Betty Crocker's New Cookbook

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Summary: My favourite cookbook
Review: A year ago I bought this book. I think it was my best Amazon purchase. It teaches everything you need to know to get started in the kitchen. With detailed tutorials, it's a foolprof book.
This edition is also very confortable to use.
It's divided in several chapters: Cook's techniques and Ingridients; Appetizers and Beverages; Breads (quick breads like muffins,biscuits, pancakes; yeast breads like french bread, challah bread); Cakes and Pies; Cookies and candies; Desserts (like Cheesecake); Eggs and cheese; Fish and Shellfish; Grains and Legumes; Meats; Pasta; Poultry; Salads and salad dressings (including the classic Ceasar's Salad and Creamy Coleslaw); Sauces, seasonings and condiments; Stews, soups and Sandwiches; Vegetables; Special Helps and Index.
In every chapter you'll find how to's and tecniches that will help you solve cooking problems. Every recipe has nutritional information like calories, fat etc. Some of them include a lighter version.
If you are an unexperienced, beginner, or intermidiate cook, this is a must have in your kitchen.

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Summary: A must have for new cooks or brides to be.
Review: As a bride to be a little over a year ago and a cooking nightmare, this was the perfect gift for me. Betty Crocker's cookbook provides step-by-step instructions to everyday dishes and techniques. Included are explanations of what may have gone wrong if your cake/bread/etc. doesn't turn out. Friends have begun to rave at my culinary skills and I am loving the kitchen. The book is also a great reference on how to shop and cook various meats and vegetables. It is like having your mum or another great guide in your kitchen.

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Summary: The Best Basic Cookbook Made
Review: For years Betty Crocker, an old 1968 edition my mother received as wedding gift, was the only cookbook I owned. It basically taught me how to cook. As the old edition finally fell apart shortly after my marriage, I purchased the "Betty Crocker New Cookbook" a few years back and it has served me well.

It's still the best, for the money, all-purpose cookbook on the market, offering simple recipes with clear instructions for everyday food we all eat--no nouvelle cuisine here. The updated version simply keeps with the times, adding new techniques which take into account modern equipment and food mores (things like fat, cholesterol and sodium are taken into consider, but this isn't a diet cookbook).

All in all, the "New Betty Crocker Cookbook" is a super all-purpose cookbook, offering well-tested, simple recipes for just about any food you can think of. Alongside the classic "Fannie Farmer Cookbook," the "Joy of Cooking" and something new from Martha Stewart (I like the "Martha Stewart Living Cookbook," which is a compilation of recipes from her magazine) and/or Cook's Illustrated (either "The Best Recipe" or the "Cook's Bible"), the "New Betty Crocker Cookbook" will create a perfectly balanced recipe collection for the experienced cook or novice baker.

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Summary: A good gift for those not from the US
Review: I gave this book and Better Homes and Garden Cookbook to my sister-in-law living in Pakistan. She wanted to learn some "basic" American cooking, or I should say the "melting pot" cooking we have. She enjoys them both as do I . . . I seem to collect a lot of cookbooks -- but when asked by her to send some reflecting American cooking these were the two I chose.

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Summary: A MUST HAVE
Review: I have lots of cookbooks, but I keep coming back to this one time and time again. It has everything you need to know! It truly lives up to its name.
It has tips on meat and poultry that can't be beat. It even shows the cuts of meat. It is a must have for beginners, and even for older folks like me.
This is a perfect gift for that graduate or that sister in law who needs a little extra help in the kitchen.

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Summary: Great for inexperienced cooks!
Review: I received this book as a wedding gift, and it's probably the most used gift we got. I refer to it often, and look in it for new ideas on things to serve. It has all the popular classics, banana bread, cookies, to roasts and how to bake a ham. It is a great gift to the inexperienced and expert cooks alike.

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Summary: Makes a Great Wedding/ College Graduation Gift
Review: My mother gave this to me before I got married 2 years ago. It is THE definitive cookbook for the less experienced cookbook and is also highly useful for the more experienced chef.

The three-ring binder makes for easy flipping. Easy to read charts make it simple to find out about cooking times, cuts of meat, serving sizes, and a variety of how-to's. For example: preparing bread crumbs, dicing, snipping, roasting, etc. A glossary of terms helps familiarize the new cook with common terms found in recipes.

On to the recipes. This cookbook provides a variety of recipes that will please almost any appetite. Each recipe includes nutritional information on fat content and percentage of saturated fat, as well as protein and carbohydrate content. Some recipes even offer low-fat versions or simple alterations to jazz up the regular recipe. Any cook would appreciate the addition of this cookbook to his collection.

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Summary: The Best Basic Cookbook Made
Review: This is a great little cookbook that was most definitely worth the money! It gives plenty of basic cooking instruction as well as recipies, and loads of great photos. It will not offer much challenge to an advanced cook, but then it is not geared towards that. Rather, it is ideal for someone like me- I am good in the kitchen, but there's plenty I could learn. I needed a book that would give me fundamentals on everything from how long to do a roast to how to bake a batch of sugar cookies.

Of course, since this is a basic book the recipies are somewhat limited. This will not be the only cookbook that you will ever want to use, especially if you really like to cook. Rather, this is a good first cookbook to have, the place to start your cooking library. Learn to use this book, then take off from there with whatever style or cuisine you like!

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Summary: The BEST only gets BETTER.
Review: What's the matter, cookie? Don't know a sauce-pan from a fondue pot? Not to worry, Aunt Betty Crocker will tell you everything you need to know. In this classic book, appropriately subtitiled "Everything You Need to Know to Cook," you'll be able to make do for dinner in thirty minutes or less, or plan a menu for fifteen guests or more (and set the table appropriately as well), by merely looking up the appropriate recepie. It works at all times, and under all circumstances. Best of all, it assumes no knowledge on the part of the average person! Don't know how to boil water? It's okay, Betty Crocker will walk you through step-by-step through hundreds of mouth-watering recepies; from basic meatloaf to coq-au-vin; with uinformly fine results. Don't wait, cookie. BUY NOW for the best of the Best! It's been called, and is arguably, the ONLY cookbook you'll ever need.