Betty Crocker's Slow Cooker Cookbook

by Betty Crocker

Here's a collection of tasty and attractive dishes that can easily be prepared with little to no attention and are ready when you want to eat. Succulent meats, tender poultry and even vegetarian dishes, hot and full of simmered-in flavor, are waiting for you when you want them. This book is full of more than 120 no-nonsense, delicious recipes that are easy for anyone to use-just dump in the ingredients, dial the heat, and dinner will be ready when you get home from work. All the preparation can be done the night before, so putting dinner on in the morning a breeze. Recipes include everything -- meat, chicken ,and meatless main dishes to side dishes, dips, drinks, and even desserts -- with more than 50 photos of these easy, delicious meals. Slow cookers are an all around economical choice -- from the price of appliance to the amount of time spent cooking and the ingredients you can use makes this subject appealing to a wide group of consumers. Slow cooking enhances the flavor and also tenderizes all varieties of meat, including the less expensive cuts, so it is an economical way to cook. Most recipes have cooking times of 8 to 10 hours, so they can be started at the beginning of the day and be ready for dinnertime. Slow cookers are not only for the work-a-day world; they're also very convenient for entertaining and when stove/oven are being used for other food preparations. It is perfect for making crowd-size hot beverages, such as hot chocolate or mulled cider, and it keeps dips and side dishes hot for several hours, making it perfect for hassle-free entertaining and meal making. With Betty Crocker's Slow Cooker Cookbook, putting dinner on the table has never been easier.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food, Reference

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Lorraine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Betty Crockers Slow Cooker Cookbook gives all kinds of tips to using a slow cooker as well as ways to adapt one’s favorite recipes into slow cooker recipes. This is found in the beginning of the cookbook. It also covers topics such as vegetables, meaty recipes including ones for beef, lamb, and bacon, Poultry recipes cover various recipes in this category. There are even dessert recipes for the slow cooker. Information on which size of slow cooker to use is also available which I found very useful. The photography is stunning and gives the person making a certain recipe how it should appear when finished - not that mine ever do! 🙃 Personally, I love my slow cooker, and I am always looking for more ways to use it. Organization is important. Maybe, that is where I need work! 😉 4 stars.

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent slow cooker recipes that are easy to throw together and taste delicious. So far, I have made the Brunswick Stew (chicken based with tomato, potato, and veggies) which was delicious. The entire family enjoyed it and it was very flavorful with just a few simple ingredients. I will try more from this book over the winter months.

Recommended.

[KC · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent cookbook with lots of doable, delicious-sounding slow cooker recipes. Not a lot of pretentious ingredients either. Great basic cookbook!

[Amber · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some recipes were excellent, others incredibly bland.

[Cindy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like this one. A fellow BookCrosser gave it to me and every recipe I've tried has been at least pretty good, some of them excellent. I tried the New England pot roast yesterday, but it needed more horseradish. The long cooking time mellows it out so much you can hardly even taste it. But it was still easy and good.

[Elissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had a few recipes that looked good. It didn't have pictures, though- and that is my favorite part of a good cookbook. It was pretty thorough, as slow cooker cookbooks go, but like I said, it didn't have too many recipes to tempt me and my picky family.

[Naomi · Rating 2 out of 5]

I expected more out of a Bette Crocker cookbook. The recipes in the book looked boring, old fashioned and "typical". I think that there are books that contain a lot more exciting, contemporary and unusual types of crockpot cookbooks out there that would be much more worth looking into.

[Sheila · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Betty Crocker, and I am enjoying using my crockpot more using recipes from this book. Nice, easy recipes, some basic, some more exotic, but nothing too "out there".

[Melissa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Our family tried about 5 recipes from this book - all totally disgusting. I thought with a name like Betty "Crocker", we'd get some good "crock" pot recipes. wrong.

[Stephen]

carniverous

[etherealfire · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is more my speed! Slow and steady. To try: Picadillo (a Mexican Version of Hash) - page 72!

[Anna]

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[Tom Talamantez]

Very excited! Time to break the seal on that Crock pot. First up, steak chili!

[Chantal · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the only cookbook I have that I actually use. Also, it is very easy to modify the recipes to come up with your own flavor.