Completely revised and updated with a fresh new design. More than 1,400 recipes—tested and perfected in the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen--including 4

Includes more than 1,200 recipes, along with meal-planning guides, menus, cooking tips and entertainment ideas.

Illustrated directions for making simple beverages, desserts, main dishes, salads, and vegetables, for planning menus, and for using kitchen equipment.

Lavishly illustrated guide presents gardening basics, landscaping, special gardens, and charts of over 800 plants, diseases, and pests.

This book is published [2005?] word for word, as in the "Red plaid cook book", and the text appears just as in the original 1953 edition.