Betty Crocker

[Stonedfish]

I’m going through some of my mom’s old stuff that ended up at my house and came across this.
This 1983 “new and revised edition” ninth printing is now 42 years old.
It looks like the first printing was 1969.
SF

 

[speyflyfisher]

Got the very same one

 

[Lake flyer]

My mom got me one and the Goodhouskeeping cookbook when I moved out of the house. I still have them both.

 

[ffb]

Pretty sure every single meal I ate at home growing up came out of my mom's copy of this

 

[Buzzy]

53 years ago my mom hosted a wedding reception for my wife and I. Long time family friends gave us this one:



I still use it from time to time as does my wife.

 

[Eastside]

53 years ago my mom hosted a wedding reception for my wife and I. Long time family friends gave us this one:

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I still use it from time to time as does my wife.

;we have that one as well.

 

[Gary Knowels]

I had an original Betty Crocker cookbook that I inherited from my grandmother via my mom. Unfortunately, it met it's demise in a college party...

 

[Matt B]

I had an original Betty Crocker cookbook that I inherited from my grandmother via my mom. Unfortunately, it met it's demise in a college party...

Need more details, or we are gonna have to fill in the blank ourselves about the sick, depraved things that you and your housemates did to that poor Betty Crocker…cookbook.

 

[Fourbtgait]

Need more details, or we are gonna have to fill in the blank ourselves about the sick, depraved things that you and your housemates did to that poor Betty Crocker…cookbook.

My mother had given me one of the ring Betty Crocker cook books before leaving home. Moved back a couple years later, left it there, forgot about it. Fast forward 10 years, remembered it was there, right by her older one. Pulled it out, hmmmm, something in it. Damn, pair of hemo stats and a big roach.

 

[Brute]

Someone gifted me Julia Childs Mastering The Art Of French Cooking over 30 years ago...it got lost while moving from Hawaii to WA a decade ago...speaking of which, the movie Julie and Julia is about a blogger who attempts to cook all 524 recipes in the cookbook in one year...interesting if you like to cook.

 

[Mossback]

Saw the movie, enjoyed it.

We had that cookbook growing up, and a BHG one too.

I got The New Basics by Rosso and Lukins 35 years ago, lots of stuff, lots of ideas for me.
It's now stained and dog-eared from use.

Would recommend...

My Mom put together all our favorite recipes from growing up into a cookbook 30 years ago, dinners, desserts, casseroles...it's a family history of what we ate...lots of memories in it, complete with family pictures over decades. A really good idea if you're looking for something to pass along, I cherish mine.

 

[Gary Knowels]

Need more details, or we are gonna have to fill in the blank ourselves about the sick, depraved things that you and your housemates did to that poor Betty Crocker…cookbook.

Relatively innocuous, someone knocked it into a stoppered sink that ended up half full of food scraps, dirty dishes, and stale cheap beer where it sat unnoticed until the hangover subsided enough for me to clean up my apartment.

 

[Zak]

Betty is fine, but Fannie is my go-to:

 

[Shad]

Love cook books, old and new. Endless ideas for whatever's in your fridge or makes you curious.

Also have my old copy of Larousse Gastronomique for those times when I need to iron the ascot for company (I was a professional cook for a decade or so). Those recipes are mostly a pain in the ass for minimal improvements over Betty Crocker, but it looks cool on my shelf.

 

[Shad]

Relatively innocuous, someone knocked it into a stoppered sink that ended up half full of food scraps, dirty dishes, and stale cheap beer where it sat unnoticed until the hangover subsided enough for me to clean up my apartment.

Any well-used cookbook is dirty and has the binding falling apart. Mark of a true (messy) cook.

 

[Gary Knowels]

Any well-used cookbook is dirty and has the binding falling apart. Mark of a true (messy) cook.

Oh, you can tell which recipes I make the most by which pages have more drops, smudges, and water damage.

In this case, the entire book was soaked with beer and all the pages stuck together and ripped themselves into pieces

 

[Shad]

Oh, you can tell which recipes I make the most by which pages have more drops, smudges, and water damage.

In this case, the entire book was soaked with beer and all the pages stuck together and ripped themselves into pieces
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Sub-Zero had the coolest fatality attack for sure. Loved the grappling thing he used, too. "Cummere!"

 

[Brute]

Love cook books, old and new. Endless ideas for whatever's in your fridge or makes you curious.

Also have my old copy of Larousse Gastronomique for those times when I need to iron the ascot for company (I was a professional cook for a decade or so). Those recipes are mostly a pain in the ass for minimal improvements over Betty Crocker, but it looks cool on my shelf.

That's an old book...