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Summary: EXCELLENT
Review: A wonderful book for anyone! It is extremely useful to large families. There are some great recipes in here, and many of them do not take all that long to prepare. A wonderful cookbook, great tips too!
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Summary: Grew Up with This Book
Review: Actually, I haven't read it or even used it, but my mother, grandmother, and great aunt all swear by it. I swear by the food they make using it. It's been the one cookbook that I've been missing for years. It's a great book, and now that I know it's still in print I'm getting copy.
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Summary: essential cookbook
Review: After 25 years of marriage and owning more cookbooks than I care to admit, this is the one cookbook I keep in the kitchen (in addition to my own family recipes notebook). If you have a nutrition question, you'll find answers here. If you need to know quantity per pound or best buy per unit, you'll also find it here. Make your own pancake flour or brown sugar or jam or bread or sauerkraut or soap? It's all here, served with a generous helping of the love of God.
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Summary: The BEST no nonsense Cookbook I've read in a LONG time!
Review: Doris's no nonsense book to cooking filling,frugal,and nutrious meals was a blessing for me.....The recipes for the most part are tasty and the ones that were so so were easily adaptable. Every new wife or mother should have this book!!
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Summary: My family loves these recipes!
Review: Every recipe I've made my family loves, even my finicky 6 year old. This would be a perfect wedding gift for any bride. Thhe recipes are simple and excellent.
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Summary: Definitely an oldie, but goodie!
Review: I am one of many who count this cookbook among their very favorite: both for myself and for gifts! I am glad it is still available, as I will have to order one to replace my well worn copy, as well as one to "gift" to my new daughter-in-law. If you like to cook at all, you will enjoy this wonderful book with TS (time saving) recipes, making your own sprouts, cooking with soybeans, and more. Our favorite "more-with-less snack recipe? Peanut Butter Popcorn!
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Summary: My favorite cookbook
Review: I am still using the first edition of this book which I purchased many years ago as a young bride. It has seen our family through times when money was very tight, and has been wonderful then, but has been even more wonderful during the years when money wasn't such a concern. Those are the times when it is easy to stray away from careful living and a "waste-not" philosophy. Periodically re-reading the thoughtful essay parts of More-With-Less always serves to remind me of the importance of living and cooking simply so that others may simply live. I was so saddened by Doris Janzen Longacre's untimely death.
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Summary: Lots of excellent ideas
Review: I bought this book a little over 20 years ago when my family food budget was extremely limited. I has lots of great ideas and recipes. I am buying one for my daughter who is starting her family and will also have a limited budget. I am glad that it is still in print as it was the first cookbook I thought of when I realized that she too will have a very limited budget.
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Summary: The philosophy is great, the recipes are not........
Review: I bought this book several years ago, and have since sold my copy. I love the philosophy expressed in the book, and for that reason, it makes good reading. But the recipes I tried were disappointing. For just about any recipe listed - whether pancakes, muffins, main dishes, desserts, etc. - you can find a better recipe. This is especially true of the "ethnic" dishes, which are Americanized and the flavors diluted. Someone living in an area with meager resources would find recipes they could subsist on and might find this book useful. But that's not my situation - and hence, my frustration with the recipes. They simply aren't "the best of the best". I was prepared to love this book, based on the glowing reviews and the sincerity of the author; but the test of a cookbook is the recipes, and these just don't deliver.
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Summary: The philosophy is great, the recipes are not........
Review: I bought this book several years ago, and have since sold my copy. I love the philosophy expressed in the book, and for that reason, it makes good reading. But the recipes I tried were disappointing. For just about any recipe listed - whether pancakes, muffins, main dishes, desserts, etc. - you can find a better recipe. This is especially true of the "ethnic" dishes, which are Americanized and the flavors diluted. Someone living in an area with meager resources would find recipes they could subsist on and might find this book useful. But that's not my situation - and hence, my frustration with the recipes. They simply aren't "the best of the best". I was prepared to love this book, based on the glowing reviews and the sincerity of the author; but the test of a cookbook is the recipes, and these just don't deliver.
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