Vintage Cookbooks: Betty Furness Westinghouse Cook Book
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Since a 1954 Westinghouse electric range recently made its way into the Cavalcade studio kitchen - with the kind help of Ralph and Todd - I thought it would be a good time to take a closer look at another 1954 offering from Westinghouse: The Betty Furness Westinghouse Cook Book. While actress Betty Furness was the spokesperson for Westinghouse and featured in advertisements, the book was really composed by Julia Kiene, who was the director of the Westinghouse Home Economics Institute in Mansfield, Ohio.
Julia Kiene was a recognized name to many Westinghouse customers. Her photo and brief introduction was usually found on the first page of owner's manuals for Westinghouse products like refrigerators, ranges, roaster ovens and other small appliances.
The Betty Furness Westinghouse Cook Book is a general cookbook filled with recipes and practical cooking and baking advice and information.
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LOVE YOUR CHANNEL! I GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL IN 1954! I REMEMBER BETTY FURNESS BUT I DO NOT REMEMBER HER COOKBOOK. I'M NEARLY 88 YEARS OLD NOW AND ACQUIRED QUITE A LARGE COLLECTION OF COOKBOOKS OVER YEARS, BUT THEY DO NOT INCLUDE MS. FURNESS'. HOWEVER, THANKS TO GOOD OL' AMAZON, I'LL HAVE A COPY OF THAT COOKBOOK IN MY HANDS BY JULY 5TH. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INTRODUCING ME TO ANOTHER GREAT OLD COOKBOOK TO ADD TO MY COLLECTION. WHEN I'VE PASSED THROUGH THE VEIL, I HOPE MY PROGENY WILL ENJOY THEM AS MUCH AS I HAVE. 🥰🥰🥰🥰
My mom had this cookbook. It is now mine. As I was perusing through it, I found a couple of written notes by her directing me to fix a particular recipe for dinner. 🥹 It's so priceless to me now that she's gone.
Absolutely 100%
Hi Cass - that's a wonderful thing to have and cherish! Thanks!
My Grandfather was an Engineer for Westinghouse and my mother was an office administrator both at the Westinghouse main headquarters in Pittsburgh and both were given copies of the Blueish Green cover cookbooks, both of which I have and cherish to this day.
Hi Remy - how nice to have those cookbooks! A great connection to your family who worked at Westinghouse!
TY so much for 2 relies! I appreciate it! I’d love to see a picture sometime - but it seems impossible. I have such sweet memories cooking with my mom there at that stove!
What a great video. That was a fascinating run on the Westinghouse "family". The way they did their commercials & cookbooks made them feel a part of your family. Really enjoyed this video. Relocation was a excellent idea. Thank you Ralph & Todd for assisting in the stove switch out, & thank Mary Ann for your camera work on the previous video. Good people, good things come to light. God bless.
Thanks so much, Sallie! Glad you enjoyed this one and it was fun to do it sitting in front of the Westinghouse range!
Kevin! Another FANTASTIC video. I have the yellow one.
Thanks for the history. I've seen old Betty Furness commercials. She could sell anything!
Hi James - she certainly could! I think Westinghouse was wise to have her as their spokesperson. Thanks!
Kevin your Love and Knowledge is truly amazing, thats why we love you...even from over here XXX
Thank you so much, Lauren!! Appreciate you watching!!
Thank you, Kevin. We learned something new. I remember Betty Furness advertising a refrigerator on TV in the 1950's or 1960's. I had no idea that she was an actress. She was a credible spokesperson. However, my parents didn't have any Westinghouse appliances because my Dad worked for GE. He received a discount on GE appliances. So Mom didn't have the Betty Furness Cookbook. I remember that she was appointed to a government position, but did not know of her connection to Consumer Reports. Betty did a lot for us.
Hi Bluehill - sounds like you were a GE household, especially with your Dad working for the company. Betty found her passion for working in consumer rights. Thanks!
This was my mom's favorite cookbook. She had the blue one. So many good recipes. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome, 1corinthians!
I like how well you research your topic, always informative while interesting and fun.
Its just normal for him x
Thanks so much, Bambi!
My grandmother bought the Westinghouse Stove when my mother was a toddler in the 1950's. She received the yellow cookbook with the purchase. As an adult, my mother purchased a blue copy for her own use because her favorite cookie recipes are in it. My grandmother wouldn't give her yellow copy up. She was still making the cookie recipes for my grandfather. The first cookies I baked by myself were the peanut butter ones from this book. Still my favorite pb cookie recipe.
