I received a Girl Scout badge for making dinner one time. The dessert was a pear half made to look like a mouse. My Mom bought a bag of sliced almonds for me to use just 8 slices (4 pairs of mouse's ears). I forget the rest, but I'm still grateful for my family's forebearance that day!
@@cooking_the_books How wonderful! I know you will be a well-loved Auntie. Praying for you, and also your your nephew's parents as they await his arrival, hoping he will arrive healthy and safe.
I am so happy to hear that! At the start of my channel I used to put that part at the beginning of the video. Not everyone loved it and they let me know! 😂
When I was pregnant I had gestational diabetes so on personal pizza night I bought large portobellos and made personal pizza for me with them as my "crust" it was delicious and my kids always turn their personal pizzas into pieces of edible art.
You're one of my favorite channels to watch in the mornings to calm my anxiety because your videos just feels so cozy: your speaking about things you're passionate about, cooking delicious food, set in actual kitchen, the lighting's not too bright, no music. I'm from the other side of the ocean from you but somehow this feels like home. Thank you.
Brings back memories of my first Betty Crocker children’s cookbook. It had a yellow cover. I made sugar cookies for my grandma and she praised them as the best ever. I made her the same cookies every time I visited because believed she really loved them. She probably was sick of them.
My first cookbook was "Teena in the Kitchen". I got it free, by sending the red Pure Cane block from a bag of Imperial sugar, to Imperial Sugar, Sugarland Texas. No street address. I still make things from it.
I feel like that little doggy salad would be pretty cute in a bento box. I bet kids would love a surprise lunch like that. Serving it on top of some cottage cheese would be good.
I also was a child cookbook reader. I would also stare at the photos and try to imagine or interpret them. When I was a kiddo, I also watched PBS cooking shows like Julia child as much as I enjoyed a cartoon, probably more. These are some of my favorite cookbooks and I appreciate the memories and joy your channel brings!
I have four kids three girls and one boy. It’s my son that loves to be in the kitchen. The other night he made a delicious broccoli carrot cheese soup with baked bread. Amazing! His cookies are delicious too.
I need to find a copy of this cook! My 9 year old is the kid that asked for a crockpot for Christmas, she’s going to love trying these recipes you showed!
My first cookbook was called The Magic Spoon and I still have it! Cooking from an early age is great. I hope you and your 9 year-old had a great Christmas! 🎉
I love that. We have a ladder back chair I bought in college in 1979 that one of my cats used as a scratching post. He’s been gone 35+ years and I don’t think we’ll ever get rid of that chair!
Oh my gosh Anna. I didn’t know you had to say goodbye to sweet Dottie. I loved the Dottie breaks in your videos and when she was interested in the cooking. Dogs are the best and so sorry for your loss. 😂❤
Baloney cups?! I’ve never heard that, but I’ve eaten a version called Flying Saucers! Fried baloney curled up on the sides, with a dome of mashed potatoes in the middle, and melted cheddar on top. My favorite lunch from school in the 70s, which I passed along to my son! Flyer saucer night was always a fun night. ❤
Well...not all kids like pitted prunes; in fact, I know more than one who has pitched a wingding about them. In my experience, you can: 1. Tell them OK, remove the prune, and proceed; 2. Sort of lie, and tell them it's not a prune, it's a dried plum. 3. Use a dehydrated apricot, instead. I know a family who, about 6 weeks before Christmas, made the Quick-Energy Pickups with cookie crumbs, with rum added, set them in a container, refrigerated them, and every so often added a couple tablespoons of rum, until Christmas Eve. Kids weren't allowed to eat that batch. 😉 Pizz Burgers- Again, some fussbudget children don't eat olives. Why? Don't know. I have always LOVED olives, black and green, Kalamata, Sicilian, if it's brined, I eat it. Grape tomatoes cut in half work nicely as a substitute. Re: pizza sauce- you can never go wrong with Pastorelli's.
💝I would read my junior cookbook for hours back in the 50s. I loved every recipe my mom let me make. I gave the cookbook you are using today to my children. It has been used to death. Yes, we remember every favorite recipe. So happy to see you cooking from It! A big Thank You! Just wonderful! ❇❇❇
I bought this cookbook online because of you...🙂 I have 2 grandsons and the 10 year old didn't want to share his cookbooks with the younger one. I found a 2nd one at a thrift store! We have made the friendly dog salad and the picky 10 year old ate every bite. You are awesome bringing life to all these cookbooks....especially this one. I'm in love with this cookbook also. The kids will enjoy this video so much.
