Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book (Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen)

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Summary: A wonderful cookbook for beginners!
Review: I teach foods and nutrition to high school students. They use this cookbook because it is easy to read and use. Especially helpful are the detailed instructions and information regarding preparation time, and cook time. It is a delightful addition to our classes!

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Summary: This cookbook is a must for young people.
Review: My mother gave me this cookbook in 1966, when I left my home in S.C. and moved to Atlanta. I still have this cookbook, and use it all the time! I now have three children of my own, and as each child leaves home and sets up their own apartment I give them this "Bible" of the cookbook world.

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Summary: The One Cookbook You'd Ever Need
Review: Better Homes and Gardens is practical. It is written for the person who has a small kitchen, and who doesn't have fancy kitchen equipment, but who wants to whip up American classics at home. It is a basic cookbook, providing me the foundation from which my imgination can take off to more inventive recipes. The 3 ring binder edition is a bonus: no more trying to keep the book open with flour-covered hands, no more oil stains on its pages. This book spans generations. My mom loves it, and I use it every week (and I'm only a college student!!).

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Summary: A Bible for the American Cook
Review: When I was married, my mother insisted I could not survive without this book. Little did I know then, but she was absolutely right! For someone who was skilled only at burning food in the kitchen two years ago, I can now make satisfying meals for my entire family. The cookbook not only offers receipes, but great information about time preparation, how to properly prepare and store foods, and how to make good decisions about substitutions. There are lots of pictures to help cooks know what is the difference between exotic fruits and the various pastas, not to mention the difference between stiffly beaten eggs and lightly beaten eggs. Most importantly, the recipes are very easy to prepare and are very tasty.

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Summary: A wonderful compilation a recipes from biscotii to ribs.
Review: I found this cook book easy to comprehend and to use! The variety of recipes is amazing. I was to delighted to find how to make dishes like: taffy, cinnamon rolls, creole, mini pepperoni calazones, banana bread,truffles,crepes,salsa,rigatoni,mayonnaise...and many other recipes! This is the only cookbook that you will ever need.

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Summary: AN OLD-TIME FAVOURITE!
Review: This book would make a perfect gift for someone who is not yet feeling quite "at home in the kitchen." It is a basic, straight-forward, simple to understand cookbook with lots of facts on planning menus and proper nutrition. We have often heard the saying of an inexperienced person in the kitchen, "He or she would not know how to boil water!" Well, this book will tell you how to do such simple things as boil an egg and have it come out the way you want it - softboiled or hardboiled. There is a section dealing with various cuts of meats that will help the reader to understand which ones make great stews and pot roasts, and which ones provide the more tender, lean oven roasts. If you have a sweet tooth, you will learn everything from how to make a pie crust (easier said than done the first time around) for that scrumptous apple pie, to how to make some of your favourite candies. This book comes highly recommended and is one you will likely keep in your kitchen even after you have gathered experience and progressed to more complex, detailed recipes.

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Summary: Not as good as it gets
Review: A good basic cookbook. Not a lot of involved marth-esqe recipes but specializes in many good old fashioned delights. Need to have a page holder as the book doesn't work well open on a counter. Desserts are especially well done and represented.

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Summary: Great cookbook, one small annoyance
Review: I received this cookbook as a wedding gift and it has been a daily fixture in meal preparation. So many different recipes, there is something for every family. The one thing that annoys me about the cookbook, is also the thing I love. The book lays flat with it's 3-ring binder. Very convenient! Yet the pages are not reinforced so the wear on the pages will eventually tear the holes. I now have many loose pages in my cookbook. Would love to see the next edition have some kind of reinforcement along the hole punched edge.
Another big plus I've discovered is the page of metric conversions. My husband and I are currently stationed in Europe and it's great to be able to just flip to another section when I'm trying to use my European stove or use something packaged in grams but measured in ounces in the recipe. For some reason my husband doesn't like me to drag the laptop into the kitchen to look up conversion charts while I'm cooking. :)
I would recommend this cookbook to everyone. It's great for beginners and experienced cooks alike.

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Summary: What a GREAT Cookbook
Review: I originally purchased this book for my mom but when my boyfriend saw the book he LOVED it too! So I had to go and purchase another one so they both could have the cookbook at there dispose all the time.

It has GREAT recipes - We've made SO much from this cookbook.
The recipes are not difficult to prepare and make. I would HIGHLY recommend it to anyone.


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Summary: Perfect gift for anyone
Review: I received this cookbook when I first moved out on my own. My older sister wanted to make sure I wouldn't starve. It's super for starter cause it gives you detailed instructions and photos for many recipes. It explains what the difference cuts of meat are and has a great veggie index telling how to prepare and how long to cook each veggies. It's a great resource I use quite often. Now that I am a more experienced cook, I used many of the recipes as starters and build on them.

Now my younger sister is ready to move out on her own so she will receive a copy from me.