Betty Crocker Found Recipes has an abundance of recipes to satisfy any baker. This would be a wonderful addition to any baker's recipe collection.

I am a fan of Betty Crocker - cake mixes are a staple when I don't have time for doing something from scratch and I like to think I invented the Dunkaroo when we used to grab a can of icing and some graham crackers to take as a movie snack in the 80s with my friends - so picking up a book of found recipes was fun. I expected to see some of the classics from way back in the day like cheese balls and Goddess dip, and I wasn't disappointed. There were also some great more recent recipes or at least recipes that would stand the test of time and not simply be nostalgic memories.

I appreciated that there was history and a story behind the way the book evolves and the recipes were chosen. And I have already tried a few and found them to be successes. My kids adored the orange honey muffins, and I have been searching for a gumdrop cake for many years that replicated the one my grandmother used to make when I was little.

All in all, there is a good variety of recipes here and they are easy to follow with (mostly) items you'd have close to hand or be able to find at most grocery stores. At least, those in the US and Canada which is what I'm most familiar with.

Looking forward to testing a few more and will probably pick this up when it comes out either for me or for gifting. Or both.

Lost a favorite recipe you discovered years ago? Maybe its in here!

It goes without saying that the folks at Betty Crocker have a few recipes in their possession….after all, they have been printing cookbooks, cooking magazines, and more for a long, long time. The premise of this collection is simple….people have contacted them over the years, hoping that Betty Crocker can help them find a recipe (maybe a Betty Crocker original, maybe not) that they remember having enjoyed once upon a time or that has mysteriously gone missing from their own collection. This cookbook is a combination of those requests, what Betty Crocker was able to uncover and./or recreate….and is a cross-section of types of foods and decades of origin. Sweet and sour meatballs? Check. Recipes using Bisquick? Got you covered. But alongside recipes that I remember from my parents’ or grandparents’ parties back in the day, there are also things of more recent vintage….Ravioli with Roasted Red Pepper Cream, for example. The first recipe I tried out was for Impossibly Easy Chicken Parmigiana Pie, using some leftover chopped chicken breast, pasta sauce and cottage cheese with a Bisquick-based crust (I needed to throw dinner together quickly, realized I had the ingredients on hand….perfect!) and my picky teen daughter and less-than-adventurous husband both approved….not a bit left over for the following day. There is a recipe for a glazed lemon loaf that looks like one that a friend’s mother who is no longer with us used to make….that is on the list to try next. One thing is for sure, you can always trust that a Betty Crocker-approved recipe will work out well, that the directions will be clear, and that the ingredients will (mostly) be things you regularly have on hand or can readily find. I had a lot of fun thumbing through the book, reading the backstory of where the sleuths found the requested recipe or what they did to tweak and/or recreate those they couldn’t find. I have a few more recipes, throwbacks or infringing new ideas, to pop into my own recipe files…..and I suspect other cooks will find the same. Many thanks to NetGalley and William Morrow/Harvest for allowing me access to an early copy of this cookbook…..and my family thanks you too!

Old school recipes that are total throwbacks to a different era. Interesting easy to follow recipes, some offbeat combinations of ingredients accompanied by nice photos. This was a fun read. Loved the old advertisements too. I read this from cover to cover like a novel!

Betty Crocker is such a nostalgic namesake. I remember getting into my grandmothers cookbooks (anyone remember the red and white checkered Betty Crocker books?) and reading them begging my Nana to bake something out of the cookbook.
I find this addition to be absolutely beautiful. I loved all of the old photos and history as well as the new photography alongside the recipe. One thing that I can always count on in Betty Crocker cookbooks are easy recipes. There is nothing that is overly complicated. As a mom of four children, I need easy recipes. I found quite a few recipes already in this edition that I definitely will be trying. From the Lemon-Poppy Seed Pound Cake to the Pork Chop and New Potato Skillet recipe, everything sounds absolutely delicious.!

When I saw a title for "found recipes", I was honestly a bit skeptic. Then, after I looked into the recipes? I can see why some became lost. There are, as with many other cookbooks, some meals I found in this that will stay in the dinner rotation - make no mistake!

I love cookbooks and this is a fun one filled with vintage "lost" recipes. Like a lot of recipes from the past, some of these call for really strange ingredients to be combined but it was fun to look through!

Can a cookbook be fun to read? The answer is "yes". There are a lot of great recipes in this book and some old and new pictures. Note: Not every recipe has a picture, but most do. Another plus is that there are no far-out-there ingredients. Two recipes that immediately come to mind and that I will be making soon are Raspberry and Cream Cheese Coffee Rounds and Peppered Roast Beef with Horseradish Sauce. I can't wait to start cooking!

