Customer Reviews

Cooking Without Milk: Milk-Free and Lactose-Free Recipes

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I do not cook milk free at my home, but have relatives that cannot tolerate milk (of any kind) in their diet. This book has common sense information and ideas that are extremely helpful for creating meals without milk (even a Thanksgiving dinner). The format of the book is easy to use and sprinkled with ideas and tips. A good basic cookbook for anyone as the recipes can be adapted for use with milk also.

I felt so talked down to and I am far from a proffessional chef. Just cook for the kids and a regular working mom. So do yourself a favor:
1 Check out the glossary section alone -either in a book store or at the library BEFORE you buy.
If you can't do that here are just a few of my personal favorites that this author took the time to DEFINE in the glossary: OIL, FLOUR, OATS, BANANAS, WAX PAPER, MAYONNAISE- (no kidding)
2 Look up the book "The Milk-Free Kitchen : Living Well Without Dairy Products" AND BUY THAT INSTEAD!!

Don't make the mistake I did and buy Cooking without Milk sight unseen. Well, on second thought if you don't know what a can opener is our how to use one this may be the book for you.

Best page of the book is 254, the list of milk and dairy byproduct names to help you decipher the product labels.

Almost 100 pages are devoted to breads and desserts. So I guess if you can't have dairy, you can still get fat. Quite a few of the recipes have the "duh" factor...salads and things you hardly need a recipe for. Substituting mocha mix for regular milk in normal recipes..."duh".

What I would love to find, is a book that tells me how to make non-dairy versions of ubiquitous ingredients. Like a non-dairy substitute for a can of cream of mushroom soup.

This cook book is terrible and provides no new information or recipes. There is one recipe that is given for a Fruit Salad and then includes onions and other vegetables, clearly a typo. I would not suggest this book.

This book does not contain dairy free recipes. The female author simply uses regular recipes and when milk or butter is required, she simply writes "use non dairy milk substitute" or "use non dairy butter substitute". Well duh! I could have figured that out. She does not recommend any particular brands, she simply writes "read the label". Again, duh! I could have figured that out. So save your money find a good milk and butter non dairy substitute and READ THE LABELS. The recipes are bland and the author does not give a complete list of ingriedients to look out for/avoid when you are "reading the labels". This book was poorly written and is uninformative.

chris/ california

This is the BEST milk-free cookbook I have found anywhere!! At 5 weeks old my son was diagnosed with milk and soy allergies. We both went on a milk-free and soy-free diet. I tried many cookbooks but this one was the only one that included "normal" recipes I could use daily. The recipes are practical and delicious. Recipes for cream soups, gravies, biscuits, and other "taboo" items are given and they taste like "real" food. The author also includes advice, substitution ideas, website addresses, and lots of encouragement. I highly recommend it to anyone who needs to eliminate milk from their diets - I still use the book daily!