometimes are nothing like the original. (Occasionally that's a good thing, but often not.)

Case in point: my mother's original Betty Crocker Cookbook had the foundations of many family dinners and (especially) desserts. When her copy was literally falling apart, she purchased the new edition. Unfortunately, the most used recipes had almost no resemblance to those in her copy. Thankfully the cookbook was essentially a 3-ring binder, so she was able to patch pages and put them in the new "cover", relegating the new stuff to a generic binder.