Not strictly a cookbook, but the "cookery" sections -- there were 3 in all -- did offer a full cookbook's worth of recipes. The Lemon Lightning was just lemonade, although made with a shortcut that has been revived and rebranded as a "hack" numerous times since this was published. For the record, I don't think tossing unpeeled lemons in the blender is much of an effort-saver over just squeezing the lemons, although I'm still on the fence about whether the skin does or does not make it a bit more bitter. Also, I cut down the sugar by 75 percent and still would up finding this a little too sweet by the bottom of the 2nd glass (it made 2). Still, not a disappointment since I bought the yearbook purely for nostalgia reasons and the fact that it even has recipes in it is a bonus even if I can't/won't ever use most of them (and I never actually did learn to sew well or knit at all).