Product Description

This book is filled with recipes to make your own gifts. Each mix fits into a quart jar. The book even includes tags complete with recipient directions with each recipe. Just cut it out, personalize and attach to the jar. Fun to make and affordable, gifts in a jar make great gifts for neighbors, teachers and friends!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #219572 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Good recipes, but not many recipes
I have most of the books in this series. My parents are aging and I have been looking for items that I can make for them which will have a long shelf life and would require them to do minimal food preparation, yet still have a 'home cooked meal'. The recipes fit the bill for the most part. In each book I found that there were a few recipes that are great and some I wouldn't try at all. This is what I usually find in any cookbook. I would comment that each book only has about 25 or so recipes in it. The rest of the pages consist of 6 copies each of pre-made instruction cards to enclose with each food package. I did feel disappointed in the number of recipes for the cost of the book

Not an heirloom recipe but...
...it still makes a good cookie. I tried 2 recipes and made it with my stand mixer. My cookies were fine but they are of the thin and crispy variety, not the thick, chewy kind. I've already made up jars to give as gifts (flour & sugar trickles down through the ingredients - like chips and nuts - so I just reversed the order making sure all powdery stuff was on the bottom). All in all they're good gifts for anyone who wants homemade without the fuss of measuring (i.e. college students or projects for kids).

Too Sweet, Too Dry
There's a good, scientific reason that most cookie recipes have you cream together butter and sugar before you add ingredients. The problem with this book--like many mason jar cookie cookbooks--is that the cookie recipes seem to be just "regular" cookie recipes made without doing that step first. The resulting cookies have little taste and are overpoweringly sweet and dry. I only tried two...but after two, I couldn't bear to try any more.