I have TWO COPIES of that cookbook! One from the early 80’s, now worn and stained and pages falling out fro use, and the other we just got last week, all new and shiny plastic coated pages from 2013...........................
My wife’s is mid-70s — yes, lots of torn pages falling out, but still a great book. Lots of “homemakers” learned from that book.
Funny Thanksgiving story. I was a freshman at Mizzou a thousand miles from home (back in innocent days) and some pledge brothers and I stayed in the frat house over Thanksgiving (nobody flew in that era of highly regulated air fares). We whipped up a home-cooked Thanksgiving feast in the kitchen and I was given the responsibility for the homemade bread. No problem mixing up the dough and kneading it, but what in the world was this instruction to let the dough “rise”? Oh well, what do those cookbook authors know, anyway? I popped the dough in the hot oven straight from kneading and pounding down. You can imagine the gooey hot glop we pulled from the oven 35 minutes later. Yuck! It was like eating homemade PlayDough.