Recipes for beef and barley soups are cookbook staples, found in comprehensive cookbooks like “Joy of Cooking,” Betty Crocker’s “The Big Red Cookbook,” and “Better Homes and Gardens ...

Jan. 1—Here's a name familiar to anyone who has ever stepped into a kitchen, puzzled over a recipe or wanted to bake an easy cake or a quick batch of brownies: Betty Crocker. Even at the age of ...

There is a video on YouTube from 1945 that shows her mixing up a white cake, very precisely ( www.youtube.com). Vintage 1950 Betty Crocker Cookbook ... Stir in rhubarb. Pour over baked layer ...