There are times when vintage recipes from older cookbooks just don't work for the way we shop, cook and eat today. This one is an exception -- a lovingly curated collection of over 100 recipes from older Betty Crocker cookbooks, featuring the most popular, asked-for, timeless favorites. They've all been retested for today's kitchen and today's home cooks, and they are winners. The accent is on main dishes, holidays and celebrations, and of course, desserts and breads. This is going to be loved by cooks of all ages, and will be fun for the generations to share.

Betty Crocker Found Recipes is a very fun book that will likely take you down memory lane. There is a chance this cookbook will spark some horrifying curiosity towards the somewhat bizarre recipes of yesteryear that you may dare to recreate!

Betty Crocker cookbooks are a staple of most American kitchens and I had fun reading about the history of Betty Crockers herself (spoiler alert - she is not a real person!) and also getting little tidbits of information in each recipe. Some of the recipes are from cookbooks, magazines, and the back of old mix boxes. I really enjoyed the visual of women backing in past decades, old magazine advertisements and recipes, and as well as sweet comments from fans of the old recipes.

Although this may not be a go-to recipe book for an average week, this cookbook is a fun piece of nostalgia that might just come in handy the next time you want to bring a unique dish to your next get-together. The photos of the dishes are beautiful and really give you a good idea of what you're trying to create with each dish.

Thank you to NetGalley, William Morrow, Harvest, and of course Betty Crocker for the ARC of this cute recipe book!

I thought it was wonder to have the opportunity to view so many vintage recipes without having to research a variety of cookbooks. I also found the history of Betty Crocker quite interesting.

In contrast, I didn’t find many recipes that interested me enough to want to try them. I believe this book would be more suited as a coffee table book than a cookbook.

Thank you NetGalley and Harper Ollie’s Publishers for the opportunity to read this ARC.

When I was a little girl I would pour over my Mom's stained iconic checkered Better Crocker cookbook The new Cookbook. This was on the 1970s..the pictured dish of sugar grapes still lives in my head rent free.
When I was slightly older, the grocery store lines would beckon me to flip through those smaller cookbooks that had a great theme to them. This book here combines some of those that I remember as well as a few recipes from Betty Crocker Baking for Today ( which has my signature go to lemon loaf recipe). What a treat this collection of "lost" recipes is!
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.

A fun book! This was a fun foray into the past and some gross looking and some delicious looking recipes. It reminded me a bit about those tiktokers who make super old recipes that could go horrifically bad or gloriously wonderful. It was really fun!

When we read books of various kinds, if the author is a good one, feelings are evoked. I don’t think I have felt quite so warm and snuggly while reading a book as I did while reading this one. Betty Crocker Found Recipes (scheduled for publication November 26th, so plan ahead) is an absolute delight for anyone who remembers her early cookbooks, magazine advertisements, and other bits of ephemera that would feature recipes of one kind or other. Paging through, I remembered meals that my grandmother used to make employing the use these old recipes. Seeing them all in this book, with beautiful photographs to accompany them, made me feel so loved. I know that sounds strange when talking about a cookbook, but that is how I felt.

From beginning to end, this cookbook is an absolute delight. It is a collection of “found” recipes from the past. They have been re-created with modern kitchens in mind, and all placed into this one book. In addition to re-creating lost recipes, consumers who helped participate in the making of this book described favorite dishes they remembered from their past but for which they had no recipe, and using that descriptive information, Betty Crocker created replicas. I guarantee that you will find many old friends while paging through this book. I was amazed at how many memories came to mind while looking at these recipes. Suddenly, I was transported decades into the past sitting beside family members, now gone, enjoying Sunday dinner at grandma’s table.

The book is divided into five sections:
Holiday Celebrations
Memorable Main Dishes
Warm from the Oven Breads
Irresistible Cookies and Bars
Better than Desserts

The origins of the recipes are mentioned in a blurb proceeding each one, something I found as fascinating as the recipes themselves. The old advertisements peppered throughout the book were both a visual and nostalgic delight. Also included are individual cook’s (fan's) memories of the recipes that they had requested be included in the book.

If anything is lacking, it’s the absence of vegetable recipes. I happen to like vegetables a great deal, so was disappointed not to see any vegetable recipes contained within.

