Hometown Recipes: Recipes From Small Towns Around The Country - Softcover

Ella Mae Tucker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193242704X ISBN 13: 9781932427042

Publisher: Asher Creek Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

Hometown Recipes contains over 150 favorite recipes sent to Ella Mae Tucker from her readers during 40 years of writing her recipe exchange column for the Springfield News Leader of Springfield, Missouri. Hometown Recipes is a wonderful collection of home-style recipes from the Midwest and the country at large. Just a sampling of the delicious and unusual recipes:

Breads and Cakes: Corn Bread and Corn Fritters, Fried Bread, Peach Bread, Butterscotch Rum Cake, Cherry Pudding Cake, Chocolate Wacky Cake, Dirt Cake, Mississippi Mud, Raw Apple Cake, Oatmeal Cake, Gooey Cake

Pies: Blueberry Pie, Butterscotch Pie, Mock Apple Pie, Custard Pie, Praline Pie, Raisin Pie, Rhubarb Pie, Sweet Potato Pie, Single and Two Crust Pies

Meats: Shopping Day Beef Stew, Crock Pot Steak, Meat Loaf, Pepper Steak, Swiss Steak, Seven Layer Casserole, Beef Stroganoff

Soups and Salads: Bean Salad, Cauliflower Salad, Hot Potato Salad, Kraut Salad, Frozen Pink Salad, Carrot Salad, Wilted Lettuce, Perfect Chicken and Vegetable Salads

Vegetables: Asparagus Loaf, Acorn Squash, Black-eyed Peas, Candied Yams, Corn Pudding, Fast Cabbage, Fried Apples, Fried Corn Meal Mush, Friendly Data, Harvard Beats, Stuffed Potatoes, Cabbage and Pepper Recipes

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 Exchange, 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, including Dear 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: 2008
• ISBN 10: 193242704X
• ISBN 13: 9781932427042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64