We were so excited when we received this cookbook as a gift. We love our cast iron skillet! We immediately made 3 different recipes from this cookbook. Two out of the three were complete duds - the recipes didn't even work. The baked beans has a fundamental flaw - it tells you to soak the beans for only an hour when all recipes with dry beans call for soaking beans overnight. Therefore, the beans in this recipe never cook!I'm an experienced cook - this is not user error; rather it is a recipe error.The most frustrating aspect is that the recipes we made - such as the baked beans - took considerable time and were complete duds.