Better Homes and Gardens Heritage Cook Book

By Better Homes and Gardens

Large Heavy Magazine Size Padded Hardcover without dustjacket as issued. 400 pages. 705 Recipes from our Rich American History including Colonial, Ethnic, and Modern Favorites. Color and Black amd... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0696007606
• ISBN13: 9780696007606
• Release Date: September 1975
• Publisher: Meredith Corporation
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 4.28 lbs.

Customer Reviews

best teaching tool I have

My mother got this book new in '75 or '76. She used it all through my teen years. When I left home, I permanently "borrowed" it, with her permission. I have cooked from it for years and many of my favorite recipes are in it. I find it highly useful for teaching my homeschooled four-year-old topics ranging from healthy eating to history to other cultures. Even though old recipes aren't exactly diet food, they are usually far healthier than the average chicken nugget or big mac. She has learned a wide range of favorite foods from this book. It is also very easy to tie these recipes into reading Laura Ingalls Wilder, or other historic kids novels. Read Farmer Boy and make Boston Baked Beans and Rye 'n Injun Bread. Read about George Washington and cook colonial English foods. Read Yonnie Wondernose and cook Chicken Stolzfus. Watch An American Tail and make borscht. Read Breaker Boy and make Cornish Pasties. There is a wealth of good stuff in here.

Better Homes and Gardens Heritage Cook Book

If there were 50 stars it couldn't express enough how valuable this book is! We were given a copy when it first came out and it has been used to the point of falling apart. It is a great book with lots of educational stories in it as well as hundreds of recipes. It covers history quite well and gives detail of how many recipes came about. Many great and wonderful recipes and helpful hints for cooking lie between the pages of this huge book! I am grateful it is available! I was told it was no longer in print and could not be purchased!

A Fun and Interesting Cook Book!

I purchased this book in the '70's when it was the text book for a college course I took. I have used it over the years not just for the recipes but for the fascinating stories throughout the book as well. If you'd like to know more about traditions and methods of cooking in America over the years, this is a terrific book to own!