Betty Crocker's Cooky Book
by Betty Crocker Editors, Eric Mulvany
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Book Reviews of Betty Crocker's Cooky Book
Book Review: The Best Cookie Book Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, "cooky" isn't the correct spelling, but who cares? Once you delve into the delightfully colorful pages of this classic cookbook, you'll be lost in its delicious charms. I remember as a child simply looking through it, mesmerized by cookies of all shapes, sizes and hues. Rolled cookies, drop cookies, filled, cinnamon, sugar, Christmas--they're all here.
The recipes are easy to follow and include interesting tidbits regarding their history. For cookie neophytes, a comprehensive section in the beginning of the book details kitchen utensils and useful baking and storage tips. Section headers explain the finer points of drop cookies, pressed cookies and other techniques. This is particularly useful information since the book itself is so vintage. Who uses a cookie press anymore? If you want to, there are plenty of ways to do so here.
This book would make a great gift for anyone who likes to bake cookies. It's useful and a fun read to boot. So curl up with a chocolate crinkle and a glass of milk and page through it, dreaming of the delicious treats to come.
Book Review: So excited to find this!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
We did not have this book, but we did enjoy many of the cookies from my mom's Betty Crocker(white and red gingham) cookbook she got on her anniversary in 1969. It included many of the favorites we made that I see here. I got a newer version of the gingham cookbook when I first got married in 1996, but many favorites were missing like Chinese Almond cookies(our first Christmas cookie baked each season!). Maybe it's because lately people just don't have the time or inclination to share this wonderful holiday tradition of cookie baking from scratch--it was certainly a much thinner section than my mothers edition(also covered in butter spots, flour, and falling out of the book;-) I am so excited to find this and expect it will be a more thourough book full of those favorite Christmas recipes. I am buying two(one for me now and one for my daughter when she is a little older). What an exciting tradition. By reading these reviews, I hope whoever printed this understands what a wonderful service they did to our beloved holiday traditions and hearts. Bake on galsBook Review: Best All-around Cookie Book
Summary: 5 Stars
I grew up on the cookies my Mom made from this book. They are marvelous! When I was a teen, I got my own copy in paperback, for $3.95. 30 years later, I'm looking forward to getting a spiral bound book since mine is falling apart. Three all-time favorites are Plantation Date Bars, Butterscotch Brownies, and Raisin-filled Cookies. There are so many very good recipes, especially ones with chocolate. And often, there are details on the origin and lore of a particular type of cookie. I'm not put off by the use of shortening, as is called for (and commented on by another reviewer). Using shortening does in fact serve a purpose without being a flavorful component, and is therefor not a shortcoming of the cookie collection (in my grandmother's day, she used lard). But if one decides to substitute, there's always butter-flavored Crisco, or butter and oil. But for the most part, I ask why? Cookies are delicacies not a staple, not diet food. Live a little and have fun making yummy cookies from a wonderful-to-look-at book!Book Review: A Blast from the Past!
Summary: 5 Stars
I nearly fell over when I spied this book on the shelf at the local bookstore. What a wave of fragrant christmas cookie dough memories! My mother has the original 1963 book. Its pages are marked with baking stains and a green felt tip marker that indicates favorite recipes with "good" and "great". As children, my siblings and i would gather around this book, much like the Sears Christmas Wishbook, and choose the cookies we would help my mother bake that year. We also daydreamed about how this cookie and that bar would taste... and who could forget the sight of that gingerbread house with its gumdrop decorations and gobs of frosting. This year, I am ordering four copies of this book [as gifts from my mother] to us four kids who were swept away each of our childhood years by its spell and the magical aroma of an oven full of holiday treats.Book Review: Such Sweet Memories
Summary: 5 Stars
Like others who were just as excited as I was to see this book on the shelf. My original copy was given to me by my Aunt Virginia when I was 10 years old.(Back in 1963)As a child I drooled over the pictures and begged my mother to bake with me untill I was old enough to bake on my own. I wore out my first copy and was lucky enough to find a reprint in 1974, which I have been using up till now. My own girls were raised with that edition, they too always loved the pictures and would choose which ones they wanted to try. Many pages are loose and the cover is half off. While Christmas shopping I spotted the most recent reprint and was filled with fabulous memories. I asked for one for Christmas and there it was under the tree for me, just like almost 40 years ago. Today I'm ordering copies for my daughters and my neices.