The Old Farmer's Almanac Everyday Cookbook [Hardcover]

Old Farmer's Almanac (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 20, 2008

This comprehensive cookbook includes more than 400 tested and proven recipes. Each chapter offers a variety of dishes culled from the Almanac's vast collection, including recipe contest winners.

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Yankee Publishing Inc. is the contributor for Old Farmer's Almanac.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: OFA; 1 edition (August 20, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571984631
• ISBN-13: 978-1571984630
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #474,486 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good solid comfort food cookbook, October 17, 2008

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This review is from: The Old Farmer's Almanac Everyday Cookbook (Hardcover)

I wish I could give 4 1/2 stars, but just couldn't work up to 5...but this will make a perfect gift for those who love old fashioned comfort food; or as a gift to yourself. Many recipes are a bit beyond diner fare, but still simple enough for beginning cooks.
There are more than 400 recipes, not the 180 stated in the write-up. The book contains hints on many pages, such as to clean a pot with marks fill with water and add cream of tarter and bring to a boil, something my grandmother taught me, but doesn't seem to be well known today. There is a reference section including `how long will it keep' and `effects of freezing'.
Chapters include breakfast, appetizers, soups, salads, pasta, side dishes, poultry, meat, seafood, pasta, potatoes, breads, desserts, canning and preserving, barbecues. Comments and blue ribbon ratings are given.
If you are looking for a good solid old fashioned cookbook, something that would have your grandma's recipe for snow pudding or pioneer stew, but also contains braised lamb with gremolata or grilled salmon with maple mustard glaze, then this is the one for you. Just also be aware that the format is smaller than the normal 8X10, but believe me my eyesight isn't what it used to be and the pages are so clean and uncluttered I didn't have trouble reading the print.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not very authoritative., December 17, 2009

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Lee Walker "L. H. Walker" (Roxboro, NC, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Old Farmer's Almanac Everyday Cookbook (Hardcover)

This is probably not something that you want to make your main cookbook. I doubt that the people who submitted the recipes for this book really knew what they were talking about. The strawberry chiffon pie recipe NEVER works (try the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook instead), and the person who submitted the recipe for Brunswick Stew OBVIOUSLY knows NOTHING about it(it doesn't even call for potatoes HELLOOOOO!). Also, if you're a beginning cook you probably want to stay away from this one anyway because it doesn't have a lot of the basic recipes. For instance, it only has one recipe for fried chicken and it's a Louisiana style fried chicken rather than something more basic (They have a lot of nerve using southern recipes anyway since the person who came up with the Brunswick Stew recipe certainly wasn't southern). There recipe for baked beans is good but they leave out the important fact that you have to stir the beans now and then while they're baking). Who knows what other tips they left out. If your're a more experienced cook this book might be okay.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy and practical, August 25, 2009

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T. M. Martinez (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Old Farmer's Almanac Everyday Cookbook (Hardcover)

I have slowly been collecting cookbooks. I am always on the look-out for cookbooks that I can easily follow without a lot of complicated ingredients. I have mostly made the desserts including the carrot cake, banana sour cream bread and both have been a huge hit. I will continue to collect cookbooks mostly to read and dream of trying the complicated recipes hoping for perfection but this one I will use on a regular basis.