A Lifetime Of Secret Recipes: 500 Southern Recipes From A Mother's Kitchen

by Bernice Craddock

Every year our family would grow this large garden behind our home. A 50-by-30 yard garden seems immense when you are a kid. By the time it hit the kitchen table, it was “ummhh & awnn (using a country style Mayberry, USA – Andy Griffith dialect). “This is the best I ever put in my mouth!” After several years of that repetition, my sister and I would just look at each other and bust into a gut-wrenching laugh.

All those fine, home-grown ingredients are what went into my mother’s cooking to help it become so infamous. And those same homemade southern recipes are being passed down to you today.

Bernice G. Craddock focused her entire life on being a great wife, mother, and homemaker. At 78 years young, she decided to write her own southern cookbook. Her greatest challenge was narrowing it down to her 500 “most favourite” recipes.

Inside her collection, you will be able to enjoy popular southern recipes like:

Chicken Corn Soup
Clam Chowder
Casserole recipes
Sweet Potato Souffle
Sweet N' Sour Chicken & a variety of chicken recipes
Gingered Pork
Biscuit Recipes

And 400+ more salad, appetizer, main course, beverage and dessert recipes for you to share with your family.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

506 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2013

Reviews

[Barbara B Fineberg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shortcut Recipes for Working Spouses

Easy and fast recipes providing busy cooks with a nice variety of menu choices somewhat related to traditional Southern favorites without time-consuming preparation. A bit outdated; butter should be substituted for margarine, but a passable beginner's cookbook.

[KAREN MCNEELY · Rating 3 out of 5]

Typos, etc.

A lot of the recipe ingredients are confused together or are finished on another skipped line. More than a few of the recipes contain pineapple bits or cans of chunks, which I don't care for as a sweetener. I do like quite a few of these different recipes from main meals to desserts, don't get me wrong. But the typos are a bit confusing at first. You get what you paid for.

[Susan Faloon · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has a sweet tribute to the author by her son. It speaks of how she shared her recipes and their products with people in her life. It's a keeper for me just for that reason. There are many familiar recipes here in the collection. It's a book well worth having whether you are a new cook and baker or someone who is very familiar with putting meals and treats out for a family, church or community.

[Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Recipes to try: Hot Cider, Swiss-Style Mocha, Waldorf Spread, Hash Brown Potato Casserole, Pinto Bean Casserole, Sausage Quiche, Broccoli Cornbread, Cheese Biscuits, Croutons, Chocolate Cherry Cake, Blackberry Wine Cake, Coconut Cake, Icebox Fruit Cake, Hawaiian Fruitcake, Spice Pound Cake, German Apple Pie, Chocolate Cookies.

[Julie Tuttle · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars

I gave this a five star rating. I have been looking for a particular recipe for years. I mean YEARS. This cookbook has the recipe. Yippy! There are lots of recipes to choose. Thank you, thank you.