Product Description
For 50 years Betty Crocker has reigned autarchic in America's kitchens, her devoted recommendation and easy-to-follow recipes assisting cooks of all levels turn assured in a kitchen. Now updated for a new millennium, a cookbook, nicknamed "Big Red," has been totally revised and updated to simulate a cooking trends and tastes of today. Stumped by chayote squash? Want to make a ideal apple cake or find new recipes for a bread machine? It's all right here in this accessible book:
- More than 950 recipes, from appetizers to desserts, to cover any cooking need - pot roast, pasta, pumpkin bread, and some-more
- Step-by-step line art and photographs with specific "how-to" instructions to beam we by new techniques
- Beautiful food photography that shows a finished results; i.d. photos of such dishes as mushrooms and outlandish fruits to assistance we emporium with confidence
- Easy meat-roasting charts, numbered recipe steps, and credentials times with any recipe that keep cooking simple?and relaxing
What's New in a 9th Edition:
- 30-Minute Recipes and Reduced-Fat/Low-Calorie Recipes tagged so they can be found in a peep
- Individual chapters on barbecuing and vegetarian dishes
- Expanded information on fruits and vegetables
- Crockpot recipes
- Information on organic food
- "Learn with Betty" photographs that beam we by cooking techniques
- Dietary Exchanges in any recipe's nourishment analysis
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #62292 in Books
- Published on: 2000-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Ring-bound
- 576 pages
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Betty Crocker's Cookbook is 50! In celebration, an updated and stretched ninth book of this American classical reminds us once again of a value of good out-of-date comfort food. The strange Big Red Cookbook was immediately renouned with a postwar assembly seeking elementary cooking recommendation and elementary recipes that took advantage of several then-new preference products. The ninth book stays loyal to a roots, presenting model instruction, delicious mainstream dishes (that still make use of preference dishes and a products of primogenitor association General Mills), and, many notably, standout chapters on baking and dessert specialties. New to this edition, that offers scarcely 1,000 recipes, are barbecuing and vegetarian chapters; present nourishment information; additional tone photos; and contemporary formulas for a likes of Brie with Caramelized Onions, Asiago Bread, and Tandoori Chicken with Chutney.
Instruction was and is a book's strongest suit, and any cook--novice to professional--will advantage from a many how-to features. These embody step-by-step directions with photos, tips for kitchen timesaving, and troubleshooting advice. The book also includes several extensive glossaries (those on cooking terms and mixture are quite good). Standouts among a immeasurable recipe collection, some-more than 300 of that are designated quick or low fat, embody aged favorites such as Macaroni and Cheese, Old-Fashioned Baked Beans, and Lemon Chiffon Cake. A few newer ones, such as Sun-Dried Tomato and Olive Bread, also qualify. Published, as ever, in a loose-leaf binder, a book celebrates American culinary know-how, a broad-based tradition of good home cooking, model baking, and a self-assurance that food and commerce can mix to assistance people prepare easier and eat better. Happy birthday indeed! --Arthur Boehm
From a Publisher
New Features in this sparkling new landmark book include:
Icons via a book highlighting quick and low-fat recipes
Two new chapters on Grilling and Vegetarian
Expanded information in a Vegetables and Fruits section
Crockpot and bread appurtenance recipes in suitable chapters
Learn with Betty step-by-step photos on subjects such as cooking rice, beef doneness, scrambling eggs, defeat cream, and so most more...
Dietary exchanges with nourishment research
Top 10 food allergies draft
From a Back Cover
The Best Just Got Better
The Most Trusted Cookbook
From foolproof, constant recipes to arguable how-to advice, a Betty Crocker Cookbook has all we need for a approach we prepare today. Whether you're a new or gifted cook, The Betty CrockerCookbook® is a book for you!
Comprehensive resource, with some-more than 1,000 easy-to-follow recipes
Creative cooking ideas, including some-more than 400 recipe variations
Beautiful design, with 300 tone photos and 55 illustrations
All-new chapters: "Casseroles & Slow-Cooker" and "20 Minutes or Less"
Fast recipes flagged throughout—130 prepared in 20 mins or less!
Great-tasting Low-Fat recipes specifically marked—more than 185 in all
Helpful Betty's Cures to solve common baking problems
Useful Learn with Betty photos to assistance get ideal formula any time
Detailed nourishment information, and dietary exchanges and carb choices
The all-new Tenth Edition—a ideal 10!
