3 Dessert & Cookie Books

THREE BAKING AND WEEKNIGHT COOKBOOKS - BETTER HOMES & GARDENS DESSERT COOK BOOK 1960, BH&G COOKIES FOR CHRISTMAS, AND SOUTHERN LIVING OUR BEST EASY WEEKNIGHT FAVORITES Three hardcover cookbooks from this estate's kitchen shelf, two of them Better Homes and Gardens titles and one from Oxmoor House. The oldest is the Better Homes & Gardens Dessert Cook Book, the classic red Meredith hardcover copyright 1960, advertised on the jacket as All-time favorites plus exciting new desserts - over 400 recipes, with the period color food photography that collectors of mid-century cookbooks look for: strawberry shortcake under drifts of whipped cream, meringues on a tiered stand, tinted cakes, and iced cookies. Next is Better Homes and Gardens Cookies for Christmas, a glossy red laminated hardcover with a gingerbread house, decorated bears, stars, candy canes, and cutouts on the cover, holding nearly 100 tested Christmas cookie recipes. Third is Southern Living OUR BEST Easy Weeknight Favorites from Oxmoor House, a laminated pictorial hardcover with red endpapers, organized as complete weeknight menus with prep and cook times, groceries-needed and equipment-needed sidebars, and a numbered menu plan on each spread. The three work together as a dessert-and-supper set: one for old-fashioned pies, cakes and puddings, one for the Christmas baking season, and one for getting a full meal on the table on a weeknight. Bidders should note that the Dessert Cook Book's dust jacket is heavily worn, chipped, torn, and repaired with old clear tape at the corners and spine ends, with the tape now browned and lifting. The two later books are clean and bright. This lot follows the other estate cookbook lots offered in this sale. Sold as a lot of 3 books. Description Better Homes & Gardens Dessert Cook Book - hardcover in red boards with the pictorial dust jacket present. Spine of the jacket reads Better Homes & Gardens DESSERT Cook Book with Meredith at the tail. Title page reads Dessert Cook Book / By the Editors of / Better Homes and Gardens, and the copyright line beneath reads MEREDITH PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1960. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Rear jacket panel carries three color photographs with the blurbs Perfect Apple Pie - you'll be proud to serve this one!, Here's a beauty for your collection of cakes! describing the Feathery Fudge Cake with Chocolate Satin Frosting, and Ambrosia - just right to top off a hearty feast! Cream endpapers, sewn binding visible at the hinge, and interior spreads photographed include a "Fruit-pie praise winners" section with Cherry Pie Supreme, Red Cherry Pie, Old-fashioned Cherry Pie, Peach Angel Pie, Peach Pie, Butterscotch Peach Pie, Apricot Pie, and Spicy Raisin Tarts, illustrated with a full-page lattice cherry pie photograph and a line-art cartoon. Measures approximately 10-3/4 to 11 inches tall and approximately 8-1/2 to 9 inches wide per the tape-measure photographs. In both measuring shots the tape hook rests on top of the cover rather than hooked over the book edge, so both figures are close estimates. Better Homes and Gardens Cookies for Christmas - laminated pictorial hardcover, no dust jacket issued in this format, glossy red with a decorated gingerbread house, gingerbread bears, iced stars, a candy cane, a heart cutout ornament, and a decorated ball cookie on the front. Spine reads Better Homes and Gardens. COOKIES FOR CHRISTMAS. Title page repeats the title and carries the red gingham BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS TEST KITCHEN seal with the standard assurance that every recipe has been tested there. Rear board carries the publisher's blurb naming Gingerbread Cutouts, Date Bars, Stuffed Stockings, and Eggnog Thumbprints, and states nearly 100 recipes, with a barcode and ISBN 0-696-01290-1. Interior spreads photographed include a Shaped Cookies chapter with Pistachio Wreaths and Poinsettia Balls facing a full-color plated photograph. Measures approximately 10-3/4 to 11 inches tall and approximately 8-1/2 to 9 inches wide per the tape-measure photographs. The tape hook rests on top of the cover in both shots, so these are close estimates. Southern Living OUR BEST Easy Weeknight Favorites - laminated pictorial hardcover, no dust jacket, with a stacked tortilla casserole photograph on the front and the Southern Living / OUR BEST logo above the title. Spine reads Southern Living OUR BEST Easy Weeknight Favorites with Oxmoor House at the tail. Half title repeats the title over a small color photograph. Bright red endpapers front and back. Rear board carries a color photograph, the lines Southern Living / OUR BEST RECIPES / Oxmoor House, a barcode, and ISBN 0-8487-1686-8. Interior spreads photographed include a "Faux-Fried Favorites" menu with Oven-Fried Fish, Zesty French Fries, Turnip Greens, Corn on the Cob and Lemon Frapp, complete with Groceries Needed, Equipment Needed, and a numbered Menu Plan sidebar, plus Grilled Ham and Apples, Hot Brown Pasta Casserole,