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From: mogul@Shasta.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Bad recipes in Joy of Cooking!
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 15:00:43 EST
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> The Joy of Cooking has a lot of useful information in it, but I have to
> agree with somebody's characterization of it (I forget who) that it was 
> "too white bread". Another example of what is wrong with JofC is the
> absolutely awful cheesecake recipe. There are three different cheesecake
> recipes in JofC, and all of them are to cheesecake what velveeta is to
> cheese.

I'll add my praise of JofC as a useful reference, but it pays to
apply some common sense when using the recipes.

For example, I make "Brownies Cockaigne" fairly often, and get
good results.  One day, one of my housemates decided to make a
batch, and read the recipe out of my 2-volume paperbound edition.
(For some reason, I had always used an older, hardbound edition.)
Unfortunately, a minor typographical error had crept in, and she
blindly followed the recipe.

The effects of 2.5 cups of butter on a single batch of brownies
are left to the reader's imagination.