Well my Granny and Grandma both just taught me to cook from the big cook books. The only thing I never got the hang of was the cooked icing. They didn't believe in treating us kids like kids, they both wanted us to know the reality of what it took to do the cooking. I loved that they both took the time to teach my sister and me to cook. Thanks for sharing and you have a great day
The dog salad brought up some memories of when I was a kid in the 1950’s….I was sick a lot as a kid and my mom would make similar kinds of things to entice me to eat…I remember specifically an animal out of a canned peach half and toast with faces on them (don’t remember the specifics)…Love your channel ! I used to collect cookbooks as well but when I downsized I gave most of them to my Library for their annual book sale. I still like reading cookbooks for pleasure and even if I have read them numerous times that doesn’t mean I won’t read it again! 😎
I love cookbook for kids too. When I was young and fascinated by foods and cooking, the 1965 version was available. I LOVED that book. I had made numerous things from that book - Madhatter’s Meatballs, Spanish Rice, Carrot Curls, and soup combos (canned soup mixed with tomato juice or another canned soup) are things I’ve made and enjoyed. The plain muffin recipe I still make occasionally - plain or I’ll add choc chips. A good recipe that comes out every time. As a kid, cooking was joy and independence for me. Thank you for this video and your joy of that cookbook.
I love how cute these recipes are! Now, personally, I wasn't a kid who wanted to make recipes from books aimed at my age at the time. I was the kid who grabbed the 30 year old community cookbook in my grandma's kitchen and just sally forth in blind optimism and potentially many questions for my grandma. I wanted to make "real food" 😂. My grandmothers started me with cake mixes and instant puddings and boxed mac 'n cheese and then moved me up to stuff that requred a recipe like potato salad (where I learned to boil eggs, boil potatoes, and chop onions) and then later to tgings like hamburger steaks with onions and gravy. Of course, as an adult Im like, "Oh, I want to make all these cute kids recipes!"
My mother used to make that Polka Dot Pizza for my sister and me when we were young, I had forgotten all about it! She'd make a separate pizza for her and my dad with more adult toppings. We loved it.
My sweet cousin gave me the Betty Crocker Cookie Book many years ago. I've used it so much with my kids and grandkuds that it's falling apart. I bought the Boys & Girls Cookbook for my kids and have now passed it down to my daughter for her kids. One of our favorite recipes was the banana bars. They were so good!🍌 We have countless wonderful memories from using these two cookbooks and look forward to making many more.
I just joined your Patreon. I love your channel so much! I feel like I really relate to your interest in all things vintage cooking. I grew up in the midwest in the 1970s obsessed with my mom's 1950s-70s cookbooks, and I would sit in the kitchen and look at them for hours. My mom was an amazing homemaker and taught me so much. My mom now lives with me and will be turning 81 next weekend! We still have all of her cookbooks and vintage Corningware. Now I cook for her! I've told her about your RU-vid channel and have served her several of the dishes you've presented. They all get a thumbs up! 😁
Yay! I picked up this cookbook (1976 print) in spiral form at a thrift store this week for only $1.00. It's in great shape, too. I was so excited. It has children eating brownies on the cover. 🙂
My mom wouldn't either! 😂 When I finally made it as an adult, I can kind of see why. The flaming effect doesn't last very long before it starts to burn the edges of the eggshells!
I never had kids cookbooks . My mom was a single mom of 7 kids and held down 2 jobs so she didn’t encourage me because she wasn’t there if I burned the house down lol but I made sure I sent some of my grandkids their own kids cookbook
This was fun! Don't have kids but have had them over for crafts and lunch. The little pear dog is just too cute. Maybe a little cottage cheese under. But the pizza burgers are great. Older kids could do monster faces, with all eyes and such. You followed the recipe and your eyes fell away. But it's obvious in the beauty photo they put the face on after baking.
You truly buoy me with your genuine heart & emotion for what you do. Your enthusiasm is infectious! And, I have the very same BC Junior Cookbook ❤️❤️. My mom was in food service & loved doing things like that dog salad (& we kids loved eating them!)
I think we made that Ski challet when i was a kid. Probably from the 1975 version. My mom was good about having us help her in the kitchen especially when it came to cookies and Christmas baking. I would have been 8 in 1975.
I grew up with the 1964 version of the Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls, given to me by my mom. I recently gave it to my 10 year old granddaughter... (I sorta wish I had it back!! I loved that book!!) she seems to love it and has made some cute things out of it.
I enjoy these videos and your warm personality so much! These are so fun and you put so much work into filming. I'm so sorry that you had to say goodbye to Dottie, I enjoyed seeing her breaks. Thank you so much for brightening my day!
I love your videos, but this is my favorite so far! I have a copy of the 7th printing (1978) of the 1975 edition. I got it at the book fair in elementary school. The cover is different, but the photos that you showed are the same as my copy. My sister and I made some of the recipes. I always wanted to make the Friendly Dog Salad. I think the reason I didn't was because we never had prunes (shrug). To be honest, I don't remember what we DID make from this cookbook, ( I know I looked through it many, many times) but we definitely did use it, as it is well loved!!
