Betty Crocker's Cooky Book by Eric Mulvany

Betty Crocker's Cooky Book Reviews

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  Sarah

  It's a classic for a reason! Loved reading my mom's 1963 spiral-bound edition, and now I have some new baking ideas (or revived baking ideas from my childhood).
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  Mayda

  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.
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  Monica

  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.
  The best part of the book for me was the section called Betty Crocker's Best Cookies. My version has the best cooky of certain 10 year or 5 year periods starting at 1880. I enjoyed reading the blurb about the cookie and the historical highlights of events that happened during those periods.
  So if you need a new cookie recipe or just want to find an old favorite then check out Betty Crocker's Cooky Book!!
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  Katt Hansen

  This book was a wedding gift from my aunt, given to my mother back in 1962. Over the years it's been used time and again, for everything from Christmas cookies, to finding that perfect thing to take to the potluck or to have when guests are over. I've never found a cookie in this book that wasn't delicious and just perfect the way it was.
  
  I wish I could find another copy. Both covers finally fell off this past year and I feel dreadfully guilty at the loss, as this was my mother's book and never should have been treated so roughly. The kids pretty much wore it out with their own experimentations in baking. Of course I'd keep my own copy, because of the history involved. I just hate using that one anymore.
  
  If you can find this book, grab it. It's amazingly wonderful and raises the question - why is it that cookbooks are not all spiral-bound like this one?
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  Pam

  My sister gave me this cookbook when I was first married, and it has been used faithfully through the years. Butterscotch brownies, chocolate crinkles, snickerdoodles, candy canes...so many warm memories.
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  Sue

  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.
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  bosicbyi

  My son asked to make cookies with me. He said very specifically that he wanted to make Christmas cookies. In my cookie world that could mean quite a few different cookies so I told him to go through Cooky Book and decide what he wanted.
  
  He said “Cookies we can decorate!” turned a few pages of the book and pointed to a classic picture of sugar cookies from the 1970’s. I have a special place in my heart for old cookbooks. They remind me of my cherished cookie baking days with my beautiful mother.
  
  My son found the recipe for these cookies, which just so happened to be called “Merry Christmas Cookies”. Being the seasoned cookie baker that I am I said “Come on, lets get started! We are going to need to chill the dough.”
  
  We had the best one on one time I could ever ask for. I gave him all of my tips and tricks when it comes to cookie baking. Including my favorite..”Ok so lets roll the dough out first before refrigerating.” and the utmost important “When you make cookies with mom, you get to lick the icing off the whisk” That was always my favorite and we were more daring back in the early 80’s. It was cookie dough licking. Darn you Salmonella!
  
  Everything stopped. I made cookie dough with my son. Everything else that needed to get done, could wait. It’s these moments that are special. Moments like these that I hope he remembers. Just like my moments with my mother.
  
  My son must have my cookie baking genes, because these just so happened to be the best tasting and prettiest sugar cookies I’ve ever had the pleasure to help bake.
  
  
  
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  Talea

  This book has become our hands down go to book for cookies in this house. My first copy was the first book the kids reached for when it was their turn to pick a recipe. It was getting close to any kind of holiday, especially around Christmas time. I often found them just flipping through the pages just looking at the pictures to pass the time. Needless to say, when that cherished gift from my mother in law finally died I was left without mercy until I purchased another one. We once again have a copy in pride of place amongst my cookbooks.
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  Nicola

  Per Romi:
  The Sugar Cookie was pretty good but I would prefer the book to have more photos. The descriptions were short. I plan to try the Snickerdoodle recipe next.
  
  Nicola:
  This was the book my mom used every holiday season dating back to the 70s. It has all the classics, thumbprint, peanut butter, chocolate crinkles and shortbread. The drawings and photos are quite dated as the first edition is 1963. But the recipes are solid and can be simple to follow with children. The back of the cookbook has a best of the decades spanning from 1880 to 1960 with historical highlights.
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  LAMONT D

  AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE WITH LOTS OF COLORFUL PICTURES AND PLENTY OF TIME-TESTED RECIPES FOR ALL KINDS OF COOKIES. I ESPECIALLY LIKE THE COMPLETE FULL PAGE INSTRUCTIONS ON CONTRUCTING A COOKIE HOUSE WITH A FULL PAGE PICTURE ON THE CORRESPONDING PAGE. FILLED WITH INSTRUCTIONS AND OPTIONS FOR ICING, FILLING AND VARIATIONS YOU COULD SPEND A DECADE TRYING OUT THE VARIOUS KINDS (INCLUDING INTERNATIONALLY INSPRIED COOKIES). A BONUS FEATURE IN THE BACK IS A NOSTALGIC PEEK AT THE PACE-SETTING COOKIES OF NINE DECADES GOING BACK TO THE 1880'S.
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  LemontreeLime

  You have to give this old tymer it’s due. One of my family’s treasured recipes came from it, had no idea either. A fun blast from a past before food allergies. And seriously?? Kids cereal topped brownies?? I shall ponder this....
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  Amie Wills

  What’s not to love? If you grew up in a home where someone baked, the nostalgia factor will be high on this cookbook.
  
  Could I have found the dozen+ recipes I tagged online? Probably. But if you love food history (or cookies!!!!) like I do, you wouldn’t get the same experience Pinning these.
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  Jay

  A classic. Your mother or grandmother probably had this book in her kitchen.
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  Allison Delestowicz

  Classic cookbook I grew up with. So many good cookies and treats to make. Highly recommend to anyone!
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  Daelith

  Best cookie cookbook ever! Had this 1st edition version in my family since I was a kid.
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  Reynolpa

  The book is full of cookie recipes. There is nothing more to be said but Yum!
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  Andrea

  One of my favorite cookie books to look at growing up
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  Jill McGill

  One of my favorite "go to" cookbooks for cookie recipes!
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  Carmen

  This is my All-Time fave cookie book! I grew up with this book. I don't know how many dozens of cookies were created by my Mom and I over the years, all from this book. In fact, we used it so much, her copy is literally in pieces and it's being held together by rubber bands!! Mom even wanted to GASP! get rid of her copy! NO WAY that's happening. I don't care if there's only the cover and one page left in it, I'll always keep that copy. Really should get Mom a new one so it doesn't become "that" book though. :)
  
  I have other cookie books, but this is the one I always seem to use. It's definitely timeless and trust me, it's the only cookie book you'll ever need! :D
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  Susan Howson

  My mom has been cooking from the original edition of this book for, like, one billion years, and when I was a kid my friends would come over to my house and go directly to the cookie jar. That sounds like an oversentimentalized memory, but it's completely true. I sort of hate making cookies for some inexplicable reason, but I do own this book and if I had to make cookies because one of you guys wheedled me into it, I would go to it immediately.
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  Lula

  My mom has the original 1963 copy of this cookbook, and I grew up cooking from it. It wouldn't be Christmas without out the spritz and pinwheels and other classic recipes. When I moved out we had an ongoing squabble about who would get to keep the book, and she finally had a color copy made for me and bound. It is awesome that the original came back in print just the way it was. Every recipe is a classic.
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  Eileen

  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.
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  Toby

  One of my favorite cookbooks. I remember reading this like a book when I was a kid, partly because of the awesome pictures of each recipe and the composed pictures of each section. Nowadays, the pictures are quaintly retro and therefore even cooler than they were when new! But there are quite a lot of good recipes as well, real classics like gingersnaps and crinkles. Some of the most fun are the ones made with crazy 60s and 70s cereals, some of which you can still find.
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  DumDum

  My sister gave me this book one Christmas shortly after my mother died. We had this when we were growing up. I could spend hours just looking at the pictures...most of the recipes are fairly ordinary and some are out dated but I don't care...it's the best. I've always wanted to build the ginger bread house that Betty has given the plans for.....ah the memories....
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  Melissa B.

  My mom has the original 1960's edition of this cook book and I grew up eating cookies from it. I have yet to taste a bad one. My favorites are Ethel's Sugar Cookies (the best I've ever had) and Molasses Crinkles. They are Christmas standards in my family. They have started printing it again, and now I have a copy for my own family.
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  Heather

  I grew up making cookies with my mother and my grannie from this book...my mother still has her original copy, but I found it reproduced and bought it myself. I even found the exact same cookie jar I had growing up in an antique store, and both are proudly displayed in my kitchen. Lots of great classic cookie recipes from this cookbook...I recommend the chocolate crinkles especially!