A review by sneeps
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book by Better Homes and Gardens

1.0

I've been burned by this book too many times....I mostly depend on recipes for baking, and just wing it when cooking, so I can only speak to the baking recipes here but all the ones I've tried are terrible. The pumpkin bread was nigh inedible. The oatmeal cookies call for too much butter and not enough oats, resulting in cookies that spread too much even after chilling the dough for hours, and are not particularly tasty. The fudgy brownies are cakey, and the cakey brownies are just dense (flavorless) chocolate cake. The chocolate chip cookies don't even call for salt (they do in my mom's older version). The banana bread is okay, but I always increase the amount of banana because the recipe turns out too dry otherwise. (I also cut the sugar by half bc it is way too sweet otherwise)
I am not the world's best baker, but I know these recipes are to blame because I follow them closely and get bad results every time, while following recipes I've gotten passed down from family always turns out with something delicious.