Betty Crocker's Party Book

Note: This edition of Betty Crocker's Party Book has been updated to include Metric equivalents.


Everybody loves a party, and if you are like most of our friends you want yours to be very special. You want a party to be proud of, whether it’s large or small, for children or for grown-ups. So we have planned this book to help you with your parties through the year.


As you browse through these pages you’ll find help in planning ahead, as well as ideas for decorations, games, favors, menus, and recipes for every kind of special occasion. There are pages and pages of parties -- birthday parties for children of all ages, parties for every holiday, and parties for the bride from the first shower to the silver and golden anniversaries.


If you will turn first to this book every time you entertain, I promise that your party will be fun for you as well as for your guests.


This attractive book will show you how to plan and prepare for every kind of party: Christinas parties, picnics, Easter breakfast, club luncheons, wedding anniversaries, teen-age parties and many more. With almost every turn of the page you’ll find another party plan: some simple, some elaborate, some spur-of-the-moment, some very important. Suggestions for children’s parties include games and activities. Helpful how-to-do-it instructions and diagrams supplement the decorating tips. Vividly illustrated throughout with full-color photographs and drawings.