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This is the book I learned to cook from. you can't beat it for simple basics.
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Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book
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It's the book that started it all, the well-loved edition that first bought Betty Crocker cookbooks into American homes and hearts. Published in 1950, this ground-breaking title made cooking easy, it made cooking appealing, and best of all, it made cooking fun. Packed full of practical tips, useful hints, and lavish color photography, this was the book that shaped cooking for generations, the book that people remember. Every recipe you -- or your mother -- ever wanted is here, from pigs in blankets, to Emergency Steak to Chicken Tomato Aspic. Enjoy the clever ideas throughout -- twelve months of birthday cake ideas, showing how to decorate a cake to match each month's gem stone, pointers to make setting up a kitchen easy, or hints to make housework more pleasant. Feel a part of history when making Home Front Macaroni, developed during WW II rationing to stretch meat. Get into the spirit of fun with a Betty Crocker "Cookie Shine" or cookie baking party. People who grew up with this book will want it for the memories; those who are new to the book will want it for its charm and its intelligent approach to cooking. It's a perfect keepsake and a great gift.
416 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1,1950
This edition
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416 pages, Hardcover
- Published
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November 9, 1998 by Betty Crocker
- ISBN
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9780028627717
- ASIN
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0028627717
- Language
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English
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Well this is an interesting cookbook, there are quite a few recipes where I don't even want to be NEAR it, it looks so gross, but some are really fun and things I cook myself today! It's a cute addition if you love mid-century things!
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A great cookbook for when you want to cook from scratch. The brownie and chocolate chip cookie recipes are amazing. I haven't had a single bad recipe.
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grew up using this book. lost the orginal my mother owned but found one at a swap meet.
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I'm biased....I've never had/read a cook book I didn't like, so I loved Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book!!
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Another Awesome Cookbook. Loved The Recipes.
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Awesome cookbook. That amalgam of hundreds of "typical" American women really knows its stuff around the kitchen, tell you what! And here my wife and I are not even as good at cooking as some goddamn amalgam!!
Get the 1950 version of this, then try to figure out what a "hot oven" is, as opposed to a "medium" or "very hot" oven. Burn yourself with a flat iron -- was it "hot," "very hot," or "OhjesusmaryandjosephwhydidyouDOthat?!?!" Hmm?
Also, who uses cakes of yeast nowadays? Germans?
Overall, two thumbs in my pie.
Get the 1950 version of this, then try to figure out what a "hot oven" is, as opposed to a "medium" or "very hot" oven. Burn yourself with a flat iron -- was it "hot," "very hot," or "OhjesusmaryandjosephwhydidyouDOthat?!?!" Hmm?
Also, who uses cakes of yeast nowadays? Germans?
Overall, two thumbs in my pie.
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