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From: jon@msunix.UUCP (Jonathan Hue)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: cookbook suggestions...
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Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 03:06:13 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 19 03:06:13 1985
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Keywords: cookbooks, confidence


Being somewhat new to the net, I don't know if this question has been
asked before, so please, no flames!

Does anyone have suggestions for cookbooks (any category) which you
would consider "safe"?  By that I mean cookbooks with recipes which you
would feel confident in serving to guests the first time you prepared it,
assuming you blindly follow recipes as I do, at least the first time.
Examples of this would be the "Sunset Favorite Recipe" books.  A counter-example
would be the "Gilroy Garlic Festival" books.  There's a pesto recipe in
the which uses 20 cloves of garlic for about 1-1/2 cups of sauce.  That's
what I call unsafe!

Other "safe" cookbooks I know of are "Chef Chu's" chinese cookbook
and "Grand Finales", a dessert cookbook (fantastic chocolate mousse
recipe.  Any takers?).  I don't like cooking something and then
saying, "Gee, I guess that *was* too many chili pods" while my guests
run for the fire extinguishers.  I like recipes that give you a good
middle ground from which you can modify, not those at the extremes
which require you to add or subtract to make something which will
be satisfactory to most people.  Any suggestions?  Post or mail, whichever
is appropriate.

			Thanks in advance,

			Jonathan Hue
			LMSC-Mechanisms & Servos

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