Dear Daughter Cookbook: Time Tested Recipes Of Five Generations - Softcover

Ella Mae Tucker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932427007 ISBN 13: 9781932427004

Publisher: Asher Creek Publishing, 1964

Synopsis

Favorite Recipes Of The Last 100 Years!

DEAR DAUGHTER COOKBOOK contains over 300 favorite American recipes handed down for more than five generations. Originally published in 1964, Dear Daughter was Ella Mae's -- and Asher Creek's -- first cookbook. It is now in its 20th printing and continues to be a favorite.

Over 300 recipes in 20 sections:
Appetizers; Breads & Breakfast Rolls; Cakes; Icings; Cake Fillings and Sauces; Candies; Cookies; Deep Well; Desserts; Egg and Cheese Dishes; Fish; Fish and Meat Sauces; Frozen Deserts; Meats; Pies; Poultry; Salads; Salad Dressings; Soups; Vegetables.

DEAR DAUGHTER is a complete cookbook with kitchen tips, temperature and measurement charts, and suggestions for achieving the best results. Along with hundreds of popular and traditional dishes, it also contains many unusual recipes difficult to find anywhere but Asher Creek, such as Sour Cream Cake, Tomato Soup Cake, Dried Yeast Bread, Peach Leather, Grandma's Salt-raising Bread and Mrs. Tuckerís Popcorn Cake.

DEAR DAUGHTER is the book that started it all for Asher Creek and is a must-have for all cookbook lovers.

About this title

About the Author

Ella Mae Tucker was born to Rosa M. and Arthur Maupin in Butler, Bates Co., Missouri on September 17, 1910. She was the oldest of four children. Ella Mae started teaching school at age 16 and went on to attend Southwest Missouri Teachers College (now SMSU), in Springfield. There she met and married Byron Tucker, the son of a circuit riding Baptist minister. They had one daughter, Norma Jean.

Ella Mae taught school until the early 40's. After World War II they moved to Hollywood where she worked as an extra in the movies for several years. In the late 1940's they returned to the Ozarks and bought a farm in Stone County. There she began her career as a columnist for the Springfield News-Leader. Ella Mae wrote hundreds of articles through a variety of columns. Her three most popular were Garden Guide, Recipe Exhange, and her most popular column,Out Our Way.

During the early 1960's Ella Mae and Byron opened and operated the photography and print shop at Silver Dollar City. During that period she wrote several cook books in her spare time, includingDear Daughter and High On The Hog. Ella Mae retired in 1990 after a 40 year career as a writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Asher Creek Publishing
• Publication date: 1964
• ISBN 10: 1932427007
• ISBN 13: 9781932427004
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112