Many people do not know how to cook. They can't envision how mashed potatoes are made nor do they realize that cookie dough isn't native to the refrigerated section at the store. It astonishes some non cooks to learn that they can actually make
home-baked cookies using ingredients such as flour, sugar, vanilla and butter. For these cooking-challenged home buyers, a beginner's cookbook such as Betty Crocker makes a useful gift.
For your more advanced or creative cooks, say, those home buyers who bought the gourmet kitchen with a six-burner Viking stove, you can find an array of colorfully illustrated cooking books by cuisine or nationality at any large bookstore.
Buy the Original 1950 Betty Crocker Cookbook 
