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The Ultimate Pressure-Cooker Cookbook

Nobody knows more about pressure cookers than Vickie Smith, creator of the leading pressure-cooker Web site, MissVickie.com. Now, at last, Miss Vickie has gathered all of her pressure-cooker wisdom into a book. Whether you're a pressure-cooker newcomer or a longtime fan, you'll find all the recipes, techniques, and tips you need for a lifetime of great pressure-cooker meals.

Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes is jam-packed with nearly 400 fast, tasty, foolproof recipes, ranging from one-pot meals like Chicken and Rice with Mushrooms to Sweet and Sour Pork, Navy Bean Soup, and Chocolate Malt Cheesecake. Miss Vickie's detailed recipe instructions and special techniques, such as "pan in pot" pressure cooking, guarantee that each dish comes out perfectly cooked--and perfectly delicious.

But Miss Vickie gives you more than just great recipes. Her book also provides in-depth guidance on every aspect of choosing and using a pressure cooker, including:
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A buyers' guide to modern pressure cookers
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Step-by-step pressure-cooker instructions
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Pressure-cooker safety
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Basic and advanced pressure-cooking techniques
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Common mistakes in pressure cookery
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Adapting recipes to the pressure cooker
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Tips, tricks, and troubleshooting


Offering hundreds of recipes that are proven to work--and proven delicious--plus plain-English answers to all of your pressure-cooker questions, Miss Vickie has created the single most useful pressure-cooker book ever published. It's a resource you'll turn to again and again as you explore the world of pressure-cooker possibilities and pleasures.

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 "Extensive Information" 2010-08-27
By Patricia A. Goodman
This book is geared only to non electric pressure cookers. There is no problem in using the recipes for electric pressure cookers, however.

About the first 100 pages include info on pressure cookers, how to use them, how to cook food, how long to cook, etc. If you are new to pressure cooking as I was or if your only experience with pressure cooking was with the scary pressure cooker your mother used (like me), this book is just what you need. The author tells you everything you will need to know about how to use a pressure cooker, whether you use the stove top or electric.

If you don't need the info on pressure cookers, skip right to the recipes. The recipe section is incredibly extensive and includes just about any type of food I could think of to cook. These are good recipes and tend to have more ingredients than typical with fast, family type recipes. However, given that you are using a pressure cooker, most of the time is preparation time. You will find enough recipes in this book to keep your family happy for a long time without repeating any of the recipes.

In addition to the recipes, Miss Vickie also provides info on various topics, like making stock, etc.

I will probably never get to all the recipes in the book. However, it is a treasure trove of info on pressure cooking and cooking in general. You can't go wrong with this book and won't be sorry if you buy it.


 "ALL THAT I NEEDED" 2010-08-21
By Constance Rodgers Faison (USA)
THIS BOOK IS MASSIVE, AND IT INCLUDED SO MUCH INFORMATION CONCERNING PRESSURE COOKING. I NEEDED IT FOR AN ELECTRIC PRESSURE COOKER, BUT I CAN'T FIND MANY BOOKS THAT RELATE TO THAT KIND OF PRESSURE COOKER. THIS WORKS OUR FINE. IT'S ALL THAT I NEEDED AND MORE. THANKS FOR SUCH A GOOD BOOK.


 "The Pressure Cooker cook's Bible" 2010-08-20
By Darlene Turner (Rio Linda, CA, US)
For those of you who have been lucky enough to discover this cook book, you have not only found the only pressure cooker cookbook you will ever need, but you have also purchased a full lesson plan for buying, using and passing down your pressure cooker to the next generation. Being a child of the '50's, I remember my mother making many different dishes with her pressure cooker. We were a family of 11 and when 9 of those 11 were tall, healthy, part-Irish, eating machines, the pressure cooker presented my mother with a quick way to prepare inexpensive meals for the entire family, in record time. Cube steak, chicken, soups of all kinds, sauerkraut and pork ribs, roasts and stews, all are some of the favorites that my mother made in the pressure cooker on a weekly basis. For those of you who are nervous about using a pressure cooker, try it and you will never go back to the time consuming drudgery of cooking with pots and pans again. Good luck and thanks Miss Vickie. D. Turner, Rio Linda, CA.


 "Too many processed ingredients" 2010-08-08
By Price Watcher
This book has lots of recipes, and the various techniques (such as pot in pot) are useful. However, the recipes are not for me. They are very "semi-homemade"--full of processed ingredients. Not for people who prefer to cook from scratch from real ingredients. For example, here's a recipe for a pork roast: pork, can of golden cream of mushroom soup, can of root beer, packet of dried onion soup mix. I would never use any of those ingredients, so that recipe could just as well have been a blank page. Probably about every fourth or fifth recipe is like that. Had I know this, I definitely would have chosen a different book. For now, I am just using the few recipes that came in my America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, which I trust.

All that said, the techniques are a valuable resource, so if you either like "semi-homemade" or don't mind flipping past many of the recipes, the book is useful. I love using my pressure cooker in the simplest of ways (poached chicken breasts in half a cup of water are done in 4 minutes) but looking at this book has inspired me to try cooking new things in different ways


 "good resource" 2010-08-05
By R. Callis (Virginia)
lots of recipes, some too gourmet....after all, I'm looking to SAVE time by using a pressure cooker, not rustle up 20 ingredients!


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