Betty Crocker Lost Recipes: Beloved Vintage Recipes for Today's Kitchen

Nastalgia and favorite past recipes galore! Love this cookbook.

Great recipes, but wife still can’t cook. Betty Crocker sends her hate mail.

Love the book and the wonderful recipies....brings back memories of bygone years.

Good quality older recipes for my daughter in law.

An excellent collection of comfy recipes with Flair.I will enjoy using this book, honoring it’s history.

I purchased this as a gift. I might have also copied a few recipes. It has a lot of good recipes and I would recommend it.

I pre-ordered this book several months ago thinking it would truly be a lost collection of Betty Crocker recipes compiled into one book.Unfortunately, that is not the case.Some of the recipes are not even vintage and the ones that are have already been published in other Betty Crocker books over the years, mainly those in the Desserts chapter—including:Starlight Yellow CakeVelvet Crumb CakeGingerbreadJelly RollLemon Chiffon CakeCream PuffsMolasses CrinklesHermitsBanana Cream PieIf you have any of the above recipes, you'll probably want to skip buying this book. It really is more of a retrospective look back at Betty Crocker with previously published recipes thrown in. Why call the book Lost Recipes if the recipes in it are not lost?Other things that irked me when I flipped through the book:The Appetizers & Snacks chapter features one cocktail recipe (Manhattan Cocktails), but no others—except for a few non-alcoholic beverages (mostly Punches).Chapter 3 is called Breads and Coffee Cakes, yet only one coffee cake—Cherry Swirl Coffee Cake—is included in the chapter (and it calls for Bisquick and canned cherry pie filling). The remaining recipes in the chapter fall under the Quick Bread or Yeast Bread category. No Streusel, Crumb, or Sour Cream coffee cakes are included in the chapter.Maybe I took the title a little too seriously, but it definitely wasn't what I expected. I did find two recipes in the Main Dishes chapter (Stuffed Peppers, Meat Loaf) that I'd probably try.If you're on the fence about whether you should buy this book or not, my advice would be to preview it before you do.

I am absolutely in love with this book. The full-color illustrations are set on foxed and yellowed looking pages for vintage charm. Original homemaking tips from Betty Crocker are included at the beginning. Each recipe has a bit of food history included. But best of all, these are many of the recipes my mother made. And because she had them committed to memory, and has never wanted to sit down and write them out, they really were lost to me. Until I got this cookbook. And there they are! Beef stew, pot roast, Waldorf salad, yellow cake... just like my mom used to make. I couldn't be happier!