Franklin BCC-400 User manual

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About this
Cookbook
Introduction
Congratulations! You now own a portable,
powerful cooking reference that you can
take anywhere. This electronic cookbook
can help you find recipes in a number of
easy ways you can’t execute by using a
printed book. With your electronic cookbook
you can
• search for recipes by their ingredients,
category or name;
• find nutrition information on each recipe;
• read special helps such as
Freezer and
Refrigerator Storage , or
Substitutions for Emergencies ;
• highlight words in text to search;
• place your own notes as bookmarks;
and
• go directly to a cross-reference and
back.
It’s as simple as typing words and then
pressing the appropriate function keys.
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Contents
Key Guide Function Keys ..................................... 4
Direction Keys..................................... 5
Other Keys.......................................... 5
Installing the Batteries ........................ 6
Turning the Product On ...................... 6
Disabling the Demonstration .............. 7
Changing Settings .............................. 8
Tips for Beginners .............................. 9
Searching by Name ............................ 10
Searching by Ingredients.................... 11
Adding More Ingredients .................... 12
Text Search Tips ................................ 14
Searching by Category ....................... 15
Finding Nutrition Information .............. 16
Viewing Special Helps ........................ 17
Using the Index................................... 18
Highlighting Search Words................. 19
Reading Footnotes and
Cross-References............................... 20
Getting
Started
Using the
Cookbook
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Contents
Placing Notes...................................... 21
Viewing Notes..................................... 22
Removing Notes ................................. 22
Specifications...................................... 23
Product Care....................................... 23
FCC Notice ......................................... 23
Copyrights, Patents, and ISBN ......... 23
Limited Warranty ................................ 24
Index ................................................... 25
Using Notes
Some screen shots in this User’s Manual
may vary slightly from what you see on
screen. These variations do not mean
that your electronic reference is malfunc-
tioning.
About the
Screen shots
Appendixes
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Key Guide
Function Keys
CLEAR
MENU
NUTR
LIST
INGR
PREV
Clears to the default state.
Shows the menus.
Shows nutrition information for a recipe.
Shows the note list.
Shows the entry screen.
Shows the next match.
Shows the previous match.
Turns the product on or off.
Selects a menu item or makes an entry.
NEXT
ENTER
ON/OFF
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Key Guide
Direction Keys
Backs up a step or erases a letter.
Move in the indicated direction.
Pages down. (At empty entry screen,
lightens the screen contrast.)
Pages up. (At empty entry screen,
darkens the screen contrast.)
Pages down.
Shows a complete menu item at menus,
or shows the outline location of text.
Stands for a series of missing letters.
Shows a help message.
Types an apostrophe.
DN
BACK
SPACE
Other Keys
?
✽
’
HELP
UP
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This product requires two CR2032, 3-volt
batteries. If the batteries are not already
installed, here is how to install them.
1. Turn the product over.
2. Place your thumbs on the arrow.
3. Slide the battery cover off.
4. Install the batteries with their plus
signs facing you.
5. Replace the cover.
The first time you use this product, a brief
demonstration appears automatically. You
may also want to adjust the screen con-
trast. NOTE: You can only adjust the
screen contrast this way if the entry
screen is empty.
1. Press ON/OFF.
2. Press CLEAR to stop the demo.
3. If needed, press UP or DN to
adjust the screen contrast.
Installing
the Batteries
Getting Started
Turning the
Product On
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You probably do not want to view the
demonstration every time you turn this
product on. Here is how to disable it.
1. If not at the menus, press MENU.
2. Press the arrow keys to highlight
the Misc menu.
3. Highlight
Disable Demo .
4. Press ENTER.
Disabling the
Demonstration
Getting Started
✓Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of the screen show
which arrow keys you can press.
✓Help is at Hand
At virtually any screen, you can view an appropriate
help message by pressing HELP. To read the mes-
sage, use the direction keys. To exit help, press BACK.
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Changing
Settings
Getting Started
Using the Misc (Miscellaneous) menu,
you can change the type size, the default
state, the shutoff time, and the screen
contrast.
The default state is the display that ap-
pears when you press CLEAR. The shut-
off time is how long the product stays on
if you forget to turn it off.
1. If not at the menus, press MENU.
2. Highlight the Misc menu.
3. Highlight Set Type Size , Set Default
State
, Set Shutoff , or Set Contrast .
4. Press ENTER.
5. Highlight a setting.
6. Press ENTER to select it.
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Getting Started
Tips for
Beginners Viewing Full Menu Items
Some recipe names and other menu
items are followed by ellipses because
they are too long to fit on one line.
At any highlighted menu item, press
?
to view the complete item.
Where In the Book Am I?
To find out where you are in the cook-
book outline, press
?
while in text.
When you press
?
in text, you do not go
to the outline itself, but rather to a snap-
shot of your outline location. Press BACK
to return to text.
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Using the Cookbook
Searching by
Name To find a recipe, simply type its name at
the entry screen. Some names are com-
mon ones such as roast beef , but others
are more specific and you will need to re-
member at least part of the title to find
the recipe.
1. Press INGR.
2. Type the name of a recipe
(e.g.,
chili con carne ).
To erase a letter, press BACK.
