The Pillsbury Cookbook

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Summary: Would be 5 stars if larger & had photos
Review: I didn't realize this is a small, yet thick, paperback style book. I thought it would be a larger soft back style, but didn't read the descriptions close enough. HOWEVER, I've tried a couple of the recipes and they are delicious! I found a new favorite meat loaf recipe along with many new ones I want to try such as muffins & rolls. Nearly every recipe looks yummy; most are your basic recipes any standard Betty Crocker would have, but found I like the Pillsbury variations better. I'd highly recommend getting this, especially since used sells for less .... That is all I paid and it was worth every penny!

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Summary: The Pillsbury Cookbook
Review: I have owned this cookbook for along time now and I have found my best recipes in this book. If I am looking for something new or just my old favorites I always turn to this book. I wish they would reprint it. I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who likes great recipes because it's full of them.

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Summary: My Most Used Cookbook
Review: Like so many people, I love cookbooks, and I have shelves and shelves of them.

Unfortunately, most cookbooks only have a handful of really practical recipes (i.e., manageable list of ingredients) and even fewer recipes that actually taste good.

My experience with this cookbook - like all Pillsbury cookbooks (including best of the bakeoff) - is that every single recipe is a real winner. I have tried recipes for cookies, cakes, dinners, salads,... everything. I can promise that these recipes are basically easy and very, very good.

I recently had a large crowd to my home for the holidays. I made the Pillsbury burgundy cherry salad, waldorf salad, cookies and cream cake, and lemon sour cookies (this one was from the bake-off cookbook). I had raves for each and every dish. It even started to become a joke when my mother or mother-in-law would ask, "where did this recipe come from," and I would always respond, "where else? Pillsbury!"

I am in the process of cleaning out my closet of cookbooks. Betty Crocker always disappoints, the Silver Palate recipes are good, but take forever to prepare, Williams and Sonoma cookbooks are not practical. When I'm done, I'll have only Pillsbury cookbooks and the Forum Feasts (another one of my favorites!)

Trust Pillsbury. I also only buy their products (canned icing, pie crusts, ect.). This cookbook and best of the bake-off are all you need. (Check out the quiche, beef stew, fried rice and chicken tetrazinni recipes, too! Family favorites at my house)

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Summary: No Fear of the Unknown
Review: My mother gave me this cookbook when I got married. If I had known no family recipes to share with my new husband, it would not have mattered because the recipes in this cookbook are so scrumptious that they seem like the tried and true recipes passed down from your grandmother.

Eight years and two children later, my dog-eared copy is no longer connected to its binding. But I continue to wrap rubber bands around the pages to hold the precious recipes in place because a number of the recipes have become traditions in our family.

We are a foreign service family so parties are a big part of our lives. Have no fear with this cookbook, there's no need to "try out" any of the recipes before you can serve them to company. These recipes are so good (and easy to pull off) that parties need not mean turmoil in the kitchen.

Having lived overseas for the past 5 years also proved to me that these recipes can be taken anywhere - the ingredients are almost always available and even if substitutions are necessary (i.e. yoghurt instead of sour cream) , the recipes are incredible.

My only disappointment is that the book is no longer available in hard cover. This one is worth it's weight in gold!

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Summary: The best cookbook i ever had
Review: This cook book is the one i use the most out of the hundred of cookbooks I own! I'm getting ready to order another one, mine is getting worn out.