The classic American kitchen reference, with everything you need to cook from scratch
The kitchen classic, updated
First published in 1950, the Betty Crocker Cookbook has taught generations of Americans to cook. The twelfth edition keeps the clear instructions and trusted basics while adding updated recipes, new photography and expanded chapters for today's home cooks, from everyday dinners and slow-cooker meals to breads, pies and holiday favorites. Complete nutrition information accompanies every recipe.
Who will enjoy it
New cooks setting up their first kitchen, families who want reliable everyday recipes and anyone who likes an all-in-one cooking reference.
What you will get
A comprehensive, beginner-friendly kitchen companion that covers almost everything, with clear steps, helpful photos and dependable recipes you will return to for years.
Betty Crocker Cookbook Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Nonfiction · Cookbook · Home cooking · Kitchen basics
Length
688 pages · ≈ 20 h
More about this book
Betty Crocker is not a real person but a friendly name and face created by the company that became General Mills, and the kitchen team behind her has tested recipes for home cooks for generations. The first Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book appeared in 1950 and became one of the bestselling cookbooks in American history. Its many editions have kept up with changing tastes while keeping the same clear, reliable approach.
The twelfth edition, subtitled Everything You Need to Know to Cook from Scratch, is organized like a reference book. Opening chapters cover equipment, ingredients, food safety and basic techniques, with photographs that show key steps. Then come chapters on breakfasts, appetizers, breads, salads, soups, meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, slow-cooker and grilling dishes, cookies, cakes and pies. Alongside classics such as pot roast, meatloaf and chocolate chip cookies are newer ideas like cauliflower steaks, smoked brisket, quinoa thumbprint cookies and homemade doughnuts. Every recipe lists complete nutrition information, and a guide introduces ingredients from global cuisines.
Practical, sturdy and comprehensive, the kind of book that ends up spattered and bookmarked. About 688 pages in the twelfth edition.
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