This is the only cookbook my inlaws have in their vacation house and it is really all you need. For vacations, anyway. Great cookies. Awesome fluffy pancakes, which tend to fall to me. The only thing we have tried that has all-out failed is their recipe which calls for brining shrimp in something like 3 1/2 cups salt and water. Needless to say the shrimp was ruined and inedibly salty. Must have been a typo?