Hi Cheryl! Thanks for sharing that story and it confirms what I had heard about Westinghouse dealers giving cookbooks to customers when they purchased an appliance and others being sold in stores. I wasn't sure which color the dealers gave out. Many people swear by the peanut butter cookie recipe in this book! Thanks!
I have a copy of the blue/green cover. I picked up a few years ago at a thrift store. My copy was well-loved because it looks like a banged up war artifact. 😅 It's also full of handwritten notes and recipes from the lady who put a million miles on her Westinghouse cookbook.
Hi russbear! Sounds like the original owner really used their cookbook! I'll bet there are some good handwritten recipes tucked away in those pages! Thanks!
I remember an article in an appliance trade journal around WWII telling, with photographs, of the Westinghouse Home Economics Institute baking and sending cookies at Christmas to the Westinghouse employees who were members of the armed forces. It was written by Julia Kiene. A friend of mine was Head of our high school's Home Economics Department and she knew Julia Kiene as a friend and a colleague through the American Association of Home Economics and probably through the Georgia Power Company's selling of Westinghouse appliances and their providing them to high school home economics departments. Home EC was dropped from the curriculum in many high schools although it may be making a comeback to help students become more self sufficient.
Hi hydractor - thanks for sharing that story about Julia Keine and Westinghouse. I think home economics is a very needed subject today. It would be great for it to return to schools. Thanks!
Thanks for such an informative presentation! I'm going to keep my eyes open for this cookbook! I loved your video on the 1954 Forty Inch Westinghouse Range - especially love the massive oven with the double broiler!😊
Thanks, Eileen! These were pretty popular books so I'm sure you'll run across a copy. Thanks!
This cook book (the one with the blue-green cover) was a wedding present to my parents who were married in (drumroll please) 1954! I discovered it in the early 80's; dissatisfied with some of the newer recipes/techniques that were coming along just then. Since then it got lost in a move but I'm so happy that you decided to star it in one of your cook-book videos. I'm also very happy that you talked a bit about Betty Furness who had a consumer report segment on the NBC 5-O'Clock news broadcasts out of NY, also in the 80's. Good stuff!
Thanks, James! I'm guessing this book made a good gift to new brides at the time. I didn't know Betty did a consumer segment on the news - that's great. Thanks!
Hello Kevin! The only Westinghouse item we had was a Vacuum Cleaner
When we went to wall to wall, Mom got a Hoover Convertible. Mom was also a Home Economics teacher in public High Schools. You two would have gotten along really well. You forgot to tell who was behind the camera this time! Tut tut!
Hi Lawrence! I'll bet me and your mom would have been good friends with a lot to discuss! I didn't mention who was behind the camera because there wasn't anyone. I always do the cookbook episodes on my own. I just put the camera on a tripod and do it myself. Thanks!
I have the yellow covered one. I didn’t know about Betty Furness and Julia Kiene. I know my family had lots of Westinghouse products.
Thanks, Anna! Amazing the variety of products Westinghouse made at one time.
I love your wallpaper so much. I wallpapered the kitchen in my first house when my daughter was a baby. I remember going to a wallpaper store with my baby and toddler to look through their books to pick it out, too.
He mentions the wallpaper in a behind the scenes episode x
Hi Anna! I also remember those big wallpaper books! Thanks - I've had that wallpaper for years waiting for a place to hang it.
Hello Kevin! Really enjoyed the history lesson! Thanks🥰
Hi Vicki! You're welcome!
Mom had a yellow we grew up on that cookbook
Thanks, Marsha! Sounds like your mom used hers often!
@@cavalcadeoffood still to this day my siblings and I use recipes from that cookbook. It’s the only cookbook my mom owned
Superb video. Thank you for the in-depth look back at the cookbook and Westinghouse history. So enjoyed this - wonderful presentation. Now I’m headed to ebay to find a vintage Westinghouse cookbook!
Thanks, rcdoodles! You should be able to find lots of these available - I think they printed many copies.
Well researched Kevin! As you probably know you can find a ton of those Betty Furness commercials on You Tube. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were also spokes people for Westinghouse. There's also commercials staring Betty with Lucy Desi Vivian Vance and William Frawley. Desilu Studios and Westinghouse had a lengthy relationship in the 50's. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Studio One and Group W were all owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting. Cheers, Brian
Hi Brian! I've watched some of those old commercials on YT - they are fun to watch. I always remember that Lucy always had Westinghouse appliances in her "I Love Lucy" kitchen, since Westinghouse were sponsors. Yes, Studio One, Group W - and at one time CBS - were all owned by Westinghouse. Thanks!