3. Press ENTER.
The matches appear.
4. Press ENTER to select a highlighted
match.
Boxes mark your search words.
5. Press or SPACE to read.
6. Press CLEAR when done.
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This electronic cookbook has a feature that
will help you tailor recipes to the ingredi-
ents you have on hand. For instance, if you
have eggs, cheese, and almonds, enter
them to find recipes including all three in-
gredients.
1. Press INGR.
2. Type up to three ingredients
(e.g., eggs cheese almonds ).
NOTE: You don’t have to type capitals
or punctuation.
3. Press ENTER.
4. Press ENTER to view the recipe.
Searching by
Ingredients
Using the Cookbook
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Using the Cookbook
Searching by
Ingredients
cont.
5. Press then to read.
6. Press NEXT repeatedly to view the
next match.
7. Press CLEAR when done.
✓Adding More Ingredients
If you want to add ingredients to those you have
already entered, first press MENU, then select
Change
Search Words
under Search and type more ingredients.
Then press ENTER to search for all the ingredients.
✓Choosing Search Words
You can search for almost any word in this cookbook.
It need not be an ingredient. If you want to find a recipe
that is cooked in a wok, enter wok at the search line.
You will find nine matches.
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Using the Cookbook
✓ Expanding Your Searches
After entering search word(s), you can expand a word
search to find more matches.
When you expand a search, you will find your search
word(s) first in names, then in text. For example, if you
search for eggs you will find 50 matches most of which
have the word
egg in the recipe name. Press ENTER
to go to the text of a match and press Mfor more.
Now there are 248 matches for
egg . The cookbook
has found every place where egg appears in the book.
✓The Clock and Sheaf of Wheat
Some of the recipes have a clock and/or a sheaf of
wheat symbol next to their names. The clock means
this recipe can be completed in thirty minutes or less.
The sheaf of wheat identifies a Betty Crocker heritage
recipe, one that has been consistently popular, con-
stantly in demand and featured in a previous edition of
Betty Crocker’s Cookbook .
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Using the Cookbook
Text Search
Tips Remaining Matches Are in Index
When you come to the end of a list of
matches, you will often see the words
Remaining matches are in Index . To view
these matches, press MENU and highlight
the Index menu. The Index now lists only
the topics that include your search words.
Press ENTER to select a highlighted topic.
If You Misspell a Word
Don’t worry. A list of corrections appears.
Highlight a correction, and then press
ENTER. Or press BACK to change your
search.
If you don’t know how to spell a word, type
the letters you do know and then type and
asterisk at the end. Then press ENTER.
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Using the Cookbook
Searching by
Category Another way to find recipes is to use the
Contents menu. You’ll find categories of
foods such as
Appetizers , Cookies ,
Meats , and Sauces , to name a few.
1. Highlight
Recipe Categories on the
Contents menu.
2. Press ENTER to select it.
3. Select a category (e.g., pasta ).
You can type the category or scroll
down to highlight it.
4. Select a recipe (e.g., spaetzle ).
5. Press or SPACE to read.
6. Press BACK to go back.
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Finding
Nutrition
Information
Using the Cookbook
You can find valuable nutrition information
about each recipe listed. Included are the
calorie, fat gram, protein counts, and more.
1. Find or select a recipe (e.g.,
pesto ).
2. Press NUTR while the recipe is in view.
3. Press or SPACE to read.
4. Press BACK or NUTR to return to the
recipe.
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Viewing
Special Helps
Using the Cookbook
You will find the answers to many of your
cooking questions in
Special Helps . They
contain a wealth of information about
anything from
Table Settings and Enter-
taining to Substitutions for Emergencies .
1. Find or select Special Helps from
the Contents menu.
The indicates subtopics.
2. Select a topic (e.g., microwave
cooking
).
3. Select a subtopic (e.g., safety ).
4. Press or SPACE to read.
5. Press BACK repeatedly to back up.
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Using the Cookbook
Using
the Index You can use the Index to quickly find
recipes, ingredients, and other topics.
Simply type a topic at the Index menu.
Usually you need to type only its first few
letters.
1. Highlight the Index menu.
2. Start typing a topic (e.g.,
beverages ).
3. Press ENTER to select it.
4. Select a subtopic or recipe.
5. Press BACK to back up.
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Using the Cookbook
Highlighting
Search Words You can also search for a word by high-
lighting it in text. You can pick and search
for any word except short, common ones
such as
the and and .
1. Find or select a recipe (e.g.,
london
broil
).
2. Press ENTER to start the highlight.
You can press BACK to turn the
highlight off.
3. Press the arrow keys to highlight
steak .
4. Press ENTER to view its first match.
5. Press ENTER to view its recipe or
NEXT to view the next match.
6. Press CLEAR when done.
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Using the Cookbook
Reading
Footnotes
and Cross-
References
References appear throughout the text.
Their places are marked by these symbols.
cross-reference
footnote
Here is how to view them.
1. At text with a or , press
ENTER to start the highlight.
2. Highlight the symbol.
3. Press ENTER.
NOTE: ’s take you to the
cross-referenced text.
4. Press BACK to return to the text.
5. Press BACK again to turn off the
highlight.
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