Favorite Cook Book

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by simplepeddler

some good stuff here......

But guys, do yourselves a favor........if your grandmother, grandfather, mother....or ANY person you respect cooks.....

Have them right there recipes down for you.......nothing formal......just on whatever, from a big chief pad to a grocery bag.....

They will make fine fine framed art for you kitchen and unbeleivable hand me downs for those kids that cook.....

My grandma put to together a cook book a few years back glad she did cause I don't know what I would do without her fig cake. She has Parkinson's now and dementia.


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[Vermillionaire]

I've only used my mom's "Talk About Good II" and called my grandmother for the rest.

[chief paul]

Retired from fire dept. so I was taught well on most all cooking phases.
When I need a cook book I go to Pirates Pantry or Jude Theriot.

[Cappy]

There is one recipe from my child hood dearly missed and try as I might I can't find it. I grew up in Port Barre and the older "maw-ma's" made an amazing pecan cake. It was yellow cake made in an oblong pan. Sometimes split with a thread into 2 layers. The frosting was this amazing chopped pecan sweet creamy topping that stayed soft or well firm but not hard. Folks usta f9ight for the corners as they had nore frosting than the rest. I remember waking up one time on Christmas eve before daylight sneaking to the kitchen passing the presents um touched to swipe 2 corners ofn mama's pecan cake she had prepared for the Christmas dinner. The spanking was almost worth it the next morning for the amazing cake. My mom was good about recipes and I have most of her favorites but she is gone now aS IS ALL THE OLD GALS WHO KNEW IT. Any one knows of anything that sounds similar I would be eternally grateful. I have experimented many times with ingredients but have never gotten it exactly right.

[duckman1911]

Originally Posted by BassYakR

I usually just go off of memory from watching my mom or dad cook. If i do look up a recipe i never follow them completely.

X2. I'll use a cookbook if I want to try something completely new to me but I dont follow them exactly. Takes some of the fun out of it if you dont throw in your own twist.

[Reefman]

Originally Posted by Cappy

There is one recipe from my child hood dearly missed and try as I might I can't find it. I grew up in Port Barre and the older "maw-ma's" made an amazing pecan cake. It was yellow cake made in an oblong pan. Sometimes split with a thread into 2 layers. The frosting was this amazing chopped pecan sweet creamy topping that stayed soft or well firm but not hard. Folks usta f9ight for the corners as they had nore frosting than the rest. I remember waking up one time on Christmas eve before daylight sneaking to the kitchen passing the presents um touched to swipe 2 corners ofn mama's pecan cake she had prepared for the Christmas dinner. The spanking was almost worth it the next morning for the amazing cake. My mom was good about recipes and I have most of her favorites but she is gone now aS IS ALL THE OLD GALS WHO KNEW IT. Any one knows of anything that sounds similar I would be eternally grateful. I have experimented many times with ingredients but have never gotten it exactly right.

Use Duncan Hines yellow BUTTER recipe cake mix. Follow directions and bake in rectangular pan.

Your icing;
12 oz of evaporated milk
2 sticks of melted butter
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1 cup of toasted pecans chopped
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1/4 teaspoon of salt

Combine milk, sugar and bring to very slow boil for 10 minutes. Add butter and rest of ingredients cook for additional 3 minutes. Pour over warm, baked cake. Should do it.

[Fishbum]

not that old school but good stuff

[swamp snorkler]

Cooking Up A Strom is another great cookbook that I forgot to mention.

Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans: Marcelle Bienvenu, Judy Walker: 9780811865777: Amazon.com: Books

Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans: Marcelle Bienvenu, Judy Walker: 9780811865777: Amazon.com: Books
Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans: Marcelle Bienvenu, Judy Walker: 9780811865777: Amazon.com: Books