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Recipes designed for the individual or a couple. A wide variety of recipes are in the book and there are some color photos. The recipes are also easy to prepare.

Nov 11, 2020 Lisa Kisner rated it it was amazing

I lost my copy of this book and I plan on purchasing another copy. The recipes were good and I used mine a lot when I married my husband in 1982.

Apr 25, 2014 Robin rated it really liked it

My mom purchased this book in the 1980s after we kiddies left home and I inherited it a few years back. At first I thought it was strictly retro kitsch, from its yellow-tinged pre-Photoshop images to its recipes like salmon loaf, pork stroganoff, and Hungarian frankfurters. But when I actually tried a recipe, Cornish hens with cranberry-orange sauce, I was hooked. These old recipes work! Not only that, most recipes can be doubled for a larger family and/or leftovers.

Recipes are divided into Entr

Recipes are divided into Entrée, Side Dish, Dessert, and Beverage and Snack chapters. A short Tips and Techniques chapter includes a useful chart with maximum food storage time for refrigerator or freezer. Some recipes call for ingredients that I don't use, like frozen broccoli, which can be easily substituted. Others seem simple and useful though I don't eat that kind of food, like fish and chips and fettuccini Alfredo. And then there are to go-to recipes.

Family favorites include turkey drumstick dinner, chicken pot pies, dried fruit chicken curry, garden Swiss steak, wild rice-stuffed red snapper, Pennsylvania Dutch pork steaks, herbed tomato soup, wilted spinach salad, and spicy hot chocolate. Must-try recipes include spicy barbecued chicken, sweet-sour bratwurst skillet, sole Provencal, cheese soufflé, shrimp and crab with Louis dressing, home style rice pudding, and peppermint baked Alaska. And yes, I did try the "too retro" salmon loaf, and it's delicious.

Anyone with an interest in American cookbooks of the historical variety will enjoy this book. People used to cooking for a family might find it useful, as my mom did, when the kids are all packed off to college.

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