Favorite Housewives on the Covers of Recipe Booklets

It's obvious this 20s housewife is proud of her rolls.

These 30s housewives are so cute. I would love to have kitchen curtains made with fabric in this pattern.

This 20s housewife gets her serenity from Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the sponsor of this booklet.

It takes a lot of Snowdrift shortening to make Depression-era food taste better.

OK, Mommy, I give up! Please don't lock me into your new General Electric refrigerator!

This has to be my all-time favorite recipe booklet housewife. She's pretty, in a girl-next-door kind of way, and she stands beaming with pride, holding the cake she just made with her big ceramic Hamilton Beach electric mixer, just like the one my mom used to have. What more could you want out of life?

This one gets the Sexiest Housewife Award for her low-cut peasant blouse and come-hither look.

Calm down, Grandma! It's just a mixer! Note: The housewife in this one is smartly at home attending to important cooking duties, after punishing her teenaged daughter for staying out after curfew by assigning her to take Grandma shopping. (Sorry about the tape on this one, but that was the original condition of the booklet, and it was too daunting to try to correct in Photoshop.)

Yes, folks, this is what happens to you if you eat too many waffles: the Heartbreak of Wafflization.