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Reminds me of being a child when my mom used this extensively. If pressed to have only one cookbook in my kitchen this would be it. Product delivered in a timely manner. The product itself is the quintessential midwestern cookbook.
I love the tabbed dividers between chapters and the whimsical illustrations of animated foods as well as the lovely photos of delicious dishes. They may have had their recipes handed down to them from their mothers.My mother was much more of a career woman than a homemaker, so cooking wasn't as much a priority for her - just something that had to get done - usually by means of a crock pot or pressure cooker. Having made several tasty dishes from this book, I'm thinking about giving all my other cookbooks the heave-ho. I hate the ones that don't stay open on the counter and more than that, I hate when pages fall out.
Unlike most of the other reviewers here, I didn't have this cookbook in the past and neither did my mother. I have learned not only how to make tasty foods that smell great, but also how to present them attractively and how to get more vegetables into my diet in an appetizing way, which was more than I had bargained for. I found out about Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book in an article in Reminisce Magazine that I found in the laundromat. There was a photo of a reader's copy of this cookbook. I didn't care for most of her cooking, and her cookbook was by Fannie Farmer.Women of my generation had some Home Ec. I have too many other cookbooks that I rarely or never even use.
The language of the text is colorful, so it's very engaging as well as educational. Most other cookbooks are so dry and boring. I received my book even before the e.t.a. The binder is lovely and the glossy, ring-bound pages are a pleasure to flip through. classes to teach us the basics of nutrition and measurements and food safety, but we were raised more to focus on our careers. that Amazon.com gave me. I looked it up here on Amazon and read all the reviews for it and was interested in buying it.
The price is so much better here on Amazon than in stores, even taking shipping into account. But I bought this book because I love retro things from the 50's and I was also hoping to replace all those cookbooks and card recipes cluttering up my kitchen with one that would get more use. This cookbook originally would've been popular around my late grandmothers' times, but they were country girls who made simple rustic dishes, and I never saw them even use cookbooks. Besides, there are so many foods out there that can just be popped into the microwave, as well as restaurants just about everywhere I look, so it seems that learning to really cook isn't such a necessity.
this book is wonderful to use in cooking and teaching kids to learn to cook.
I was thrilled to get a replacement copy that has meant alot to me over the years. Thanks for the great service and quality of the cookbook. Thanks again, Sheila I look forward to making the cake donuts once again. I had a much earlier version of the Betty Crocker Cookbook that was given to me as a young girl by my parents. It managed to get misplaced during our recent move from California to North Carolina.
If you're looking for a how-to book to recapture the all-but-dead traditions of making your own lemonaid; baking a cake, cooking meals (real meals, not something that follows the diet-of-the-month game plan) then this is the book you want. This cookbook is a wonderful treasure chest full of forgotten gems.
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