This cookbook is unique, a joy to page through, and no doubt pure delight to cook from. I cannot recommend this highly enough. Young people will appreciate the recipes for their ease, variety, and failing to employee ingredients that are hard to find. Older people are going to love looking back to when they themselves made these recipes, and enjoyed sharing the results with their families.

Many thanks to NetGalley, publisher Harvest Books, and Betty Crocker for providing me with an advanced digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

Vintage recipes have stood the test of time, and have become staples in many homes over the years. And Betty Crocker is an icon, known for mostly easy, doable recipes. It’s nice that many of the old recipes that have stayed popular for decades have been compiled in an excellent cookbook that are right at our fingertips to make and bring back memories of earlier times. Betty Crocker Found Recipes: Beloved Vintage Recipes Worth Sharing, is an excellent cookbook, filled with recipes that have been tested over and over, and are appealing to those of us who are old cooks and those who are of the newer generations that need to be introduced to good recipes that are just as good now as they were then.

As is standard Betty Crocker, this excellent cookbook contains recipes for every palate, and most of them are easy enough to make by every cook, whether beginning or advanced. The recipes are written in the standard form with a list of ingredients first, followed by step-by-step instructions. The comments preceding each recipe are helpful, too. While most of the recipes aren’t particularly fancy, they are good, solid dishes that everyone will like. The recipes come from pamphlets and recipe books released over the years.

Another positive aspect of this cookbook is that there are beautiful, professional photographs of most of the recipes, so everyone can see just what the finished dish will look like. There are appetizers, breads, casseroles, soups, salads, and desserts, many of which utilize ingredients that most of us have on our pantry shelves. Bisquick is also a shortcut ingredient that has been around almost forever, and makes for quick dinners.
All told, this is an excellent cookbook, and one that the newer generations need to have on their shelves so they can enjoy the iconic dishes of yesteryear.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

As I was reading this book…I kept thinking “ I know that recipe,” and this “ is my mom’s recipe”… That is when I realized that a large number of these recipes are in fact, the ones I have in my recipe box. Which came from my mother. Many are from the 1940’s and 50’s.

Does this detract from the recipe book?Not at all. Rather it stands in testament to how good these recipes are. They are literally in my meal rotation. Tried and true, delicious and straight forward to make.

If you did not have a mother or grandmother that handed down recipes from the time when they were cooking, you should definitely get this book. I highly recommend.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me this ARC.

Betty Crocker Found Recipes: Beloved Vintage Recipes Worth Sharing
Betty Crocker
I remember my mother had a Betty Crocker Cookbook; it was a ring binder and she used it. I think most families had a Betty Crocker Cookbook.
This book is invaluable. It covers the whole meal from salad to main course to dessert. This book is 270 pages approximately and filled with delicious recipes and colored photos of many of the dishes. Most of the recipes are from the 60s through the 90s. This is a special cookbook because it reminded me to days gone by.
There are photos of the Betty Crocker of the past. This book would make a great wedding gift, Mother’s Day gift, birthday gift, etc. to your favorite cook.
Thank you NetGalley for providing me with a review copy of this book.

This book combines so many of the really amazing Betty Crocker recipes that I remember from the original cookbook my mother referenced when I was growing up. It makes me feel nostalgic as well as excited to try these again.

This cookbook did not have the 1940s/50s vibe I'd hoped for but it did have classically sweet, full of whipped cream, heavy on the comfort food options that one would associate with Betty Crocker. Some fun history of the brand and "Betty." and a few I actually will try like scones that look easier to do than most and a chicken stew. Also a beans and cornbread casserole.

You know how everyone always raved about Grandma's cooking? Do you know what her main recipe book probably was? Betty Crocker. I have one, everyone I know my age or older has one. But cooking techniques and tastes have changed over time.

The book contains the following chapters:
Introduction: The Betty Crocker Story
Holiday Celebrations
Memorable Main Dishes
Warm from the Oven Breads
Irresistible Cookies and Bars
Better than Ever Desserts

Even though Betty Crocker is long associated with baking, this book covers salads and simple main meals that satisfy and are not complicated. This book takes some of the old favorites and has republished the ones that appeal to modern tastes. The photos are mouth watering, the recipes are more or less traditional, satisfying, and delicious. Many of the recipes list where and when the original recipe was published, but most are from the 1960's through the 1990's. You will not find a recipe that requires an air fryer, a sous vide, or an InstaPot - only standard kitchenware.

I enjoyed the historical notes and the old photographs. This is a great resource for an inexperienced cook, or for an experienced person wanting some basic, delicious recipes.