There were several “Bettys” over the years. I think there were women who were hired to be the face of Betty & many more “invisible” Bettys who answered the mail as Betty.
Hi Anna. Love love you. I am living vicariously through you. I am 86 and have been a foodie all my life. In my youth my idols were Betty Crocker and. Local Seattle woman Bea Donovan who was the first women to have her own cooking show on tv circa 1950. I also have collected cookbooks. I had to downsize a few years ago so thank you for sharing yours with me. Wish we could just sit down and visit sometime!😊❤️😸Marie Cory
My mom tried the bisquick tortillas once with her kindergarteners. I was there but all I remember about that experiment was several mothers of her Hispanic kindergarteners coming in after school a few days later to teach her how to make tortillas.
Oh my goodness! The French Breakfast Puffs are a huge childhood memory for me! I pulled out my copy of my mom's recipe & it is identical to these. I have written on my recipes where (& who if possible) they are from. Someone had given it to Mom in Omaha, NE so it. would have been '64-'68. I remember so vividly being in the kitchen while Mom baked these & rolling them in the butter & cinnamon sugar. I can even taste them & that little crunch... OK. Now I need to make these.
My mom also made the puffs. So much fun helping her roll them in the cinnamon sugar. She would add extra cinnamon to the batter. Family was from Nebraska also
My 34 year old nephew makes the French puff muffins. It was a treat that his mother made for him when he was a boy. She got the recipe from her grandmother. They are from Missouri.
When I was newly married I went through a matchy-matchy phase, we bought at the height of a housing shortage and our house was super ugly with a weird floor plan so in an effort to put lipstick on that pig, I went ultra modern. We were able to sell it at a nice profit and moved cross country to a huge 1860 brick farmhouse with a wonderful floor plan. So all my modern sleek kitchen stuff is in our barn, still in moving boxes as I scour antique and vintage shops for vintage bakeware! Your collection is beautiful and quite impressive. It seems to me that everything looks more appetizing in old Pyrex! Thank you so much for your great videos!❤
I discovered your channel about two months ago and have binged watched all the episodes and have enjoyed every single one . I love your realness and overall attitude about life. Keep being you, you’re great.
In 51yrs I Never Knew There Was No Real Betty. Oh Wow How Sad. I Will Have To Process This For Some Time. Lol I Am Blessed To Have My Nanny's Dishes And Books. All My Love!
I love that you have a Saugatuck shirt on. I was just there last month. It's such a beautiful place. I love their kitchen store! I have a friend who lives in the area. I'll be heading back at the end of June, and I'm so excited! I absolutely love watching your videos. I collect any cookbooks I can get my hands on. Keep the great content coming!
French breakfast puffs are in my 80s cookbook I learned to cook out of. I used to make them all the time! They were always a hit when I'd bake a batch and take them to my D&D group on Saturdays
My mom gave me four Blue Heaven plates and a matching serving bowl to help me set up my household when I was first married 54 years ago. We still eat off the three plates that have survived and the bowl has a chip in it but we still use that too. I think she got them at some kind of supermarket give away as she always used Fiesta Ware for our everyday dishes. My kids always referred to them as the Jetson Plates and we call them that to this day, lol!
Hi Anna! I’d like this breakfast too! Scrambled eggs are so yummy and I can’t wait to try those. And I love your reviews of the books and all their pictures. If you want to do a Cinco de Mayo vlog with 1960’s recipes, that would be so much fun. We love Bisquick here but haven’t tried a tortilla 🧡
I love your posts every week. They are so fun, but also I love seeing which of the lovely Pyrex vintage piece you will use! I collect Pyrex, vintage cookware, and vintage cookbooks so your channel is a gold mine!! Thank you, Anna! (You would love the cake release paste!! Life changing) ****P.S.*** Did you see that your tiny lemon juicer is at Aldi this week??
I’d like to try the peaches recipe but using sliced peaches. Peach halves can be kind of slippery. Would be great with a squirt of canned whipped cream!
1, i love love pink puffy heart LOVE Betty and her cook books, real or not. Kinda like Suzzie Homemaker 😅. I love all of your videos!!! Please keep posting darlin, you make my hard/bad days better ❤❤❤❤❤❤ thank you so very much and God bless 🙏 😊
Hi Anna! I love all the recipes! The French Breakfast Puffs look so delish!!😊 I'm definitely going to make them and the Buffet Eggs! I am looking forward to your next video with another great cookbook and recipes!❤
We used to make breakfast rolls from pop-open bisuits. Just take one, roll it in melted butter, then roll it in cinnamon sugar. Put them in a muffin tin and bake till brown. They weren't too bad.
When I was a very small child, my mother made doughnuts from my grandmother's recipe. I adored those doughnuts! They were just fried--no sugar or icing, but the nutmeg in the batter was terrific. In my late teens, I asked if we could have them. Sadly, Mom said that a key rising ingredient had been discontinued. I've never been the same 😢
I never knew this, but the alternating of the flour and the milk into the sugar mix is to keep the sugar mix from breaking. At least that’s what happened on the Anti Chef YT channel earlier today. It’s nice to know there’s a good reason.
