For my wedding shower in 1974 my mother gave me two cookbooks: a 1972 Betty Crocker and a 1973 Better Homes and Gardens. Gosh I made tons of stuff out of those two books over the years. Now they are all spattered and worn. Then in the 80's I got a hankerin' for some real comfort food. I found a 1950 Betty Crocker Picture cookbook at some garage sale or estate sale and a 1953 BH&G. The cool thing about the BH&G book is that the lady who owned it also subscribed to the magazine for years and cut out the recipes from the magazine each month that were to be added to the cookbook. I still cook from my Betty Crocker (70's with it's harvest gold, avoacado green, coppertone and burnt orange). No one can cook like Betty. Oh wait-I can! Heidi