With the little Genie- apparently he granted wishes involving salad dressing:
They introduced some Low Calorie dressings in 1961:
And here's an ad from 1979:
Another, this one from 2004:
And - the "Now" - as in "in our refrigerator right now":
Does everybody else have a ton of different salad dressings in their fridge, or is it just us?
Each chapter has recipes from a different country, with the most adorable illustrations as chapter title pages:
The illustrations are by Ellen A. Nelson:
"Tested in the kitchen of a New England housewife"...
...."and Published for the Enjoyment of Many American Families"
But the best part is...
The Chicken Cordon Bleu, ready to go into the oven - the little one was for me!
And the finished product. Yum.
And, besides we got to see THIS little cutie! 
I love this game - I love the images on the cards:
I loved playing it back then, and when I got older I played it with little kids:
What a kick! I didn't even remember (not consciously, anyhow) that goose with the orange background (below). It's Petunia! No wonder I was drawn to that book when I found it in the thrift store! (I wrote about it back in this post):
I recognize a number of the other pictures as being from more of my favorite children's books, too. I haven't played my Memory Game in a long time:
A pretty restaurant china one with pine cones:
A lovely green, shown with one of my favorite restaurant china teapots and one of my demitasse cup and saucer sets:
This one is more of a coral or salmon color of pink, shown with a Hall pitcher and another demitasse set:
I don't think you can even tell that this one is a nice yellow shade! Shown with an orange (Bauer?) teapot and tumbler:
And this one was free at a yard sale last year - a nice white ironstone one, shown with two of my Harlequin cup and saucer sets:
And here it is again behind Frank Gorshin and D.C with a matching canister on the kitchen counter:
So - the perfect excuse to bore you with more photos of some of my own Ransburg. Wish I did have the breadbox in blue , but I do have the roll-top style in black, as you can see here: 
I have shown you a number of pictures in previous posts, but today's show mostly blue and black pieces, with my lone little gray canister thrown in:
I found another box a while back with 8 of the 10 cards still inside.
Wouldn't they be sweet framed and hanging in a child's room?
Come on - how cute are they?
A pretty framed print I just found at a thrift store:
I don't know why, but my father-in-law had his gardener take out most of the irises my mother-in-law had planted. Perhaps she even ordered some from this catalog. Some of the rhizomes were saved and stored, and I gave some to my sisters. 
I'd love to have some pink ones!
Luckily, some do remain out along the road. And as I sit here writing at the computer, I can see some out the window - yellow ones. They make me smile. I associate them with our Daddy - he liked them, too, and we helped him plant some along the driveway at the house we grew up in. When he died, I was wishing we could have daffodils and irises for the funeral, and they weren't in season, so Mother had some made out of fabric, and gave one of each to us girls. That was the sweetest thing ever.
This is certainly a pretty pair. They are useful on one side of the bed, with the Kleenex holder on the nightstand:
Another black one with my favorite pink roses resides in the dining room under a side table:
I picked this one up at a thrift shop for $1.00. While not as colorful as the others, it's still very nice looking - so I use in a less conspicuous place than it's counterparts: 