If I can get a cookbook with the spiral binding I am happy to pay extra. So nice. I had this cookbook years ago, but it went during a cookbook purge. I really have to do that periodically, as I have a problem with cookbooks…
Oh thanks for mentioning breakfast wraps. Never thought of dried beef with eggs. Was thinking of this as a change-up for breakfast for dinner then you mentioned the wraps. We do lots of those and sandwiches for the boys to go with and this would make a wonderful change for them
These all looked good. A few years ago I made a recipe called pumpkin donut muffins, from a Martha Stewart recipe webpage. They were rolled in cinnamon and sugar too. Very tasty as I remember them.
When you said that you liked them donuts cold or a day old, it reminded me of when they say to wait a while to cut home made bread, I think it's a science thing to it.
Very fun video. I love both Good & Easy cookbooks that you have cooked from. I often look thru them to find meal suggestions. The suggested meals are so wonderful. All three recipes you made look great. I love that you equated Betty to Santa. She is real to me too.
You may be interested in this short documentary on YT about Barbara Jo Davis, a black woman who was a 'Betty Crocker' - Being Black and Betty Crocker: Making Black History at General Mills.
Yes, yes, yes tortillas with Bisquick. I'm 72 i made these years ago. I bought a Betty Crocker 50 year Creative Recipes with Bisquick cookbook it had recipe for tortillas.i made often back them,. I lived with my mother and she didn't like tortillas but she like the Bisquick ones I made. They were strange shaped, but good. I enjoy your video's and your talks after about the cookbooks
The breakfast puffs... they look so good!!! I think I'd just butter n sugar the tops of them though... less mess, same flavor.. And yes, those eggs just scream breakfast wrap! Thanx for two more great ideas!!!
My local supermarket sells deep-fried cinnamon rolls. They’re Finnish style cinnamon rolls (korvapuusti, a little ”drier” compared to American cinnamon rolls, and uniced) deep-fried and coated in cinnamon sugar. I’ve gotten them maybe once out of every ten times I’ve wanted them 😂
Do you have the book “Best Recipes on the backs of boxes , bottles , cans” my mom gave it to me when I was a young mother in the 1980’s. Some of the best recipes
My favorite spice bread uses mace. It's great in a spice bread! I get the recipe for the bread (for like many years) from the World of Warcraft: The Official Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel. I'm not a Warcraft person, but I absolutely love that woman's books and blog. She has an excellent ribs recipe in there too. Oh, and a bacon-y meatball appetizer that's killer. Highly recommend.
Oh my....when you mentioned cider doughnuts if got me wondering if you could substitute cider for the milk, add cinnamon, clove and make apple cider breakfast puffs? I bet they'd be heavenly.
I love your videos. Thanks. I recall a lady who does the very old recipes, and i think she tries to make her meals the same way as in that era. It was a 1940's one. I can't find her RU-vid channel now. Have you seen her vids?
You might be thinking of Sage Lilleyman. I know she was finishing up her nursing degree and recently moved, so she hasn’t posted in a bit. Her videos are wonderful!
For the peaches, I might mix nutmeg and cinnamon to sprinkle over, more like peach cobbler-esque. Gosh I just love watching your videos! Some are nostalgic, some give me great ideas to mix up the regular weekday meals, and some I use for decadent weekend treats. The only problem is I walk away hungry after watching.
This was another fun video, thank you! But I'm a bit disappointed in Betty. She wasn't completely honest. (Shocking! lol) My mom made French Breakfast Puffs occasionally for a special breakfast treat throughout my childhood from her 1956 copy of the big Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook which also has super cool graphics and lovely menus. So much for it being 'new'. Tsk, tsk Betty! Wish I could find a good quality vintage muffin tin to send you...your vintage muffin recipes would come out shaped better. Modern muffin tins are larger than vintage. Somehow they got super sized---never mind actual jumbo muffin tins. Hoping to see those brownies sometime. Browned butter makes baked goods so much fancier! Thanks for the fun and inspiration, Anna.
I am a confirmed nutmeg hater, so I wouldn't use it or mace for the peaches. I think cinnamon would work instead. I really liked the way they're prepared.
Hi Anna! I am an American living in Europe and have no access to shortening here. They use lard, suet and butter here so could I substitute one of these for the shortening? Which would be the best sub? Thanks for the help!
Can someone tell me what dried beef is please? Is it just beef jerky? I’ve never heard of this before and I’m curious what it is and where to find it if it’s not jerky
Coming in a little early to comment, but, that is the coolest hand mixer I have ever seen. The almighty algorithm brought me here, and I am really glad it did. You have a great channel.
Hello and WELCOME! So glad to have you here. ❤ My hand mixer is the Breville Handy Mix: amzn.to/43Nth6G I have had it for almost a year now and can confidently say it's the BEST hand mixer I have ever owned.
I love new breakfast ideas! Breakfast is my favorite meal. I just saw a video onTasting History with Max Miller, he explains the back story of Betty Crocker. I knew she wasnt a " real" person, but, I didn't know the details.
I used to have that cookbook as a young wife and mother. I made many many wonderful meals from that book. There was a recipe in the book called Beef Burger Specials that my husband loved. This brings back some great memories.
