It will be hot and bubbly, like lava, when you take it out of the oven. Evenly spread the crumb mixture over the fruit.Ĩ. Add the softened butter, and mix with a pastry blender until crumbly (or pulse in a food processor).Ħ. (Sometimes I substitute quick cooking rolled oats for the flour, or use a mixture of rolled oats and flour. Mix the sugar, cinnamon, salt and flour in a bowl. Sprinkle with the water over the fruit (if you’re using juicy plums or peaches, use half the water)Ĥ. You could also use berries, or any combination of summer fruits)ġ cup sugar (I used a combination of white and brown sugar)ģ.
Here’s Betty Crocker's Boys and Girls Cookbook recipe for Apple Crisp, which I made countless times as a small child and adapted to a “Summer Crisp.” This recipe is so easy, and is a great starting point for whatever ingredients you have in your kitchen.Ĥ cups sliced pared apples (I used sliced peaches, plums, and nectarines with the skins on. Peacock makes this old-fashioned comfort food with summer fruits-peaches, plums, and berries. I’d plan my own menus too.Īnd for desert-apple crisp.admittedly apple crisp conjures up cozy autumn evenings by the fire, but Mr. The book also had "menus" for special occasions like mother’s day, and father’s day. "A picnic with a pal".a plaid blanket, sandwiches, and "lumberjack cookies"-giant, the size of salad plates, gingebread cookies with pastel icing. My "Enchanted Castle Cake" didn't look nearly as dreamy, or neat, as the photo above. I didn’t know about stylists and art directors back then. I always wondered why my creations didn’t look as perfect as the photo. I think I made almost every recipe in the book.Īs a kid, I’d pester my mom, “Can I make this…?!” She’d always reply, “If you can read the recipe…then you can make it…” I rediscovered my cookbook a few years back, while cleaning out my mother’s home. I would spend hours examining the photos and drawings, and of course reading the recipes in this beginner’s cookbook. This was interesting, especially for the era it was originally printed (the fifties), because it didn’t treat cooking as a female specific activity, like many children’s cookbooks of the time period.
Throughout the book there are illustrations of boys cooking by themselves and along side the girls. The cover of the book has a boy frosting a cake. Actually, I think it was a hand-me-down from my older sisters, who were 10 years older than me. The Betty Crocker's Boys and Girls Cookbook was one of my first cookbooks as a child. One thing that remains constant, however, is the comfort of old-fashioned simple recipes and foods, like apple crisp, chocolate chip cookies, and mashed potatoes. These are strange and crazy times-wars, economic collapses, and passing pop icons.
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