Good Grape Wine Company

1. First and foremost, the recipes. Simply put, they turn out right every time and yield delicious results. This is the only baking book I have ever found that provides consistently reliable results on every recipe I've tried. No guess work, no hit and miss. What more could you ask for? Plus, there is a wide variety of recipes here - every kind of cookie you could hope to find.

2. The format. Lots of pictures, with the name of the recipe and page where it can be found clearly identified for each picture. Also, the book is divided into chapters that make sense. The book has a hard cover, to withstand years of kitchen abuse and to make the book readily identifiable on the shelf, and a spiral binding, so the pages lay flat. Bravo to the publisher for making this a very usable, practical cookbook. Plus, the pictures are wonderful. They were taken when the goal of food photography was to make the food look like actual food, not high art. These cookies look like something that could come from your own oven.

3. The nostalgia. I remember so many of these recipes from my childhood, and you probably will too. It was so fun to reminisce about the various recipes and the memories they invoked.


Nostalgic yet still awesome cook book   September 4, 2002
 6 out of 7 found this review helpful

I grew up with this cook book, making snickerdoodles and candy
cane cookies with my sisters and friends for Christmas. My Mom
still has her original copy, loose pages, notations on favorite
recipes and clippings inserted everywhere. I think we even used
it to help earn our Girl Scout cooking badge! I have always
told my mom if she ever sees it available for sale, get me one!
Mom, my search is done!


An avid baker from Vienna, VA.   August 22, 2002
 5 out of 5 found this review helpful

I was given this book as a young pre-teen from my grandmother who knew I loved to bake. Now, as a 42 year-old mother of two young boys, I am sharing the resumes and fun of baking with my children. Though the pages has become a little tattered, our favorite cookie recipes are right in this book!


Wonderful Childhood Memories   August 21, 2002
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

My mother and my aunt both had this cookie book when I was growing up. Some of my favorite memories of Christmas is making cookies with them. My mothers has become stained and some of the pages have been torn. I look forward to sharing my memories and making many precious memories with my children. This cookie book has many wonderful receipes that will become family favorites and the memories are priceless.


Christmas all year   August 19, 2002
 8 out of 9 found this review helpful

This is a treasure trove of wonderful cookie recipes. Pecan crispies are light and elegant. Thumbprint, Russian teacake, meringues and sugar cookies are holiday favorites. Shamrock cookies become witches' fingers for Halloween with just omission of food coloring and a different rolling technique. Almond butter, French lace, nut crunch cookies. Of course, there are hundreds more--your favorites, no doubt! I recommend buying this book if you bake, or if you hope to. But I will add, it's not the "original" Betty Crocker cookie book. My mother has that--from the 30's or 40's I think, smaller and with fewer recipes, but awesome. This version has vivid color photographs so you can drool--or occupy your kids with just visuals--while you consider what to make next!