I have an older print edition and it is much easier to navigate. The table of contents list every single recipe in the book. The book is over 3000 pages long. That’s a lot to scroll through to get to the puddings.

A very successful ebook version of the classic Amercan cookbook, updated for the 2020’s. It is very easy to find a recipe, easy to use a link to get to a spice mixture, for example used within. A complaaint about meringue in another review sent me to the “Find” function. The hyper-links work very well, so it was easy to find the recipes. As with the print editions, Joy of Cooking has always supplied lots of info and directions in its own way, so a bit of patience is needed. And it is rewarded. Meringues call for an oven preheated to 200 to 225F depending on size being made. Followin the text, we learn that baking time is up to 2.5 hours, until dry, but not browned. Sounds right. I remember “helping” my aunt make meringues and waiting … and waiting. Once they browned, and they were wonderful all the same.

So very disappointed in this version. I wanted to make a meringue. The recipe didn’t tell me what temperature to bake it at nor how long. I had to dig out my original hard copy version.