Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book With Test Kitchen Tips (Hardcover)

This is a great all around cook book.

It has easy to follow recipes.

This is one of those cookbooks every kitchen needs.

It does not matter what year a Better Homes and Garden cook book is, like the Betty Crocker cookbook.. this is the cookbook that new and experience cooks need in their kitchen.

Just a note: When they say to grease the bottom of the pan, they mean the inside of the bottom of the pan and not the underside. :-)

This cookbook has a great index so you can easily look up the recipe you need. Most recipes use items that are or should be found in most kitchens.

You will find recipes for appetizers, main dishes, deserts, baked goods, meats, veggies, canning instruction, freezing instructions, just about anything you need to know about what to do with that food in your kitchen.

These are all tried and tested recipes.

Remember with any recipe, fresh spices are stronger than older ones. You have to taste things to make sure they taste the way you want them to. Please remember not to taste items with uncooked foods in them. Safety first.

Cooking is about following the instructions, but also putting a bit of yourself in the recipe. If you like more cinnamon in your cinnamon raisin bread, then add it. If you do not like a certain food, omit it.

A note for those up to 50% of the American population that are allergic to white flour and either do or do not know it... You can substitute 1/2cup of corn starch for 1 cup of white flour. Add a teaspoon or so of Xanthum gum and double up on the eggs for most recipes. Oh and add a touch more sugar.

A note on nutrition: The heart knows what to do with butter... It does not know what to do with margarine. Watch your processed food intake for a healthier family.

Hotdogs and bologna put fat on a child faster than anything I have ever seen.

Diet Soda makes you crave carbs. Give it up for a couple of months and watch the weight come off. Oh you will find you crave the diet soda.. the body does crave drugs... By the way neuro surgeons did not want artificial sweeteners on the market. They are not good for the brain or body. Big business... The company that puts out the good press on artificial sweeteners makes them... go figure. Diet sodas are not good for the adult body and really do a number on our kids... Nutritionists say no more than 2 servings a day... not cans...servings.. ever wonder why?

Get back to basics.. Good home cooking.. This is the book to bring your family back to a healthier life style!


The cook book has the regular introduction with cooking terms, a section on buying and cooking meats.

If you need an all around good useful everyday cookbook that covers a wide verity of recipes.. buy it!

You cannot go wrong.

May God Bless!