Have you ever cooked out of this cookbook? They have many for sale on EBay. Thanks for a great video!😊🌺
Great show 😊
Thank you, Charles!
I first learned about Westinghouse years ago from Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. At that time, I was more interested in the couple and cared less about the appliance brand. Oh boy, times have changed for me ❤😂
Hi Grace! Yes, Westinghouse was a sponsor of "I Love Lucy" and so Lucy always had Westinghouse appliances in her kitchen. Thanks!
@@cavalcadeoffood I watched their Westinghouse infomercial. It was almost like a tv show skit…..I’ll have to re watch I Love Lucy so I can see their appliances 😀
I have a few of the Boston school of cooking books and a lot of the Betty Crocker books never heard of the Betty Furness book, I'm in New England area I will have to look in a few antique shops that have a book section thanks for all the information 😊
Hi Diana - these were pretty popular cookbooks so hopefully you can easily find one. Thanks!
I would love to experience your studio in person! I love to live vicariously through my actual past. 😊 it’s the only way for me to stomach the future. 😅
LOL! Thanks, John! We always have to straddle between the past, present and future.
@@cavalcadeoffood I have just recently discovered your wonderful channel. I wish that I had you as one of my neighbors! Lol! I’m 63, older than you, I’m sure! lol! Love all the vintage items you have in your stockpile.
I’m looking forward to catching up on your videos, too!
Just watched your pumpkin pie video from 2013? ❤️it!!
One of my favorite cookbooks, I use many of the recipes, the peanut butter cookies are the absolute best ever, Did you know many of the recipes, those cookies included, came from earlier Westinghouse range instruction manuals.
Hi Hans - seems like a number of people love the peanut butter cookie recipe in this book. I'm not surprised to hear that many of the recipes come out of the owner's manuals, since Julie Kiene also wrote those recipes - that was smart to reuse those again for the book. Thanks!
Great video Kevin! My mother had one of the green Betty Furness cookbooks. Unfortunately I gave it away when cleaning out her house. As much as I wanted to keep everything, some things had to go.
Hi John! Thanks - I know how that goes. We can't keep everything - there's just no room! Hopefully the cookbook got passed to a good home!
Thank you for the video Kevin... Watching it was a very enjoyable accompaniment to my morning cup of tea!
You're welcome, John! Glad I could be part of your morning!
I really enjoy these vintage cookbook videos! I recently was able to find a copy of The New Delineator cookbook you featured not too long ago. One question that keeps popping up every time I find a vintage cookbook is the infrequency of chicken recipes. Sometimes there will be a chicken recipe but it will be for a whole chicken. My question is when did buying and cooking just the breast, thigh or legs etc. become the norm? Any answers are greatly appreciated! Thanks again for these great videos! 🧡
Hi Cristina - so glad you found a copy of the Delineator cookbook! Being able to buy a whole chicken pre-cut or just certain pieces wasn't a popular option until the 1950's. Before then most chickens were sold whole, but the butcher would cut them up for you or people did it themselves. Thanks!
Hello!
My mom had an electric stove around 1968-1971 that had an automatic stirrer burner. It was magnetic- it had an accessory that fit into your pan that magnetized to the burner. It automatically stirred things like home made pie fillings, etc. I do not know the brand of the stove but the one in this video gave me an instant memory of that stove. I have tried to research and find the stove online - but without success. I bought a kitchen gadget that was SUPPOSED to do the same thing- but it quickly broke. TY for any information you may have.
It was a mid 60s Westinghouse, it had a motor under the unit , great setup.
@@hanscraig1850- TY!
@@hanscraig1850- Do you all have one or know where I can get more info on it?
Hi Debbie - Hans in correct - that was a feature that Westinghouse developed for their ranges. I've never seen one, but they offered it for a couple of years. Thanks!
I have a Hall's loaf dish in their periwinkle that has a Westinghouse stamp on the bottom. I think they gave them when people bought the Westinghouse ranges, and I know they did the same thing with the refrigerator glass stacking storage dishes when you bought one of their refrigerators. I don't know who made the glass dishes. You probably have some of those in all of your collections?
Hi Scooter - yes, I think I have a couple of the Westinghouse glass dishes. They also had glass bakeware that came with the Westinghouse electric roaster. They were likely made by Fire King (Anchor Hocking) or Pyrex. Thanks!
Who knew a government job would come into play...pretty cool!
Hi bbmks - yes, it worked out well for her. Thanks!
I think Mrs. Julia just has a matronly face.
Hi Lisa - I think you're right!