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Betty Crocker's Cooky Book (Facsimile Edition)
Here is the complete cooky book-more than 450 recipes, dozens of appetizing full-color photographs, and many how-to-do-it sketches. This treasury of cooky baking embraces all tastes-from the old-fashioned and traditional to the new and sophisticated. Plus a large section devoted entirely to holiday cookies. Fun to use. . .perfect to give.
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Spiral-bound, 160 pages
Published
July 19th 2002
by Betty Crocker
(first published 1974)
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I remember my mom making cookies from this book. This was her book and was published in 1963. I loved reading the recipes and seeing the marks she made next to the cookies she made.
There are recipes in here that I have never even seen before. This book is great for all levels of bakers. The beginning goes over some basic utensils, measuring and even some hints. I highly enjoyed seeing the variations to many of the recipes in the book, just by adding a different spice or adding nuts.
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There are recipes in here that I have never even seen before. This book is great for all levels of bakers. The beginning goes over some basic utensils, measuring and even some hints. I highly enjoyed seeing the variations to many of the recipes in the book, just by adding a different spice or adding nuts.
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I was disappointed in this book. I guess I expected a lot of vintage "cool" recipes, but it was very uninteresting and there weren't really that many cookie recipes that looked appealing. I am glad I checked this out from the library before buying it. Also, almost all the recipes call for shortening, which I am trying to avoid- I would rather use real butter. Guess I should look for a vintage cookbook that was released before shortening was. I do love the cover of the book.
I found this book at a flea market a few years ago. It is amazing. I love cook books from the 50s anyway, and I am a baker by trade, so this book was perfect. The pictures are wonderful, especially when they get the decor of the time in there with the cookies. Lots of forgotten gem recipes in here. If you like to bake cookies I highly recommend this book.
This is another of my cookbooks that's literally falling apart--I've had it since the early 60s. I've gotten it out every year during the holiday season and baked cookies for family, neighbors, friends, the mailman, etc. It's full of notations as to which Christmas I baked certain cookies--I think I've baked every cookie in the book.
This is the cookie book that started it all for me, and taught me the wrong way to spell "cooky." My copy cost $1.95, purchased for me by my mother when it first came out, and I've been making cookies from it ever since. It's still one of my favorite collections and contains some of my favorite - and most requested - recipes.
Betty Crocker was my first companion in cooking and I still have an old Betty Crocker Cookbook. I often return to it for a basic banana bread recipe when I tire of playing around with newer recipes. My favorite part of this cookbook was the last section highlighting the "The Best Cooky" of each decade from 1880-1960.
This is one of the best cookie cook books every. Three generations in my family have used the recipes in the book. Our favorites are Mary's Sugar cookies and the recipe for peanut butter cookies. This is not a fancy, photo coffee table book, but a down to earth book of great cookie recipes.
3.5 I have had this book since I was a kid it was passed down to me from my Mom. She often complains that 1/2 the recipes were not very good. I agree. We have notes and marks fixing them all over the place. I hope they have updated the recipes and they taste better in the new edition.
I was so glad to find this book had been reprinted a few years back, and immediately snatched up a copy. There is such a huge selection of cookies in this book! And they all are GOOD recipes! As with many other reviewers, my mom had this book, so I learned to bake from it.
This is THE cookie book, if you can't find a recipe you like in here, you don't like cookies. My mom used this book while we were growing up, I inherited it and when it was reprinted I bought one for myself and one to pass on to my daughter. It's that good.
It took me (many) years to locate a vintage copy of this outstanding recipe book -- the best of its kind, in my humble opinion. If you love to bake, or collect cookbooks, your collection is incomplete without this treasure. A must-have!
I remember going through this with my mom every year at Christmas time. Her copy is held together by tape and totally dog-eared. When this was rereleased I grabbed it. It is great for the holidays, but equally good all year around.
This is the best cookie book you could ever use!! My mom used it while we were growing up. The book was falling apart it had been used so much:) and when it was printed again, I bought some for my sisters, mom, and myself of course!
Like a lot of other readers I too grew up making these cookies with my Mom, we made so many of these recipes around Christmas time. I was so happy to receive a copy for Christmas one year. Fabulous collection of cookie recipes!!
I remember this book from my childhood. My mother may still have it. "If it isn't in the Cooky Book, the cookie doesn't exist"
Some great cookie recipes and the spiral does make it easier to keep open.
Some great cookie recipes and the spiral does make it easier to keep open.
Those cookies, or cookys as the book would have, that grandma made-they likely came from this book. With it's un-updated photos and sketches this book even feels like it came from a grandma's kitchen.
This was one of the cookbooks that I remember my mother using a lot. After she died I just had to have her copy. The chocolate crinkle cookies with powdered sugar are the best.
Picked this book up at a library sale for $0.25. It has a lot of simple cookie recipes that just taste like grandma made them. It also has a lot of suggestions of easy decorating for classic cookies.
The best cookie book ever. I have the original one that was my mother's. It's starting to lose pages, though :(
My mother and I refer back to this book time and time again. It contains some of the greats of cookie recipies.
Apr 07, 2010
Barbara
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my edition is old but still all the same cookies recipes. I love that it has pictures of the cookies.
THE BEST cookie book out there! I've traded in many others just to have this classic on my shelf. I collect cook books...but this is one that I just can't live without.
The best cookie book ever. I've been using it for holiday cookies for a long time.
Best cookie recipe book out there. Hands down. The pictures are entertaining, too.
My favorite cookie recipe book. So many happy memories with this book. :)
This is the book that started it all. I love bake and I own over 300 cookbooks!
My go-to cookie book. It's really alll you need. Try Mary's sugar cookies. Yum!
My favorite recipe, Applesauce Cookies, comes from this book!
The cookies I grew up with - wonderful - and pictures!
Nov 18, 2009
Theresa
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Everyone
Recommended to Theresa by:
My grandmother
Shelves:
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I inherited this book after my mother died. It belonged to my grandmother, and was one of the most used cookie books in her home. There are so many delicious recipes, but my favorite are the "Chocolate Crinkles". The book is now falling apart, but we use it faithfully, especially around the holidays. This book is a must for anyone that wants to bake mouthwatering cookies!
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