Bunny Salad (Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls, 1970)

Bunny Salad
Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls

For each serving, place crisp lettuce leaf on plate.

On top of lettuce, place upside down: 1 chilled pear half

Make bunny with narrow end for face.

Eyes: 2 raisins
Nose: 1 red cinnamon candy
Ears: 2 blanched almonds
Tail: cottage cheese ball

Rocket Salad (Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls 1970s)

Rocket Salad

Source:  Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls

For each serving, place a crisp lettuce leaf on a salad plate.   

Launching Pad: 1 slick pineapple

Rocket: 1/2 peeled banana set upright in center of pineapple slice

Nose Cone: 1/2 maraschino cherry fastened to top of banana with a toothpick

Banana Orange Frosted and Grape Float (Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls)

Banana-Orange Frosted
Source:  Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls 



Peel and slice 1 ripe banana 

Place in bowl and mash with fork.
Add 1/ cup orange juice.

Beat with rotary egg beater until smooth.


Add 1/2 cup cold milk and 1/2 pint (1 cup) orange sherbet


Beat again until smooth.
Pour into two tall glasses. 

Top drinks with scoops of orange sherbet ( 1/2  pint)
Decorate each glass with an orange slice and a banana slice, if you like.



2 servings

Grape Float 
Source:  Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls 

You can make a fancy float with any of your favorite bottled sodas. 

Place in tall glass: 1 scoop vanilla ice cream
Fill glass with chilled grape soda

1 serving.

Kookie Kat Sundaes - Betty Crocker Boys and Girls Cookbook, circa 1970

Kookie Kat Sundaes
Betty Crocker Boys and Girls Cookbook, circa 1970

You will need:

your favorite ice cream
small paper or plastic dishes
colored candy-coated milk chocolate candies
small round cookies (vanilla or chocolate)
toasted coconut (optional)

Place a big scoop of ice cream in each dish.  This is the head for your Kookie Kat.

Use candies for eyes and mouth. For ears, push cookies into ice cream.  If you like, sprinkle a little toasted coconut for hair.

Serve immediately.

Three Men in a Boat (Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls 1960s)

3 Men in a Boat
(Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls 1960s)

Hollow out part of a baked potato so it looks like a boat. Fill the hollow with creamed dried beef. Cut a sail from a firm piece of cheese and stand upright in the boat on a toothpick. 

Three mushrooms on edge of potato boat are the three "men".