Collection of Vintage Betty Crocker Easter Recipes

Ready for Easter? Let vintage Betty Crocker help! 

Did your mom make an egg tree? 

 

Betty Crocker and Norman Rockwell

I've been looking at old radio scripts from some of Betty Crocker's numerous radios shows. Cooking School of the Air wasn't her only show. Mercy me, no. (as Grandma would say) This one is fantastic, she was interviewing Norman Rockwell. He would go on to paint a portrait of Betty that was not ultimately chosen. I write about it in my book, Finding Betty Crocker.
 

Let them Bake Cake, The Food that Built America on the History Channel, Season 5, episode 5

Production stills from the Let them Bake Cake episode on The Food that Built America on the History Channel. Literally the hottest set I've ever been on. But I survived and also survived being stranded in NJ because no planes could fly in the storms and then all the flights were booked up for 2 days. Met someone really cool on the way home and we became friends. It was quite the adventure. 

Author Susan Marks - behind the scenes of The Food that Built America

Author Susan Marks - behind the scenes of The Food that Built America

A friend of mine sat down to watch TV with her family the other day and was shocked to see me on her favorite show, let alone find out that I wrote a book on Betty Crocker. I think Betty is so much a part of me that I forget to tell people who didn't know me back when the book and the documentary film on Betty came out. 

Also, I think people associate me more with my documentary on The Nutshells Studies of Unexplained Death, John Waters and Frances Glessner Lee rather than Betty. Still, it's nice to work on many interesting projects. If you want to know more please visit my website.

Vintage Betty Crocker Commercial

A perfect cake every time you bake -- cake after cake after cake. The woman who portrayed Betty Crocker on TV and radio (one of the voices behind Betty) was Adelaide Hawley - a woman worthy of her own documentary. Read about her.