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.
Credit: Jeff Thiebauth PhotographyNew England is famous for its culinary founding mothers. We know that Fannie Farmer championed home cooking in the late 1800s, Ruth Wakefield introduced America (and then the world) to the chocolate chip cookie in the 1930s, and Julia Child forever changed the way we think about French cooking (not to mention the phrase “Bon Appétit!”) a few decades later. But somewhere in there, we’ve also got a claim to Betty Crocker.
Yes, that Betty Crocker. America’s go-to cookbook, cake-mix, and homemaker queen since the 1940s.
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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…
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And continuing through to the spacious, sunny kitchen.
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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.
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Rounding out the three-bedroom, two-bath property are a brick patio, grassy yard, and even a chicken coop.
And once you’ve moved in, why not celebrate with something sweet? I recommend a Caramel-Nut Cake Ring. It’s also perfect for when company comes calling.
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How would you like to live in the Betty Crocker House? You might have to fight me for it….
Contact Laurie Detwiler at Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage for more information. List price: $675,000
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?