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Boxed cake mix is truly the unsung hero of the baking aisle. It's convenient, reliable and cost-effective. Almost all cake mixes only require three additional ingredients: water, oil and eggs.
General Mills single-handedly made chiffon cake into one of the most ubiquitous desserts of the 1950s, buying the recipe and even sponsoring contests devoted solely to this light and airy favorite.
2. Angel Food Cake. Angel food cake is as light and fluffy as cake can get, and we have fond memories of Grandma serving it with whipped cream and fresh berries for a luscious summertime dessert.
Recipe Grand Prize Winner/City 1949 No-Knead Water-Rising Twists Theodora Smafield (Detroit, MI) 1950 Orange Kiss-Me Cake Lily Wuebel (Redwood City, CA) 1951 Starlight Double-Delight Cake Helen Weston (La Jolla, CA) 1952 Snappy Turtle Cookies Beatrice Harlib (Chicago, IL) 1953 "My Inspiration" Cake Lois Kanago (Weber, SD) 1954 Open Sesame Pie
Recipes for cake using Betty Crocker-brand cake mixes were a staple of early editions of the book. [6] The recipes in the first edition are "basic" according to a modern review, and many are "grossly outdated"; there are several recipes for hamloaf and an "international" recipe for "Spaghetti Oriental". [12]
Betty Crocker is a cultural icon, as well as brand name and trademark of American Fortune 500 corporation General Mills. The name was first developed by the Washburn ...
Brand Name Banquet. Recipes from brand name companies often get a bad rap. But many people learned to cook from the backs of boxes, bottles, and jars, especially in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s when ...
According to General Mills, Bisquick was invented in 1930 after one of their top sales executives met an innovative train dining car chef, [1] on a business trip. After the sales executive complimented the chef on his deliciously fresh biscuits, the dining car chef shared that he used a pre-mixed biscuit batter he created consisting of lard, flour, baking powder and salt.