Saturday, September 2, 2023

The amazing history of Betty Crocker

This is way more interesting than you might think.  For example, she got married.  Kind of.

Oh, and there's a recipe here for pineapple upside down cake which looks spectacular.

5 comments:

FeralFerret said...

My mother and her mother always made the pineapple upside down cake in an iron skillet. Works great!

SiGraybeard said...

When we started watching that, the last thing I expected was to watch all of it, but the guy made a good show out of it.

Matthew W said...

My mother still has her Betty Crocker cookbook that was a wedding present in 1959.
Lot's of good basic recipes in there.
Always looking in thrift stores to find a copy.

BobF said...

My mother made the pineapple upside down cake only a few times a year. If she's made it daily there would have none left by each following morning.

One of the very few recipes I am aware of that looked exactly like the picture when done.

glasslass said...

Pineapple upside down cake is my second favorite right behind authentic German chocolate cake. It's the first cake I learned to make. I also received a BC cookbook as a wedding present in 1960 and having never cooked anything it was a godsend. If it hadn't been for Betty I think we might have been eating PB&J that year.