danke schon!

(just imagine the "dotdot" over the 'o')

You can get around the dot-dot issue by spelling is Schoen.

Means the same, sounds the same ...

I miss the EssTzet, though. I was devestated to hear the Germans dropped it.

wolf--you're as German as a wiener schnitzel wearing a lederhosen! And that is something I'd pay to see!!

My rendition of Deutschland Über Alles would put a tear in your eye.

What's better about the old one? Is it a specific recipe you're looking for?

Yes! The momster has it. It's now the color of the floor and held together with a rubber band, however :)

Definitely check Ebay. But I've most often found out-of-print issues by searching on Amazon.com. They will put you in touch with book dealers who often have the original editions. That was how I found the recipe book for my retro Sunbeam mixmaster.

No, I just long for simpler times. And somebody here in the cellar said the new edition sucks. Too much reliance on convenience foods.

We've got the '78 edition here, it is full of lardy goodness (well shortening anyway) so you don't need a first edition just avoid the recent printings. I was raised in a home with an ancient copy and lard in the fridge, look how well adjusted I am!

I know what you mean. We have all the old issues of the Pilsbury Bakeoff winners that they used to publish but have not bought any more of them for more than a decade. All they have is recipes with packaged pre-processed ingredients and quick-n-easy stuff meant to feed without involving yourself much in the process :yelsick:

I have and use an older Joy, but I also understand the need for make-it-quick recipes. There are many nights where the leftovers are all gone and there's no time for elaborate cooking. Then the throw-three-things-together-and-call-it-a-meal recipes come in handy.

Oh, I totally agree. But to win money in a baking contest that used to rate national attention?

My cousin has a masters in Home Economics. The whole emphasis is on quick and easy for them, you know. She teaches at the prisons in the LA area, trying to help some of those women who have children and not much else to learn how they can make home and food in general more interesting and effective. Unfortunately, when she gets excited about a recipe and passes it to the momster and me there is never anything that catches our interest. The momster was widowed early in life and I could not have children, so I guess we have never had the pressures that most of you guys go through to get food cooked and on the table every night. So little pressure, in fact, that I would just as soon eat out of a can as cook something more complex if there is anything else I want to do. Cooking a fine meal is an art form to me, but I increasingly feel less interest in being the artist because there is nobody to appreciate the work.

I've just found the 1967 Joy of Cooking on eBay and bought it for £0.99 ($1.76)! Okay, it's going to cost £5.00 ($8.91) postage, but after the recommendation on here I thought it was worth getting a copy.

Now I'll just have to keep asking for translations every time I want to make something...!

The Way To Cook -- Julia Child (my kitchen Goddess)

I am trying to rebuild my collection of cookbooks that I lost in our house fire in '03. I love buying books, but I hate re-buying them!
I haven't gotten around to replacing the classics yet, but I will get there eventually.

Oo, Wolfie! :love:

Time to go shopping for spotty bananas... I wonder if using cooked plantain makes a perceptible difference?