Good Housekeeping Step by Step Cookbook or Cookies

Good Housekeeping Step-by-Step Cookbook: More Than 1,000 Recipes

Author: Good Housekeeping

"[A] well-photographed, tremendously useful book... includes information on just about everything a home cook needs."--Washington Post
"With more than 1,000 recipes and 1,800 color photographs [this book] is not be missed....fabulous."--Detroit Free Press
"Once you start cooking with this book, you'll wonder how you managed without it."--Adventures in Dining
It's all here: More than 1,000 time-tested recipes, 1,800 photos and the backing of America's most trusted authority on food: Good Housekeeping. The Good Housekeeping Step-by-Step Cookbook features hundreds of techniques, all invitingly illustrated. From stuffing a beef tenderloin to fluting a pie crust, this kitchen essential shows you precisely how to make flawless meals. Charts display the proper temperatures for cooking each type of meat to perfection. Individual sections discuss nutritional guidelines, foods for different types of diets, entertaining, and choosing the right wine. But it's the dishes that will truly entice, and virtually every food you'd want to eat is in here, from appetizers to desserts, from salads to fish. Try American favorites like chili meat loaf; Mediterranean dishes like couscous stuffed artichokes; Asian gourmet like Salmon Teriyaki; holiday feasts and delicious sweets-including baklava, biscotti, and brownies.

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Cookies!: Good Housekeeping Favorite Recipes

Author: Good Housekeeping

Simply the best cookie recipes ever—all triple-tested.
Thanks to Good Housekeeping, the cookie jar will never be empty again. With these simple and satisfying recipes, even new bakers will make perfect cookies the first and every time. All the cookies were developed in the famous Good Housekeeping kitchens. Some recipes came from the staff, and others from the magazine’s readers, but each one is triple-tested and tasty. All the ingredients of success are here: how to measure properly, select the right cookie sheets, time your recipes, and use specialized gadgets. Whip up some warm kitchen memories with irresistible Butterscotch Fingers, baked with pecans to accentuate the richness; giant Black-and-White Cookies; and holiday treats such as Christmas Rocks with candied fruit and Hamantaschen pastries for Purim.
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Publishers Weekly

Including recipes from readers and staffers, this collection runs the gamut from familiar Snickerdoodles and Coconut Macaroons to more unusual Sour-Cream Nut Rolls and McIntosh-Oatmeal Cookies. Though the book is aimed at bakers of all levels, advice such as "don't use coffee or tea cups, or tableware teaspoons and tablespoons for measuring" suggests it's best suited to newbies. Illustrated sidebars on how to line a pan with foil (often used in making brownies), produce a marbled effect with two different-colored batters, flatten stiff cookie dough and shape fortune cookies enhance the book, and for each recipe the editors give prep time, bake time, yield and nutritional information. Beginners will want to stick with truly undemanding bar cookies, such as Chocolate-Swirl Peanut Butter Blondies or Cherry-Cheesecake Triangles, or try instant-gratification drop cookies, like Chocolate-Chunk Cookies or Oatmeal Cookies. More experienced cookie-makers will find plenty of ideas in the section on the more challenging but lovely-to-look-at rolled cookies, where they'll find recipes for Linzer Cookies, Rugelach and other works of art. A later chapter focuses on pressed, molded and refrigerator cookies (e.g., Ladyfingers, Madeleines, Pignoli Cookies). The final section, on holiday cookies, is the book's weakest. Although the recipes sound alluring, they're unorganized and often don't seem to correspond to any specific holiday (e.g., it's unclear why Nut Crescents and Hazelnut Cookies are in this section, when the editors don't link them to a holiday). But that's a mere quibble; the rest of this book brims with homey suggestions for delicious desserts. (July) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

The latest books from the Good Housekeeping test kitchen present "triple-tested" recipes for all-time favorite cookies and other sweets. Cookies! includes many classics, from Scottish Shortbread to Date Bars, along with more innovative recipes, such as Chocolate Sambuca Cookies. The dessert book offers a somewhat more eclectic selection, from Cherry-Almond Clafouti to Roasted Pears with Marsala to Jeweled Fruit Galettes, as well as more traditional choices. Both books include dozens of helpful tips, and there are color photographs of many treats. These bargain-priced hardcovers are recommended for most baking collections. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.