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From: nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe)
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Subject: Re: cookbook suggestions...
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[ Is it safe? (sound of drill in background) ]
Jonathan Hue asks
> 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.
> ...  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.

Rapidly becoming my favorite cookbook is _The_Victory_Garden_Cookbook_,
a companion to the PBS series based in Boston.  After nearly two years 
of use, and many recipes, I have had *no* bad or even mediocre recipes!
I consider that astounding.  It is primarily concerned with vegetables,
but has some meat in several (O(n)) recipes.  It treats the vegetable from 
the garden or market, through the basic ways of preparing it, to the heights
to which the vegetable aspires.  Many of the recipes I have deemed worthy
of posting were from this book.  As far as that goes, we tried the carrot 
cake recipe last weekend with wonderful results.  Sometimes I like more
spice, but the results are never insipid when made as directed (provided 
that good ingredients were used in the first place).  It makes a great
Christmas present....
Nemo
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