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Tunnel of Fudge Cake, Second Prize Winning Recipe, 1966.
Peanut Blossom Cookies. Winning senior grand national recipe, 1957.
Beatrice Ojakangas from Duluth, MN and Ronald Reagan at the Bake-Off in Los Angeles, 1957.
Breakfast for Pillsbury Bake-Off contestants, Los Angeles, 1957.
The Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Simpson) and Philip Pillsbury sample Lily Wuebel's grand-prize-winning entry, orange kiss-me cake, in 1951.
Pillsbury Mills, Incorporated, CBS Photo, Grand National Bake-Off at the Waldorf Astoria, New York, 1950. Left to right: Art Linkletter, contestant, Duchess of Windsor (Wallis Simpson), Philip Pillsbury.
Philip Pillsbury, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Art Linkletter sample Theodora Smafield’s winning recipe, 1949.
Bake-Off entry form, 1949.
Grand prize Bake-Off winner Theodora Smafield, 1949.
The first Pillsbury Bake-Off in New York City at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 1949.