Review: ONE OF THE BETTER KINDLE COOKBOOKS I HAVE SEEN SO FAR.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 9, 2012
First you may note that there may not an Amazon Verified Purchase tag on this review.  The reason for this is that this little cookbook has been down loaded to my wife's Kindle and I am not sure I downloaded it to mine.  My wife does not do reviews.  Normally I do not comment on the books my wife downloads - she is at 475 at this time as she and I do not share the same reading taste.  I must make an exception though in the case of this book due to the fact that I am one of those that are reaping the benefits of what my wife and this book have produced.Now let me state that my wife has been baking for over sixty years now and while not a "professional" she most certainly can be classified as an expert.  While both she and I cook (We have taken turns for years), she is the one that dose ALL the baking as I am one of those people who have trouble opening a store bought pack of cookies, much less trying to make them myself.  We have collected literally hundreds of cookbooks over the years and are always looking for new ones.As to the Kindle cookbooks...between my wife and I we have downloaded a very large number.  Some of these books have been good and many have been absolutely wretched.  A very few could I classify as "great," and of those few I would have to place this work, Grandma's Best Muffin Recipes by Marg Ruttan right up there at the top.This is a collection of muffin recipes that are not only extremely easy and fast to make, but of the eight she has baked so far, they have been absolutely delicious.  I am personally not a big fan of muffins, but even I have found these things to be almost addictive.The recipes are very easy to follow and each and every recipe in contained to only one page, which by the way, is a format that all Kindle cookbook authors should shoot for.  The ingredients are all readily available and other than the fruit required in some of the recipes, all are available locally, either fresh or frozen.  The recipes are written in clear, concise and understandable language and the author leaves little to no guess work.  But here is the thing...these recipes are VERY forgivable!  My wife is one of those bakers that is constantly "fooling" with the recipes she uses; more or less adding her own "touch" to things.  Of all the different types of cooking, baking is the most difficult to do this with and normally recipes need to be precisely followed.  The recipes given in this work are great as they stand, but each can be altered just a tad if desired without disastrous results...if of course you know what you are doing to begin with.All of the muffins featured in this work can be frozen and reheated later with excellent results.Now I will say, and this is not to be taken as a critical remark at all, is that if you are seeking "health food" recipes then you will find that this work is a bit light in this area.  That is okay though.  If I want that sort of thing I will buy a book specifically for that thing.I cannot for the life of me see how you can go wrong with this one.  I have paid a lot of dollars for cookbooks over the years that gave me far less information and eating enjoyment than what she paid for this one.Don BlankenshipThe Ozarks