DVO Cook'n With Betty Crocker

by DVO Enterprises

Product Features

• Over 1100 delicious Betty Crocker recipes, with hundreds of full-color photos
• Easy-to-use interface ; add your own recipes; search by ingredients or keywords
• Create weekly menus and shopping lists automatically from menus
• How-to instructional cooking video clips
• Download recipes and shopping lists to any Palm-based handheld

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000C7GES
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 25, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,320 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #9 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Cooking & Health
  • #85 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Hobbies

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The original "Big Red" Betty Crocker Cookbook, 9th edition, is available for the first time on CD in Cook'n with Betty Crocker! For 50 years, Betty Crocker has reigned supreme in America's kitchens, her trusted advice and easy-to-follow recipes helping cooks of all levels become confident in the kitchen. Millions of cooks turn to "The Big Red Cookbook" for accessible, reliable, foolproof recipes.

Cook'n with Betty Crocker includes the latest Betty Crocker Cookbook (9th edition) and Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cookbook. The Cook'n program helps users collect and keep track of recipes from any source, making it easy to find just the recipe they need without thumbing through countless cookbooks or piles of recipe cards.

Recipes in Cook'n can be printed, downloaded to a Palm-based handheld, or emailed to friends with the click of a button. Cook'n will automatically adjust recipes for larger or smaller servings, and perform a nutritional analysis of the recipes. In addition, users can type in the ingredients they have on hand, and Cook'n will find all the recipes that use those ingredients.

Features:

• Over 1100 delicious Betty Crocker recipes, with hundreds of full-color photos
• Includes bonus Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cookbook recipes ($20 value) FREE
• Easy-to-use interface for browsing recipes and photos
• How-to instructional cooking video clips
• Search recipes by ingredients or keywords
• Add your own recipes (no limit)
• Perform nutritional analysis of any recipe (calories, fat, sugar, cholesterol, etc)
• Create weekly menus and shopping lists automatically from menus
• Automatically adjust recipe serving sizes
• Email recipes to friends and family
• Download recipes and shopping lists to any Palm-based handheld

Product Description

Planning mealtime has never been easier with Cook'nwith Betty CrockerProduct InformationWith over 50 years of cooking and baking success Betty Crocker's Cookbook hasearned the reputation of being the most trusted cookbook in the kitchen.Millions turn to the Betty Crocker Cookbook for accessible reliable foolproofrecipes. Updated with today's lifestyle needs in mind it has nearly 1000delicious recipes-from weeknight dinners in a flash to festive holiday feasts.Betty Crocker has collected all the best recipes in one easy reference-findfresh ideas as well as all your tried and true favorites. From breakfast todinner from homey favorites to scrumptious new dishes cooking just doesn't getany better than this!  Cook'n with Betty Crocker includes all the recipesfrom Betty Crocker's Cookbook 9th edition PLUS a bonus set of recipes fromBetty Crocker's Bisquick Cookbook.Browse hundreds of full color mouth-watering food photos and learn valuablepreparation and cooking techniques with helpful video clips. Planning mealtimehas never been easier! Whether you're a novice cook or a pro with Cook'n withBetty Crocker you'll be cooking with ease and confidence.Includes Betty Crocker’s Cookbook (The Big Red Cookbook) Betty Crocker’s Bisquick CookbookProduct Overview Betty Crocker’s Cookbook (The Big Red Cookbook)With over 50 years in print Betty Crocker's Cookbook has earned thereputation of being the most trusted cookbook in the kitchen.  Millions ofcooks turn to "The Big Red Cookbook" for accessible reliablefoolproof recipes.  In this edition updated with today's lifestyle needsin mind you will find nearly 1000 delicious recipes.  Betty Crocker has collected all the best recipes in one easy reference where you can find freshideas as well as all your tried and true favorites..  There are friendlyeasy-to-understand explanations of cooking techniques food te

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a good program if you want to add your own recipes, January 13, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: DVO Cook'n With Betty Crocker (CD-ROM)

I was very disappointed when I tried to add my own recipes -- the only reason I bought the software. If you do not add chapters in alphabetical order, you cannot alphabetize later. The "enter" key does not advance to the next box when adding ingredients, you must use the arrow keys which is time consuming and annoying. I was unable to abbreviate words like tablespoon, teaspoon or pound. I purchased this software to replace 5 year old software -- think I'll go back to the old stuff, it's much better suited to my needs.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great product from a great company., January 31, 2004

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Mary A. (Spokane, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DVO Cook'n With Betty Crocker (CD-ROM)

I've been very pleased with my Cook'n software so far. Browsing recipes is quick, and I especially like the search feature where you type in ingredients and it finds all the matching recipes. I also like looking through the pictures of the Betty Crocker recipes. It's helpful to see how a dish will look before making it. The menus and shopping list features are fun because it will tell you what you need to buy, although the pricing information doesn't seem quite accurate. I was also delighted to find that there are additional recipe sets that are available from the company for download or on CD. They have lots of cooking related stuff, and are very friendly and helpful, based on the response to some questions I emailed to them.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice program, easy too, January 26, 2004

By 

T. Bateman (Detroit, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DVO Cook'n With Betty Crocker (CD-ROM)

I'm not a computer person, but I received this from my husband for Christmas and I really like it. The Betty Crocker recipes are nice (pictures too), and I'm also using it to keep my own recipes on the computer.

The program is nice and straightforward, and the recipes are organized into cookbooks and chapters. Adding recipes is easy because it will fill in the ingredients as you type, so it goes fast. I had a few questions at first, but their tech support was great (I spoke to a real person!) I also like the printing options, although they need to add a print preview feature.

Once I learned the basics, I was surprised at how much flexibility there is. You can add ingredients, do shopping lists, menus, and even plan out 6-months or more. Overall, I recommend it especially if you have tons of recipe cards and scraps of paper all over the place!