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Better Homes & Gardens Junior Cook Book for the Hostess & Host of Tomorrow

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Recipes that start simple like Tutti Frutti Ice Sparkle and progress to recipes that are a little more challenging, like Minute Steak and Scrambled Eggs.

78 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1955

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Better Homes and Gardens

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Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. Better Homes and Gardens focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by the Meredith Corporation. It was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who had previously been the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson.

Better Homes and Gardens is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.

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93 reviews4 followers
March 16, 2009
This is a fun cookbook to have in the house. The kids love that they hve their own, and they love the way it is set up. It is nice to have recipes that they not only love the way they taste, but that they get to help make it as well. A big hit at our house.
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1,591 reviews14 followers
May 26, 2015
What a great way to introduce a child to the pleasures of cooking.
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6,002 reviews219 followers
December 20, 2018
Better Homes & Gardens New Junior Cook Book, 128 pages. COOK BOOK. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. $18. 9781118146064

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL, MS - OPTIONAL.

AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE

This cook book is full of illustrations and divided into five sections: superpower breakfasts, feel-the-beat lunches, sportin’-around suppers, fast-fueling snacks, and make-believe desserts. Before the recipes there is a lengthy section on safety, tips, terms, and techniques. Each recipe in this spiral bound book gets a two page spread and includes the recipe, illustrations, photographs of the food, and cooking tips.

This book is very welcoming with bright illustrations, but the photographs of the food aren’t very appealing. My kids weren’t interested in very many recipes because there is a lot of mixing of different foods. For example, the mac and cheese recipe has broccoli in it and the meatloaf muffins have potatoes on them. The recipes have so many vegetables in them that it seems tailored more to adults who are cooking for kids, not to kids trying to get excited about cooking. The recipes themselves aren’t very complicated, but several tasks are grouped together so there are fewer steps, making it a bit hard to follow.

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17 reviews
June 7, 2017
This is a cookbook for kids who need the "cartoonish" vibe in order to maintain their interest. This book uses a lot of "convenience" products in order to create the recipes, and for my family we use primarily from-scratch items. It does serve the purpose of getting children interested in cooking and has ideas for rounding out the meal with sides and desserts which is a nice feature.
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April 10, 2021
This was given to me by co-workers as a joke many years ago after I complained about being assigned Jell-o to bring to a potluck because I didn't want to have to cook. They apparently didn't consider making Jell-o to be "cooking" but as it involved the kitchen, measuring cups and large bowls, I certainly did.
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December 5, 2023
So hard to read. I know I am old but this is too colorful and cartoonish. The"Know the Tools" ws good. I was hoping for some easy new ideas.
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November 27, 2014
Looking through this book, I realized why folks were skinny in the 50s: food was mostly unappetizing crap.

Take this suggestion from the "Ideas for making more kinds of candies and ready-in-a-hurry cookies" page:"Eat-right-away Cookies...Mix 2 tablespoons honey with 1/2 cup coconut. Spread on 12 salted crackers. Put on a cooky sheet and bake in a 375 [degree] oven for about 7 minutes."

This coconut and honey concoction spread onto saltines sounds like something that might be whipped up late at night in a dorm room by someone with an eating disorder who's spent all the spending money, not like something that should be in a cookbook.

Other winning dishes include "Super soup" (a mixture of 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup, 1 can condensed vegetable-beef soup, 1 can milk, and 1 can water) and "Magic white-sauce supper" (can you say "shit on a shingle"?).

NOTE: My copy of this book comes from the FreeCycle Windfall and has no ISBN (that I could find). Mine is a revised edition from 1963, first published in 1955.
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1,469 reviews
July 6, 2009
My kids are cooking dinner this summer and this is the first cook book that we are using. We went through it and chose 9 recipes that looked and sounded good. So far they are. When we finish with this book, we will chose another.

I do happen to own this one, but have decided that I won't buy any more. Kids cookbooks just aren't justifiable price wise or storage space wise in my opinion. We will check out the rest from the library. (And keep them far from the cooking area.)
24 reviews
January 18, 2010
A gift from my Grandmother Johnson. I learned a lot from this book and even then...realized that there was a bit too much sweet stuff in the book. It was fun though with things for kids...and brilliant pictures and directions. My favourite was cottage cheese with a pinapple ring and a banana sticking out of the centre. I made family dinner of tuna and pea casserole with cheese instead of potato chips on top... I have given the book to my grandaughter Kimberly Keogh of Sydney, NSW
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September 8, 2007
I had a version of this as a kid. It has some very odd recipes, but some good ones as well. The homemade eggnog, while it is not at all the holiday treat you would expect, is a great high protein breakfast. And by "great" I mean that it is probably an acquired taste.
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April 4, 2008
This is an awesome cookbook--it was my first (I got it when I was three years old). The recipes, which cover everything from appetizers to desserts, are simple and fun, and not always incredible, but definitely satisfying. I think the most-used recipe in this book has been snickerdoodles.
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May 28, 2008
Probably the best of the cookbooks I chose to channel my daughter's current interest in cooking. A good variety of recipes, including new things and familiar dishes. Enough there for beginners of a young age.
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83 reviews1 follower
May 28, 2007
I used it in early marriage years (it was a joke gift from friends), and now my kids use sometimes!
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November 20, 2008
I always think that it is fun to cook in the classroom and most students really enjoy this. This is a great book to use to teach children measurements and instructions.
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125 reviews
February 27, 2010
We've made a few things from here and they are simple, fun ways to get the boys involved with cooking. And my boys love the pictures and crack up with the names of the dishes.
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3 reviews4 followers
December 30, 2010
Easy starter recipes for kids to enjoy! We've tried a few here and my daughter enjoys having this cookbook in her collection.
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318 reviews9 followers
May 8, 2011
This was the first cookbook my mom got me. LOVED IT!!!!
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July 27, 2012
The recipes are good but the obnoxious full-page illustrations are seizure-inducing.
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July 23, 2014
This is a great cookbook for kids.
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