Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcarl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcarl!rusty From: rusty@sdcarl.UUCP (rusty c. wright) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: cookbook suggestions... Message-ID: <253@sdcarl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 10:23:30 EST Article-I.D.: sdcarl.253 Posted: Mon Oct 28 10:23:30 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 23:29:00 EST References: <1034@decwrl.UUCP> <1326@mtgzz.UUCP> Reply-To: rusty@sdcarl.UUCP (Rusty Wright) Organization: Computer Audio Research Lab, UCSD, San Diego, Calif. Lines: 22 In article <1326@mtgzz.UUCP> ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper) writes: >> 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." likewise with mine, the hardcover edition, copyright 1975 (28th printing, october 1982). -- rusty c. wright {ucbvax,ihnp4,akgua,hplabs,sdcsvax}!sdcarl!rusty