There is a video on YouTube from 1945 that shows her mixing up a white cake, very precisely ( www.youtube.com). Vintage 1950 Betty Crocker Cookbook found with Neil Hunt, A-Z Collectibles.

Betty Crocker has ... of unexpected ingredients-- to cookbooks for anyone who has ever stepped into a U.S. supermarket. However, there's one fact about Ms. Crocker that you may not know.

Not only did that bring back memories of my early cooking days and her classic, red "Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook," but I ... and led the development of the white cake mix.