Betty Crocker’s Kitchen Can Now Be Yours
Break open the boxed cake mix with pride in this charming 1681 Norwell, Massachusetts “home with a history.”
By Aimee Tucker|Aug 05 2016|
The "Betty Crocker House" in Norwell, Massachusetts.
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My favorite Betty cookbooks is the 1966 “Cake and Frosting Mix Cookbook.”
Credit: Aimee SeaveyCredit: Aimee Seavey Actually … make that a claim to nutritionist Janette Kelley, one of the women responsible for creating Betty Crocker. As Director of the Home Services Department at General Mills at the time, Kelley led a test kitchen full of female recipe developers that became the expertise behind the quintessential (fictional) domestic brand icon. Naturally, you can assume the brainstorming and recipe testing continued at home — a home which can now be yours! Kelley’s former Norwell, Massachusetts Gambrel Cape (known locally as the “Betty Crocker House”) is now on the market, and it’s even more charming than you’d imagine. Starting with the curb appeal…
The “Betty Crocker House” in Norwell, Massachusetts.
Credit: Jeff Thiebauth PhotographyCredit: Jeff Thiebauth Photography And continuing through to the spacious, sunny kitchen.
Whip up your favorite Bundt cake in this colonial-meets-retro kitchen.
Credit: Jeff Thiebauth PhotographyCredit: Jeff Thiebauth Photography Love hosting cocktail or dinner parties? Afternoon teas? Tupperware soirées? You can do that here, with the help of a large stone fireplace and ample wood paneling.
Cozy, charming, and
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I LOVED my Betty Crocker Cook Book and I live in the area where it is located. But would love to know where/what is the address please. What a beautiful home.
I am a true New Engander and currently us my mother’s well-stained old Betty Crocker cookbook. My favorite recipe is for “Indian Pudding.” This house is truly what I love. The older, the better!
As a young bride (almost 61 years ago), the Betty Crocker Cook Book was my guide. The first cook book has fallen apart, the pages are stained but still readable. Lots of good food was made with those recipes.
I esp used the cake recipes and some pages have falling completely apart!
I received my Betty Crocker Cook Book 66 years ago as a wedding gift and it is the one I refer to the most still. I know I can rely on it and prefer some of the ways we did things 60 years ago.
MY BETTY CROCKER COOKBOOK IS 65 YEARS OLD,HELD TOGETHER WITH LOTS OF SCOTCH TAPE,BUT STILL GETS PULLED OUT & USED QUITE OFTEN
MY DAUGHTER HAS DIBS ON IT WHEN I CAN NO LONGER USE IT.
I’m trying to leave my kids and grand kids a legacy of all the old Betty Crocker cook books I need a 1951 and 1974 any one know where I could get them?