There was a cookbook I found at a college library called The Gut Course in College Cookery. I can't remember the author. It was a good general knowledge about what kind of kitchen equipment to have, how to shop, and how to meal plan. One of the most interesting is that the recipes were written for one or two servings. It was in the late 1980's when I found it.😊
I love this. I miss when kid foods looked like kids made it and not made by a pro. So fun! I love children’s cookbooks too, there is just something special about them.
When I was a child I had that book but the spiral bound version. I think it had a white cover with a drawing of a girl and a boy on it. I remember that they had a recipe for Ants on a Log in it. I used to use that.
This reminds me of a little kids' magazine I used to get with activities, one was Peanut Butter Candy which was just peanut butter, dry milk and honey. I love it! Another month they had us collect little square images to turn into "postage stamps" by brushing on some first-step dissolved Jello powder in hot water.
The snoopy salad is too adorable. The hamburger/pizza faces are also cute. Unfortunately the energy balls with the peanut butter would not be allowed at schools because they think everybody has an allergic has an allergy to peanut butter.
I received this cookbook from my cousin in 1959. This edition is smaller than yours, hard covered and coiled. I spent lots of time looking at it but didn’t make many things out of it. I was a big fan of the Butterscotch Brownies and made those many times. Their pear salad was made into a bunny, 2 raisins for eyes, two blanched almonds for ears, a red gum all for the nose and a cottage cheese ball for the tail. There is also a Raggedy Ann salad using a half canned peach for the body.
I found the video. Looks good! I gave my son who's a chef my mom's copy of the Joy of Cooking which is from the 50's. She loved that. I left the clippings and the coloured Kleenex's marking favourite recipes in it. We haven't had coloured Kleenex in Canada for many decades. @@cooking_the_books
I TOTALLY REMEMBER THAT!🙀I always wanted to make that Snoopy Salad! Don’t think it ever happened, but I think my mom’s chocolate frosting was from that book - big bowl: Yellow on outside,White inside.
FOUR! Four Four COOKBOOKS WE. BOTH HAVE!!!! BWA HA HA HA! Boy did I adore this cookbook and use it regularly as a kid. My cookbook had a different cover, but all the same recipes! I made my poor mother buy all the ingredients for all the different recipes. Does that version of the cookbook have a recipe for fortune cookies? I still use this cookbook. Thank you so much for sharing your love for vintage recipes :D
Oh yay! You made the recipe from the cover photo. Those burgers were just so adorable that I wanted to see them done. In an effort to help my sister in law to get my niece and nephew to eat more vegetables, I made them mini pizzas with a cauliflower crust before. And they really enjoyed those. This recipe is cute and it probably tastes very good the way that it is, but I also feel like it can be customized easily as well.
Love this episode I was a kid in the 90s and remember my mom making some of these. I wish I could see u make a pink azalea cake. I haven't seen someone make that cake since I was a kid.
I had that cookbook also as a kid. Makes me happy to see someone else enjoying it. I'm pretty sure I did make the coconut version of those peanut butter balls. I know I made the baloney cups, the pizza burgers, the watermelon star, and maybe even the ski chalet. Oh and the ghost cake from the other video. And yes, those photos are seared into my brain!
"If your kids wanna help you but maybe they're younger or maybe they're just, like, not used to being in the kitchen yet, it's great that they can just decorate them too. Kinda like, almost like decorating a cookie, but it's not... it's meat... it's not a cookie, but it's still fun, right?" LOL I LOVE your videos!!
When I was a kid back in the 60's, I never had a children's cookbook...I used my mom's Betty Crocker cookbook and her Watkins Cookbook...love your channel...
How cute! I would have loved to have had a children's cookbook as a child. Closest I recall is if there were recipes in the Camp Fire Girl book. If I can find a cute vintage children's cookbook out in the wild I'm going to treat my inner child. Thank you for another fun video. I'll have to try some of these with my grandkids.
I just love your videos! It’s so fun watching someone who loves cookbooks as much as I do. I got this particular book from Scholastic Books in 1978 I think. I have the 1958 and 1965 versions too. Love Betty Crocker books and your channel!❤️
I made a rabbit out of a pear half as a little girl. The pear was the body. It had a cottage cheese tail, raisin eyes, blanched almond ears and a red hot candy nose. My daughters made them for Thanksgiving dinner for years! Good stuff!
I grew up with (and still have) the 1990’s Betty Crocker Kids Cook! cookbook. I haven’t looked at it in years but now I want to dig it out and revisit it. I still make the deviled eggs, although I have the recipe memorized so don’t look at the cookbook for it. The pancakes - made with Bisquick - were the greatest culinary disappointment of my existence, worse even than the time I thought I found a chocolate chip on the floor but it was a piece of dirt. I still don’t trust Bisquick or any recipe that calls for it.
These recipes would be so fun with kids! Also, the plate you put the peanut butter energy bites on brings me back to my childhood in the 1970s…I remember those plates. 😊
