Estate Sale Finds ~ The Pillsbuty Bake-off 17th Annual and Cooking with Condensed Soups

The Pillsbury Busy Lady Bake-Off Recipes, published in 1966. This booklet highlights 100 prize winning recipes from the 17th annual bake-off and also includes prior winning recipes that have been updated, streamlined and updated for the "modern" busy cook. The prize winning recipe and recipient of the $25,000 cash prize was the Golden Gate Snack Bread (made with a jar of cheese whiz!).

Breads gets the ball rolling with chicken little bread (using chicken broth instead of water), corned beef rye twists, coffee cake, onion hoop bread and raised holiday muffins, followed by Main Dishes which include Polynesian buffet chicken, Calcutta lamb curry casserole, a corn & beef bake, busy lady beef bake and a pigs in a yoke (sausages on a cottage cheese filling).

A few of the prize winning Cakes are a roll in one (a jelly roll filled with pecan orange marmalade), pineapple dream cake, lemon ginger buttercream, pound cake, a plum fun cake, the every popular tunnel of fudge (updated to utilize frosting for the filling) and a Baltimore banana cake. Cookies pitch coconut crunch, molasses butter crescents, fruit punch bars, cherry pompoms, brownies, raisin bars and sesame bars.

Desserts consist of mandarin dream pie (made with canned mandarin oranges), lemon aloha pie, an orange chocolate ring, peach strudel, prune whip pie and baked Alaska. The final chapter, Snacks, delivers pizza dippers, meatball and blue cheese puffs.


Cooking with Condensed Soups, published in 1946.A slim booklet published by Campbell Soup which incorporates their soups into recipes ranging from main dishes to desserts.

Up first is Meat and Poultry which offers beef stew, meatloaf, meatballs, baked chicken puffs, creamed chicken, ham loaf, chili, chop suey, liver Creole and festive franks, followed by Fish ~ tuna casserole and a celery salmon loaf.

Egg and Cheese Dishes consist of souffles, tomato cheese macaroni, quick pizza and the rum tum ditty (tomato soup with cheese on toast), with Sauces providing BBQ sauce, creole sauce and tomato horseradish.

For Vegetables, a few of the dishes include scalloped potatoes, stuffed peppers and baked stuffed tomatoes, while Salad and Salad Dressings doles out a chicken cranberry party salad, tuna celery salad, chicken veggie salad and for the dressings ~ chiffonade and tomato French.

Bread metes out doughnuts, spoon bread, cheese biscuits and popovers, with the last chapter, Desserts delivering the famous tomato soup cake and a steamed tomato fig pudding.

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