Mama Essie: The Church Kitchen Cookbook

The Church Kitchen Cookbook — Every Dish We Fed Two Hundred People On Next to Nothing, and Every Trick That Made It Taste Like Sunday. By Essie Tolbert, "Mama Essie."

For forty years Mama Essie cooked in the kitchen of a small Baptist church in Wilcox County, Alabama — funeral repasts, homecomings, Friday fish fries — for two hundred people on almost nothing. This book writes it all down before it's gone.

Inside:

- 90+ chapters: the Hard-Times Table, the Repast Table, the Homecoming Table, the Friday Fish Fry and the Sweet Table.

- The old feel-cues — a pinch, a handful, "till it sounds like rain" — with exact measurements beside them, so it works even if you never cooked by feel.

- Practical substitutions for when the ingredient or cut of meat isn't there.

- Recipe cards saved from the church kitchen tin, plus cut-out cards to print and use at the stove.

- Blank recipe cards, family pages and 5 printable worksheets to keep your own family's cooking.

- Glossary, "Where to Look Next," and a 1-page Quick-Start Checklist.

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