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from the Betty Crocker Kitchens in Golden Valley. . .to yours
Did you know that Martha
Washington wub ihe first lady to
serve Boston Cream Pie? (That's
why some people rail it Washington
Cream Pie.) She dreamed it up her
self, and had it served the first time one night when Thomas
Jefferson came to dinner. We think it's fun to decorate it on
Washington's birthday with maraschino cherries. You just
make your Boston Cream Pie from the Betty Crocker mix and
drop halved, drained maraschino cherries on top to make a
little hatchet, if youVe feeling mischievous!
Such a month for parties! Such a month for children!
With Valentine's Day and Lincoln's birthday and Washing
ton's birthday and only twenty days of school!
We've been like children out of school ourselves, these past
few weeks, thinking about things you might like to make and
do and decorate for your sweethearts, big and little.
But I don't suppose we've been as excited about any
thing as about our new Butterfudge goodies. (Made with
rich, dark chocolate and real butter. Just the way men
like them, if we can judge by the way our men keep find
ing excuses to drop into the kitchens to taste them!)
We only have room to give you one recipe here for Butter
fudge Cooky Pie. (The cooky crust has chocolate and butter
in it. And you pat it in the pan instead of rolling it out, so it's
extra-easy to do.)
But you'll find a folderful of Butterfudge recipes in the Gold
Medal Flour sack this month . .". tells you how to make Butter
fudge Cake and Butterfudge TartB and Butterfudge Mallow
Cake and Butterfudge Fingers and Butterfudge Pecan Pie.
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TWO NEW ANGELS 1 Here's some news we're excited about.
Two brand-new flavors in our Betty Crocker Angel Cake Mixl
There's Fudge Swirl, with the finest imported cocoa threading
through the snowy, melt-in-your-mouth white angel cake. And
there's Orange Pineapple, which we think you're going to love.
More news: All the Betty Crocker Angel Cake Mixes are
being made from a new recipe that lets you mix them right in
the mixer instead of folding in Ihe whites "by hand"!
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NEWS OF THE MONTH -Butterfudge Cooky Pie! This is our Valentine to those families of yours who
just can't get enough chocolate. It's an ice cream pie with a pat-in-the-pie-pan cooky crust made with chocolate and butter.
Here's the recipe: h cup toft butter, 4 cup sifted confectioner' tugar, Vfc ' vanilla, 1 cup sifted GOLD MEDAL
Flour, Vb tsp. tall, 2 $q. temi-iweet chocolate (2 o.), melted, 1 qt. butler, pecan ice cream, fudge lauce. Mix butter,
sugar and vanilla thoroughly. Sift flour and salt. Add to butter mixture and blend. Add melted chocolate and blend well.
Chill SO to 45 min. Heat oven to 400 (mod. hot). Pat dough in 9" ungreased pie pan. Flute edge. Prick. Bake 10 to 12
min. Cool. lust before serving, fill with spoonfuls'of ice cream and top with fudge sauce.
We think one of the nicest
Valentines you can bake is a big
heart cake. You make it with your
favorite Betty Crocker layer cake
mix, but you bake one layer in an 8" round pan and one layer
in an 8" square pan. Then you cut the round cake in two and
put it together with the square cake . . . the way it shows in the
diagram. It really says, "I love you," the way we've decorated
it here with Betty Crocker Fluffy White Frosting for the icing
and tinted Fluffy White for the trim. (We got fancy and deco
rated it a little more with a cupid's arrow made out of a plus
tic straw!)
Hearts, hearlt, hearU . . . little
heart-tart-shells, made with Betty
Crocker Pie Crust Mix. (It's instant
mixing, you know.) You fill them with
creamed chicken, or cherry pie filling,
or lust anything you please. Heat the
oven to 475 (very hot). Then make
your pastry lust the way it tells you
on Ihe Betty Crocker Pie Crust Mix box (for a two-crust
pie). Divide into 6 equal parts. Put one piece on a 7" square
of foil. Roll out pastry circle to the edges of the paper. Use a
paper pattern and cut a heart out of the foil and pastry with
your scissors. Shape the pastry and foil into a heart-shaped
shell, turning up Ihe edges about J" and fluting them. Prick
bottom of tart. Repeat with other 5 pieces of pastry. Bake
8 to 10 min. on a baking sheet. Cool and remove foil.
BY THE WAY. . . I've been meaning to
tell you how much your letters mean to
us here in Golden Valley. We answer
every one of them, of course. But so
many of you have written to ask us about
baking bread that I thought I ought to
tell you about a little 12-page booklet
our Gold Medal girls have prepared, that
tells you exactly how to do it. It's called
"BREADS YOU BAKE .. .with Yeast," and if you'd like to
have it, we'll send it to you. It has pictures that show you
every step in breadmaking. Lots of "special recipes, too. For
Rye Bread and French Bread and Danish Pastry and all kinds
of rolls as well ob good, plain homemade bread. If you'd like
to have it, just write to me Betty Crocker, Golden Valley,
Dept. 670, 9200 Wayzala Blvd., Minneapolis 26, Minnesota. We'H
be more than happy to send it to you.
We're working on some really exciting things to tell you about
next month. Until then ... be our Valentine . . . and ,
There's always something new from Belly Crocker