{"id":1318,"date":"2013-04-11T06:56:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2025-02-24T09:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:35:47","slug":"250-cookbooks-pillsburys-bake-off-recipes-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"250 Cookbooks: Pillsbury’s Bake-Off Recipes 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cookbook #27:<\/strong> Pillsbury\u2019s 14th Grand National Bake-Off Cookbook<\/em>. From Pillsbury, 1963.<\/p>\n

\"Bake-Off<\/a>This is another of my mother’s Bake-Off Cookbooks. So far I’ve done two Bake-off years: 1964<\/a> (Cookbook #4) and 1959<\/a> (Cookbook #10). I refer you to the 1964 blog post for a more thorough discussion of these booklets and an explanation of Mother’s rating system for recipes.<\/p>\n

In one of the bake-off cookbooks I found a favorite recipe that I had copied for myself after I left home: Angel Squares<\/a> in the 1964 booklet. And in the odd Spry booklet<\/a> I found (and scanned) the recipe for Tom Thumb Bars. So as I page through this booklet, I wonder if I will find another old favorite . . .<\/p>\n

Here are the recipes Mother marked as tried: Lemon Luscious Pie, Caramel-Nut Surprise Pie (“kinda rich”), Treasure Chest Bars (with a note to check out the Jim Dandies in the 10th Bake-off<\/a>), Bake and Slice Chocolate Swirls, Butterscotch Best Cake, Apple-Scotch Cake, English Toffee Cake, Cherry Streusel Special, Sunshine Dream Bars . . .\u00a0 Fudge Nut Layer Bars<\/em> \u2026 I know those! Mother called them “Fudge Nut Bars”, and they are one of my favorite cookies. I have the recipe on a card! Here is the original:<\/p>\n

\"Fudge<\/a>One recipe is marked as double-underlined “delicious!” by none other than: me! The recipe is for “Chocolate Coated Macaroon Bars”. I seem to remember making a cookie that tastes just like a Mounds Bar<\/a>, and I think this must be the recipe.<\/p>\n

\"Chocolate<\/a>

I wrote the “delicious!” on this recipe decades ago (it was my mother’s booklet, but the handwriting is mine).<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m tempted to try the recipe for “Cheeseburger Casserole”. In it a mixture of hamburger, tomato soup, peas, and onions is topped with chunky-cheese-filled homemade biscuits. What great comfort food! Maybe some day when I hanker for a guilty pleasure I’ll make it for dinner. But not this week. In case you want to try it, here is the recipe:<\/p>\n

\"Cheeseburger<\/a>

The biscuits on top have large chunks of cheese baked right in them!<\/p><\/div>\n

For this current blog entry, I decide to try the “Bake and Slice Chocolate Swirls”.<\/p>\n

\"Chocolate<\/a>\"Chocolate<\/a>Bake and Slice Chocolate Swirls<\/h2>\n

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