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149 of 150 people found a following examination helpful.
A must-have for any kitchen!
By Lisa Shea
I have always had a Betty Crocker cookbook around. It was a initial cookbook we took with me when we altered divided from home, and it still stays a initial book we squeeze for if we have *any* questions about a recipe I'm making.
The book is good for cooks of all levels. It has a lot of good rudimentary information - how do we boil an egg? What are a opposite cuts of meat? It provides a lot of easy recipes that ambience juicy and are healthful as well.
In addition, a book also eases we into many modernized recipes. Looking to prepare a Thanksgiving cooking for a relatives? Trying to make a birthday cooking unequivocally special? This cookbook has a recipes for you, all easy to know and with beautiful photos.
This chronicle is unequivocally an alleviation on prior versions as well. There is information on barbecuing and vegetarian meals, something lacking in a final versions. They've also combined in a array of racial dishes that are utterly tasty.
If this book isn't on your kitchen shelf, be certain to buy a copy!
89 of 89 people found a following examination helpful.
You will be agreeably surprised
By Stephanie Manley
You will be agreeably astounded by this book. This book has a lot of information that goes along with a recipes. You will be vacant during all of a supplimental information that goes into this book. The approach to buy uninformed vegetables, how to demeanour for good cuts of meat, ways to widen meat, and a horde of ideas with any recipe. The book is clearly written, and it creates it unequivocally easy to read. There are cinema for many recipes as well, this cinema aren't of only a finished product either. we consider we will find this book covers a basics, and goes good over that. If we know someone that is only starting out, or maybe training to prepare this would be a good choice for them.
189 of 202 people found a following examination helpful.
Betty's Not What She Used to Be
By Tom Anderson
Time was when a difference Betty Crocker indeed stood for a best in general-purpose cookbooks, nonetheless a recipes, for improved or for worse, were always a product of their times. The unequivocally initial "Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book" was published in 1950 (still available), revolutionized how cookbooks were produced, and was an huge best-seller. The recipes were a outcome of many consummate contrast in a company's kitchens and in homes opposite America. This was cooking from blemish with unequivocally tiny faith on preference dishes in a pages. This gradually altered as Betty and her books became some-more and some-more of a shill for General Mills' products and her name got intoxicated on one brew after another to a wreckage of good cooking.
The 1956 book was an stretched chronicle of a strange 1950 book, with many some-more recipes and clearer detailed reproduction. It contains a many recipes of a whole array and is, in my opinion, a best cookbook Betty ever made. The subsequent dual editions came out in 1961 and 1969 and were both installed with recipes and smashing tips/helps, nonetheless we could see a beginnings of sacrificing peculiarity for convenience--especially in a 1969 edition, that has some horrible by-pass recipes that limit on parody--but this was still comparatively teenager in suit to a infancy of a recipes. If we have these books, value and keep them; you'll never see their likes again.
The stream 10th book looks good but, like a past several editions, a array of recipes has been drastically reduced. Gone are a many variations, that are generally missed in baked goods. It was smashing carrying recipes of many cakes that were sized for dual people or tiny families and carrying opposite blending methods to select from. Now approach too many recipes are of a "dump and stir" process instead of selecting methods that would protection a best results. Also left is a unequivocally friendly, assuring, conversational voice of yesteryear. Yes, there are recipes covering a wider operation of mixture and styles, though they are mostly stripped-down versions.
It's apparent that a folks during Betty Crocker now seem to consider that no one unequivocally cooks these days and can't be worried with correct credentials of dishes, that begs a doubt of because General Mills even bothers to tell new editions. The "Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook" is a improved gamble for those looking for an all-purpose, bland guide. It has a improved layout, a recipes and mixture are generally of a aloft quality, and there are some-more recipes and variations than Betty Crocker's had in some time. Even better, if we caring during all about a peculiarity of a food we eat and offer your family, we rarely suggest a cookbooks of Cooks' Illustrated/America's Test Kitchen. Their allied general-purpose cookbook is called "The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook." The recipes are tested and reworked--dozens of times, if necessary--to be a best their staff can make them and we get accurate directions and code recommendations to safeguard peculiarity results. It's a contrition that Betty Crocker has tarnished her repute for glorious recommendation and recipes, though there's even improved things out there now. Go for it!!
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