This is the book I learned to cook from. you can't beat it for simple basics.

How to cook and stories about recipes

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!

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.

grew up using this book. lost the orginal my mother owned but found one at a swap meet.

I'm biased....I've never had/read a cook book I didn't like, so I loved Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book!!

Another Awesome Cookbook. Loved The Recipes.

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.

A great book

It's a classic!! No kitchen should be fully stocked without this book!!

This is the best cook book! I love the simplistic recipes and old school favorites! This book is an essential for the lovers of true scratch cooking!

My favorite go-to cookbook. I grew up with my mom's 1970's version and found it the best cookbook. I went online and my choices were the 1950's throwback cookbook (this one), or a new "updated" one published only a year or two ago. After reading reviews, I opted for the classic version. The popover recipe is the best I've tried. I love the tips and hints throughout the book. And of course, the old-fashioned photos and drawings are awesome. The only disappointment about the 1950's version is the index. Everything is categorized and then alphabetized so it's not easy looking up something specific. For instance, potato recipes are under vegetables, but a random potato recipe might be under another section. And the pages want to rip out of the ringbound cover quite often. It would have been sturdier as a hardback cookbook, not ringbound. For these reasons, I rated this cookbook with 4 instead of 5 stars.