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The Absolute Beginner's Cookbook: or, How Long Do I Cook a 3-Minute Egg? (Hardcover)
by Jackie Eddy (Author), Eleanor Clark (Author) "Every experienced cook has to know how to cook an egg..." (more)
Key Phrases: medium fry pan, small fry pan, large fry pan, Miracle Whip, Serving Suggestion, Cole Slaw (more...)

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For those who are clueless in the kitchen--who can tell the difference between the stove and refrigerator, but turning groceries into leftovers--this is the cookbook for them! With fun B&W illustrations throughout, tasty meals such as One Step Lasagna, Busy Day Ham Wellington, and Overnight Crab Casserole are a snap to make--and will even impress family and friends. Transform culinary tragedies into triumphs with this helpful guide.

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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Gramercy (March 4, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0517221705
ISBN-13: 978-0517221709
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.00 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews.
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,925 in Books (See Top Sellers in Books)
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Key Phrases - SIPs: medium fry pan, small fry pan, large fry pan, undiluted soup, cereal cream (more)

Key Phrases - CAPs: Miracle Whip, Serving Suggestion, Cole Slaw, Yorkshire Pudding, Glazed Carrots (more)

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Every experienced cook has to know how to cook an egg. Read the first page

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medium fry pan, small fry pan, large fry pan, undiluted soup, cereal cream, bacon chips, electric fry pan, dry mustard powder, turn oven

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Miracle Whip, Serving Suggestion, Cole Slaw, Yorkshire Pudding, Glazed Carrots, Variation These, Baked Potato, Taco Dip

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126 of 127 people found the following review helpful:

No-fail recipes for everday meals, September 5, 1999

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Angel Lee (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews

The book teaches you everything you need to know from how to hard-boil an egg to stir frying broccoli. It makes are great gift of any beginning cook.

Recipes include breakfast foods, eggs, breads, soups, sandwiches, salads, main dishes, vegetables, desserts, & appetizers. There is no gourmet fare here, just the delicious uncomplicated meals for everyday people.

Some of my favorite desserts are the apple dumplings & easy lemon chiffon pie. I enjoyed the oven pot-roast, meatballs, chili, & pork chops as well. I know I will never get bored with 8 different potato recipes.

I also loved the one-step lasagna. It's great because you don't have to cook the noodles before baking, making it quick & easy to make. The never-fail cheese souffl & salmon pate will impress dinner guests without hours of frustration.

72 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

NOT for beginners. Assumes a lot., March 24, 2006

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Jenni Kmiotek "chaospearl" (Long Island) - See all my reviews

This is overall an excellent cookbook. It's simple, easy to follow, and has good recipes. Not great but good. That being said, this is NOT a book for the absolute beginner. It assumes that you know a lot of basic terminology and technique, which is really stupid considering the title.

The book is marketed for people who don't know how to boil water, and yet on the very first page it tells you to fill a saucepan with cold water and immerse an egg. A SAUCEPAN? I don't know about you, but when I was a beginning cook, I called that particular item "a pot" -- the word saucepan is correct, but you'd need to be a culinary sort of person to know that a saucepan is not a pan at all, that is, not an object which is wide and round but only an inch deep. A novice cook sees the word PAN and thinks of a skillet\spider\frying pan. Most people do; it's an understandable error.

I gave my sister this book and asked her what she'd do when confronted with the instruction to fill a saucepan with cold water and immerse an egg. She went into the cupboard, took out a 14" frying pan about half an inch deep, filled it with water, and stuck the egg in. The egg was about three times as high as the sides of the pan. My sister isn't stupid, she just doesn't know that a saucepan is actually a small pot. Nobody who buys a book titled "How Long Do I Cook a Three-Minute Egg?" is going to know that!

After this, the book goes on with such instructions as, "dice the vegetables finely" ... um, dice? What does dice mean? Oh, it means to chop up? How was I supposed to know that? Into what shape do I chop? How big should the shapes be? How thin is finely? The book says nothing, so if you're unfamiliar with a fine dice, you're screwed.

After that, here's the book telling us "allow to simmer for half an hour" without ever bothering to mention what simmer means. Is it high heat? Low? The same heat I was cooking on before? Does it mean there are bubbles in the liquid? Again, no explanation whatsoever.

As I stated, this is a great book, but I cannot stress enough how it is NOT FOR BEGINNERS.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

My first and best cookbook, January 22, 2007

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Christopher A. Dellario "Shmigget" (Nottingham, NH United States) - See all my reviews

My mother valued her solitude in her kitchen, and so I didn't know a thing about cooking when I decided to make my new girlfriend dinner. Thanks to this cookbook, the first meal I ever cooked was a cheese souffle, and because of the book's never-fall recipe I looked like a culinary genius. It's now seventeen years later and I'm married to that woman, and both of us still return to this book. When my two children are ready to cook I'll be buying them copies.

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The Absolute Beginner's Cookbook: or, How Long Do I Cook a 3-Minute Egg?, August 22, 2006

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J. Wheeler "jdreamer" (Northeast Georgia) - See all my reviews

It's perfect for my boyfriend who is learning to cook and asked for "cooking for dummies" but I saw this book and the excerpt I read was great so I got it instead.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

You cook a 3-minute egg for 3 minutes., March 21, 2006

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Joseph S. Newburg (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews

Firstly, I enjoyed this book and its contents. It's great for one of two people. Either a child or possibly someone who's mother has made every meal for them since they were born and have to move out to go to college. Many of the things were far too simple. If someone wanted to make pasta sauce then they want to make it. They don't want to buy a can of some companies sauce and put their own spices in it. Also, the recipies are simplified and can make think taste not as great as you might have hoped. Other than these few things I think it's fantastic and it does have quite a few recipies that are going to be new to anyone most people picking it up.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

What I was looking for., February 25, 2006

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Lila Casey - See all my reviews

I bought this book as a gift for my grandchild who wants to start cooking. As I looked though it, I was pleased at its contents. It has the basics explained well with recipes that are simple but not so simple as to be boring. Actually my daughter has used it (mother of the child I bought it for)and was pleased with the recipe she used. I would recemmend this book to anyone interested in beginning cooking.

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