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Title: Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook : 11th Edition by BH&G Editors ISBN: 0-553-57795-6 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 03 November, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (81 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: AN OLD-TIME FAVOURITE!
Comment: This book would make a perfect gift for someone who is not yet feeling quite "at home in the kitchen." It is a basic, straight-forward, simple to understand cookbook with lots of facts on planning menus and proper nutrition. We have often heard the saying of an inexperienced person in the kitchen, "He or she would not know how to boil water!" Well, this book will tell you how to do such simple things as boil an egg and have it come out the way you want it - softboiled or hardboiled. There is a section dealing with various cuts of meats that will help the reader to understand which ones make great stews and pot roasts, and which ones provide the more tender, lean oven roasts. If you have a sweet tooth, you will learn everything from how to make a pie crust (easier said than done the first time around) for that scrumptous apple pie, to how to make some of your favourite candies. This book comes highly recommended and is one you will likely keep in your kitchen even after you have gathered experience and progressed to more complex, detailed recipes.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for the "newlywed" !
Comment: My mother gave me an earlier edition of this book thirty-two years ago for my bridal shower. The recipes and instructions, along with the illustrations, are very clear and easy to follow. I have accumulated many cook books through the years, but my Better Homes and Garden is, by far, my favorite for all kinds of references I need to make. From where to properly place a fork at the table to making and canning strawberry jam, I still refer to BH&G, solely, several times a week for all my cooking and baking needs. My BH&G cook book is tattered and worn, but as far as I'm concerned, it was the most useful gift I ever received. Most importantly, the recipes contain ingredients that are usually found in your home or can easily be obtained. I'm an excellent cook and baker and I attribute that to my BH&G cook book, every novice cook should own one !
Rating: 3
Summary: Ain't what it used to be
Comment: My 1970s edition of this cookbook was a surefire guide to simple, straightforward homecooking. The current edition has lost the charm -- and many of the best recipes -- of the original without gaining compensatory sophistication.
Take, for instance, biscuits: old editions had the best basic biscuit recipe. The new biscuits require a special trip to the market for ingredients. Yet the cookbook held onto horrors like chop suey!
The recipes over-emphasize canned and packaged ingredients and under-emphasize basic cooking techniques that might allow the aspiring cook to figure out how to substitute convenience ingredients for more complicated recipes. It's very much a cookbook for people who want to reproduce the food at the local supermarket deli, at twice the cost.
That said, there aren't many basic, put-food-on-the-table-every-night cookbooks out there. If you need to smack some chicken and rice on the dinner table every night of your life, you could do worse.
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Title: Betty Crocker's Cookbook : Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today by Betty Crocker Editors ISBN: 0764560794 Publisher: Betty Crocker Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Betty Crocker's Cooking Basics : Learning to Cook with Confidence by Betty Crocker Editors ISBN: 0028624513 Publisher: Betty Crocker Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Pillsbury Complete Cookbook : Recipes from America's Most-Trusted Kitchens by Pillsbury Company ISBN: 0609602845 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 18 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook by Betty Crocker Editors ISBN: 0028627717 Publisher: Betty Crocker Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Fannie Farmer Cookbook : Anniversary by Marion Cunningham, Fannie Farmer Cookbook Corporation, Archibald Candy Corporation, Lauren Jarrett ISBN: 0679450815 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 09 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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