When did cookbooks give up on calling for ingredients? Graham crackers crumbs, refrigerated pie shell, refrigerated pastry. When did these get promoted to ingredient? I thought ingredients were flour, milk, and sugar. A pie made with a graham cracker crumb and butter crust, and chocolate pudding as the package directs, and cool whip topping may be good, but it is not cooking and we shouldn't need a cookbook to tell us how.
Where is the dividing line? How can we know before we buy a cookbook that it is or is not going to call for something prepackaged or pre-made? I feel like there should be a warning on the books that aren't really cookbooks.
Perhaps I have it backwards, and the real cookbooks have some word on them to let me know that they aren't going to call for one package marshmallows. Gourmet, epicurean, connoisseur, foodie.
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