Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls (2003, Hardcover, Spiral)

‘Betty Crocker’s Cookbook for Boys and Girls’, is quite a good vintage cookbook that still has endearing recipes for children today. Originally published in the 1950's and reprinted in the 1960’s and 1970’s, the book includes instructions for basic cooking techniques, measuring, and utensils as well as a selection of recipes in the categories of campfire cooking, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and extra special occasions. The instructions and recipes are basic enough for children to be able to make themselves, with very creative and attractive results. The recipes include mostly common ingredients and there are many illustrations throughout the book to offer creative ideas for making meals, as well as party and display ideas, made from very simple household materials also. There are pages of photographs of many of the finished recipes including, cookies with faces, holiday cakes, long john silver sandwiches, raggedy Ann salad, potato boats and pigs in blankets.

Some of the recipes include:

*Drum Cake
*Extra Special Drinks
*Paintbrush Cookies
*Zoo Cake
*Heart Cake
*Easter Hat Cake
*Eskimo Igloo Cake
*Clown Cup Cakes
*Ice Cream Cone Cakes
*Good Kid Cookies
*Kabobs
*Doughboys
*Eggs in a Frame
*Branded Pancakes
*Pigs In blankets
*Hamburgers
*Breads
*Cereal Faces
*Cheese Dreams
*American Pizza
*Long John Silver Sandwich
*Desserts
*Raggedy Ann Salad
*Three Men in a Boat
*Cookies


(spiral bound 192 pages)