Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtgzz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxf!mhuxi!mhuxh!mhuxv!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtgzz!ecl From: ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: cookbook suggestions... Message-ID: <1326@mtgzz.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 13:26:12 EDT Article-I.D.: mtgzz.1326 Posted: Sat Oct 26 13:26:12 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 20:09:41 EDT References: <1034@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown NJ Lines: 15 > I've found that it has quite a few > errors (both typographical and other) that can destroy a dish. And many of > these errors seem to persist from edition to edition. > > Not long ago, late one night after a long session of programming, I was making > a pate brisee from the recipe in Joy, and (while it seems dumb now) I followed > the instructions and added 3 cups water to 3 cups flour (look it up, it was > still in the editions I saw in a book store recently). After surveying the > mess I calmly ripped the beautiful hard bound book into several pieces, My edition (Signet, November, 1973) calls for "2 cups sifted all-purpose flour" to which you add "5 to 6 tablespoons water." Evelyn C. Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl