The Slow Cooker Crock Pot

Cuisinart’s special programmable crockpot here.

Cuisinart Slow Cooker Crockpot

I know I’ve been big on ads, and low on good recipes and content. I’ll get back to it. I’ll get recipes out for Christmas. Meanwhile, Crockery Cookery was a #1 bestseller in 1978. Some of the chapters:
1) Menu Planning Gude
2) Use & Care
3) Metric Conversion Chart & Table of Measurements
4) Consumer’ers Guide to Slow-Cooking Pots (a little out of date now (;
5) Beef (yes, and always natural — no -hormones or antibiotics)
6) Other Meats
7) Poultry
Vegetables …. and so on.

Still a great book.

Take a look at a few specials from Amazon:

In the first part of Mable Hoffman’s book Crockery Cookery, we learn all about what a slowcooker crock pot is — from how to buy one to how to clean it and more.  Then we get into recipes.  In the poultry section, we find recipes for turkey, from sweet and sour turkey wings, turkey loaf to stuffed turkey breast to cran-orange turkey roll to barbecued turkey legs.  Almost sounds good enough to eat!

She tells us that vegetables often take longer to cook than some poultry, and one trick is to put the vegetables at the bottom of the crockpot underneath the chicken or turkey.  Be sure to cover the vegetables with liquid as well.

She says turkey is very delicious slow cooked, and that turkey legs, thighs and wings cook well in the slow cooker. She says they become very juicy, tender and flavorful.  A 4 1/2-quart or larger crockpot is recommended for larger turkey parts,.  If we use a 3 1/2-quart crockpot, we need to use smaller turkey parts or remove the bones.

These recipes use a lot of the traditional no no’s of yesteryears — Worcestershire sauce, instant this and that, brown sugar…. but it will be easy enough to tweak these delicious-sounding recipes to make them healthy.  And that we will do in the next blog!

From what I can tell, this 1975 book by Mable Hoffman Crockery Cookery is still the best on the market.

*  use a crockpot and get more vitamins and minerals from your food — with the lid on the pot, the mins and vits stay inside

*  enjoy the tenderest of meats by the long slow-cooking process

*  learn about the different brands of crockpots from Cornwall, to Corning, Regal, to Sunbeam, Enpire, Rival and more and comparison temperature and cooking differences

* small, large, style differences of slow cookers

* and all kinds of recipes

Soon to post a few recipes for the holidays.