Grandma's Brown County Cookbook

About the Book

This book was compiled from the recipes the author has grown to love as her small family of two sons grew up. She went from knowing how to bake a pone of cornbread (and that was all) when she married to being able to prepare many tasty dishes of country foods over the years. She believes in using the freshest ingredients she can find for her foods and prepares the best dishes she can to feed her husband and family. Always married to an avid gardener, if his garden fails because of heavy rains or something, she has her husband—who does all the grocery shopping—spend a lot of time in the perimeters of every grocery looking for the healthy fruits and vegetables which she then prepares for the two of them now that the sons are grown and gone. Except for cans of beans and tomatoes that she uses to make chili, almost every dish she prepares is made from scratch using only fresh or frozen vegetables. Do not look for fancy cooking in this book because you will not find fancy. What you will find is good down-home healthy recipes which do not take a lot of time to prepare. Every young person leaving home should take a copy of this book with them so they do not have to live on fast food and will find the joy of eating like home cooking. She can only wish now that she had access to this type of cooking when she was learning to be a wife and mother.

About the Author

The author is a self-taught, prize-winning writer, now retired who for 21-years managed a community newspaper. She was the boss over all the others, knew every job of all those under her, saw to the bookkeeping and accounting, and in her spare hours at the newspaper interviewed interesting people in the community and wrote stories about them. Grandmother of two grown grandchildren she has been asked by them to record her favorite recipes and the result of that request is this book. It has taken her 55 years of married life to perfect some of the recipes she grew up loving to eat and fix for her small family. I hope you enjoy plain food because this is just what these recipes are, the best-tasting, easiest-prepared foods you can find in good country cooking.