Betty Crocker’s Cook book for Boys and Girls. We had the 1957 edition and when I googled it, found out that edition was reissued in 2003.
https://www.amazon.com/Betty-Crockers-Cook-Book-Girls/dp/B007SRW6DW
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My grandpa’s farmer bible “How to do Things” had the first recipes I ever tried. Corn bread was especially popular. Best book a person can own.
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Is this the book?
There are tons out there. It’s kind of overwhelming! My 1 year old grandson isn’t ready to cook with me yet, but I’ve seen an online magazine called Chop Chop Family that sounds good.
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i had the 1957 version, as well. if i recall, it was spiral-bound. used to make the mac-and-cheese when my mother had my sister’s brownie troop. it was the custard version, with eggs. then we discovered stouffers…
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our Betty Crocker Boys and Girls was spiral-pound. I just ordered the replica copy to evoke memories. I do remember putting round pickle “wheels” on hot dog buns to make them edible vehicles. Well before there was a microwave oven available to “cook” a hot dog in a bun on a paper plate! My dad bought one of the first “radar?range” microwaves when they first came out.
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No kids cookbooks when I was little but mom cooked with the Fannie Farmer cookbook all the time.
I still make the sugar cookies, fudge, banana bread and gingerbread from those recipes.
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My first was also Betty Crocker’s Cookbook for boys & girls. I also read it cover to cover like I do cook books now.
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Timesferd Timer. “you’ll have a fun time , eating sunshine on a stick!”
“Oh, some weekend when it’s raining and your mother is complaining that you’re sitting around just twiddling your thumbs.” I bet if I try I could remember the songs. “but the thing that’s gonna please her is you make it in the freezer with some orange juice and just a few toothpicks.”
Yeah, sunshine on a stick sucks.
Here he is!
“I hanker for a hunk of cheese!.”
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Midwesterner, my Mom was never a really good cook but the dishes she made that I liked the most came out of that old red plaid Better Homes and Gardens cook book. I still remember how excited we would get if she told us she was making Porcupine Balls, which is a BH&G dish.
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That and Schoolhouse Rock. Ah, those were the days.
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Those damn songs still run through my head. “Threee is a magic number, yes it is!” " I’m just a bill and I’m only a bill, and I’m sittin’ here on capitol hill." “Interjections… show excitement… or emotion!”
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“Conjunction junction, what’s your function?”
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“Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.”
Like ZivBnd, I recall BHG magazines on the coffee table and checking out the recipes. I’d find one that looked good and my mom and I would give it a whirl. I’d love to know who made BHG cookware. It was clad stuff that I adore to this day.
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