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641.5 22TX714.C7515 2005The Betty Crocker Cookbook is a written by staff at, the holders of the trademark. The persona of Betty Crocker was invented by the Washburn-Crosby Company (which would later become General Mills) as a feminine 'face' for the company's public relations. Early editions of the cookbook were ostensibly written by the character herself.More than 75 million copies of the book have been sold since it was first published in 1950.

Owing to the dominant color of the book's covers over the years, the Betty Crocker Cookbook is familiarly referred to as 'Big Red', a term that General Mills has. Contents.History Early media forays for the Betty Crocker character included Betty Crocker Cooking School of the Air broadcast from radio station beginning in 1924, and several cooking pamphlets such as 'Betty Crocker's 101 Delicious Creations As Made And Served by Well-Known Gracious Hostesses'. The character was so successful that in 1945 magazine named her the second most popular woman in the, after.

Betty Crocker Cookbook 1976 Edition For Sale

The same article exposed Crocker as 'a fake', though to little apparent effect. By the early 1950s, General Mills surveys showed that 99% of American housewives were familiar with the character.First published on September 8, 1950 with an initial print run of 950,000 copies, as Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, the first edition sold for $2.95, with a $3.95 deluxe edition available. The book's launch was heavily promoted by General Mills, with ample time devoted to it on the Betty Crocker's Magazine of the Air radio program and advertisements in magazines such as, which emphasized that over $100,000 had been spent developing the book's 'revolutionary' recipes.

The 2161 recipes for the book were developed by a team of 50 chefs at the General Mills test kitchens, supervised by the. The book was an immediate best-seller and contemporary reviews were positive; the declared it the best general cookbook ever published, and noted that its sales of 18,000 copies a week were several times that of the most recent novel.The original 1950 edition assumed very little knowledge on the part of the reader. The book made extensive use of photography and charts to make its techniques accessible to beginning cooks. It featured an extensive glossary that explained cooking terminology and in addition to recipes it offered instructions for using then-new appliances such as. With the and due to the Second World War in the very recent past, the book contains instructions for preparing, a food that rural Americans resorted to in lean times. In, where food rationing continued for many years after the end of the war, the publication of the cookbook created a popular vision of the United States as a land of inexhaustible resources.The book's advice extends beyond the kitchen as well: the 1961 edition includes an exhortation to comb one's hair and apply make-up before breakfast each day. Recipes for cake using Betty Crocker-brand cake mixes were a staple of early editions of the book.The recipes in the first edition are 'basic' according to a modern review, and many are 'grossly outdated'; there are several recipes for and an 'international' recipe for 'Spaghetti Oriental'.

A recipe for tuna and pie from a 1965 cookbook was featured in a of 'truly upsetting vintage recipes'. The 12th edition (subtitled 'Everything You Need to Know to Cook From Scratch') was published in October 2016 and features more contemporary cuisine; there are recipes for beef,. An entire chapter is devoted to cuisine.The Betty Crocker Cookbook is now the flagship book of what has become a large collection of books printed under the Betty Crocker name.Editions The Betty Crocker Cookbook is available in binder, and comb-bound formats, as well as several special-interest formats such as bridal, heart health, and a fundraising edition. Mobile apps for and are available to access the Betty Crocker recipe database on the web.The Betty Crocker cookbook series includes more than 250 different books published since 1950 on subjects such as cooking basics, entertaining, as well as Betty Crocker: Kids Cook, first published in 1957 as Betty Crocker’s Cook Book for Boys and Girls.

In 1980, following broadening American tastes, Betty Crocker cookbooks based around international cuisine started to appear, such as the bilingual English/Spanish Cocina Betty Crocker (a guide), Betty Crocker's Chinese Cookbook, Betty Crocker's Indian Home Cooking, and others. The current range of cookbooks features over twenty different books.The original 1950 edition and the Betty Crocker Cooky Book have been reprinted as facsimiles.Feminist perspectives It is commonly asserted that the primary purpose of the Betty Crocker Cookbook is to sell pre-packaged Betty Crocker-brand ingredients, which are specified in the book's recipes. The culinary historian does not dispute this, but suggests that the relative ease of making a partially pre-packaged cake recipe from the cookbook empowered women to experiment and to view cooking as a creative outlet, which in turn helped housewives of the 1950s begin to see as a respectable profession unto itself. See also., a near-contemporary popular cookbookReferences.

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