Product Description
Completely revised and updated with a fresh new design. More than 1,400 recipes—tested and perfected in the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen–including 400+ quick and easy ones. All-new 20-Minute chapter, which includes more than 45 fast meal solutions. More recipes on your favorite topics: Cookies, Desserts, Grilling and Slow Cooker. Plus, the Grilling chapter now features recipes for the turkey fryer and more recipes for the smoke cooke… More >>
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book
5 Responses to “Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book”
I also have an earlier book like this…but page 239 is missing…my favorite rubarb custard pie…does anyone have this…islandoaks@hotmail.com.Thanks Barbara
Rating: 5 / 5
I think this cookbook is awful. Last weekend, I tried to make the spinach quiche recipe. It called for 1 pastry crust and a mixture of bacon, cheese, spinach and 8 eggs! I thought 8 eggs sounded like a lot for 1 pie crust, so I used 7. But, I still had twice as much filling as I needed. So after I had already cleaned-up the pastry making mess, I had to start all over making another pie crust. My only other choice was to waste the other half of the filling. You would think that when people write a cookbook they would make sure the amount of filling in a recipe will fit in the amount of crust they tell you to make.
Rating: 1 / 5
With essential recipes like how to bake a cake from a mix (no joke!) and insightful “emergency” tips like how to substitute artificial bacon bits if you run out of bacon (again, no joke!), this cookbook ought to be called “The idiot’s guide to cooking”.
Though the writers devote lots of space to cooking with processed, consumer-product foods, they don’t spare much room for vegetarian, vegan, low-fat or other generally healthy cooking techniques. Even the most basic dishes are loaded with fat: the waffle recipe calls for half a cup of oil — 115 grams of fat or 1000 calories right there!
Rating: 1 / 5
My youngest son ( 22 and the 11th of that many) just got out of the navy and got his first appartmet, and so, Mom trying to help says:look, for your first cookbook, there is NONE better than the red and white checkered cookbook. There are many many others, but for a novice, this is the ONE.
So, I go on Amazon.com and order him a used book. I have bought countless used books from amazon and was always happy with them- never had a bad book even though it was marked used and some wear. man, this one took the “liberty” of those words to the max.
The other one I bought at the time was also marked and tagged “used and some wear” but by and large, I have been happy as a clam with my purchases. Before we go any farther here, I need it clearly understood, I write for magazines, periodicals and have several books published (thank god for spellcheck and ghostwriters)and I own over 5000 books- I know as I had 2 interns all summer that were paid for by a grant to come in dailey and catalogue my books- 1st editions, entire collections and collectors editions.
This is by far and away the worst book I have bought from Amazon.com
Rating: 3 / 5
It has a lot of recipes in it but without pictures it’s hard to tempt the chef into trying them..not to mention some recipes can be complex and a photo really assists the inexperienced baker (like myself).
After buying this I really regretted the decision and should have gone with a picture book instead.
Rating: 2 / 5