Good beginners cookbook
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The Good Stuff Cookbook by Helen Witty
Comments (2)I have Fancy Pantry rather than The good Stuff, so the recipes may be different. From Fancy Pantry, I love the ginger marmalade - although I have only made it when I can find the elusive stem ginger. I also make the blueberry and orange preserves and blueberry syrup - I have adapted this recipe for peach syrup also. My niece regularly makes and gives me pear honey and the peach jam with brown sugar and rum - and they are delicious. The best ketchup recipe I have found is in Witty's earlier book, Better Than Store Bought. Elaina...See MoreGood cookbook for beginners?
Comments (19)I have Bittman's "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian" and I would NOT recommend it to a beginning cook who doesn't know how to cook. It is overwhelming even to me, and I LIKE to cook and know how, sort of. It would be good for a beginning cook who knows how to cook and wants to become really proficient and expand their repertoire past the basics. There's two schools of thought I think on beginning cookbooks. One is the encyclopedic approach like "Joy" Good Housekeeping, Betty Crocker, etc. That's a cookbook for life and pretty much covers everything you'll want to know to cook for yourself, family and guests, in a general way. But I don't know how well they do to inspire someone to cook. For that, you need something with lots of pictures and written in a chatty style, IMHO. My mom has both Betty Crocker and the Good Housekeeping books and I like her older, Betty Crocker better since it has LOTS of photos and explanation pages. That's the one that taught me. Oddly though, the book that really got me cooking and inspired me to be a good cook was "The Alice's Restaurant Cookbook" by Alice May Brock. It was written in a very cheerleader style (albeit a hippy earth mother cheerleader) that really gave me confidence to cook the yummy basics and then improvise. Lots of photos, jokes, and cool things like a guide to spices, cuts of meat, how to doll up a box cake mix, etc., etc. Nothing in there is fancy but it is all downhome good and you really can find anything you want in there, at least she touches on it and gives you the courage to go out and do more. Not sure who is writing a book like that now. Frankly I think some bloggers do that kind of thing best nowdays....See MoreCookbook Giveway to a Good Home?
Comments (20)Oh WOW! Too cool for sure...I never win anything! Thanks Sue!! Sending you an email via gardenweb. Just found this on page 2, glad I checked, been out of pocket the last couple of days. Thanks again!!! David...See MoreCookbook Destash. Free to good home
Comments (8)If you don't have any other takers, I will take Julia Child The way to Cook...is it paper back or hard back? I think my grand daughter needs that... Let me know if I'm up and I'll email you my address.....and send the postage. Do you take pay pal....LOL! But seriously....it's an easy to send funds....forget what the trick is to avoid paying a fee...b ut there is one. Linda C...See MoreElmer J Fudd
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