Bettina's best desserts by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron
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"Bettina's Best Desserts" by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron is a cookbook written in the early 20th century. It focuses on practical, home-friendly sweets—especially fruit desserts, cakes, custards, gelatins, and frozen treats—introduced with brief, chatty headnotes and clear serving suggestions. Aimed at homemakers planning everyday and “company” meals, it emphasizes economy, simplicity, and pleasing presentation. The opening of this cookbook sets the tone with a playful foreword and a detailed
contents list, then launches into generous, step-by-step recipes beginning with Apple Desserts (from cobbler, dumplings, and Brown Betty to marshmallow- and raisin-stuffed baked apples). It proceeds through concise sections on apricot, banana, and blueberry sweets; more elaborate cake desserts (Boston cream pie, chocolate rolls, gingerbread, ice box cake, Lady Baltimore); cherry cobblers and tarts; cream puffs and eclairs with multiple fillings; and custards both baked and boiled. A substantial frozen-desserts primer follows, explaining how to freeze and “ripen” ice creams, ices, sherbets, parfaits, mousses, and their sauces with exact packing instructions. Subsequent pages offer gelatine-based confections, grape-juice jellies, mixed-fruit cups, and citrus and peach specialties (shortcakes, tapiocas, and airy creams), all in short, reliable formulas with portion sizes, simple methods, and frequent notes about serving warm with cream or keeping very cold. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Weaver, Louise Bennett |
|---|---|
| Author | LeCron, Helen Cowles, 1886-1963 |
| Illustrator | Colborne, Elizabeth, 1885-1948 |
| LoC No. | 23010004 |
| Title | Bettina's best desserts |
| Original Publication | A. L. Burt company |
| Credits | Aaron Adrignola, BlueDiamondHead and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | TX: Technology: Home economics |
| Subject | Desserts |
| Subject | Cookbooks |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77897 |
| Release Date | Feb 9, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 280 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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