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From: gary@rochester.UUCP (Gary Cottrell)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Bad recipes in Joy of Cooking!
Message-ID: <7157@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 15:32:05 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  9 15:32:05 1985
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In article <3590@Shasta.ARPA> mogul@Shasta.ARPA writes:
>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.
My friend Diane Litman made the recipe this way, and I loved it!
Us milkfat cravers really like that particular typo! (It helps to
keep them refridgerated; they don't "run" as much that way!

gary cottrell