Mother Alberta Hines' Crown Winner Cookbook (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781088085059)

Jeanette welcomes readers with Mother Alberta's approach incorporating extraordinary recipes. She admired her mom's recipes using fresh ingredients. Centered in the kitchen, this magnificent cookbook guides aspiring and experienced cooks through many years of preparing homemade dishes. Mom makes cooking fresh, homemade southern meals not only inviting but doable. She addresses the concerns of contemporary cooks with regard to time, health, energy, and the environment and appeals to modern tastes with written recipes and cooking techniques. Mother Alberta's Cookbook contains a year's worth of wonderful recipes and a menu for everyday meals, holidays, and special occasions. For traditional, this book offers her favorites such as Ambrosia Salad, Exquisite Japanese Fruit Pie, Rocky Mount North Carolina Barbeque, Sweet Potato Pudding, Creamed Corn Pudding, