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WILEY PUBLISHING-Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book. An authentic reprint of the 1950 classic that began America's love of Betty Crocker cookbooks. This book is chocked full of tips; hints and advice. Great recipes for all time favorites that can be favorites today as well. Full color photography and tinted line drawings throughout bring back special memories for those who grew up with the original book. Make cooking fun again and see how everything old can be new again. Make some new memories! More than 1200 recipes; tips and need-to-know basics. Hardcover 5-Ring Binder: 449 pages. Imported.
First published in 1950,
Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book is now reprinted in all its old-fashioned glory. Betty immerses you in a time when women were homemakers, cakes had at least two layers, and salad was iceberg lettuce. You may hesitate to recreate what your mother or grandmother probably cooked--if so, consider that back then we ate simply, in the days before the word
foodie was invented. Many of the recipes suit today's harried lifestyle, as you see in Six Layer Dinner, combining eight cups of vegetables with a pound of ground meat, and Dainty Tea Brownies topped with colorful chopped pistachios. Hundreds of black-and-white photos, animated drawings, and quaint color spreads of prepared dishes aid you in using the recipes. Beginners learn how to measure ingredients, choose the best economical cuts of meat, and cut up round and sheet cakes for serving. There is even a section on how to set the table. This loose-leaf book contains enough recipes to fill a 12-page, double-column index. Best of all, perhaps, is the "Shortcut" section, where useful tips include cleaning a grater of cheese residue by rubbing it with a piece of stale bread. These are interspersed with 15 ways to recuperate from overwork. One suggestion is to lie down on the kitchen floor on your back and relax for three to five minutes. Still a good idea, though few people have a kitchen large enough to try this.
--Dana Jacobi
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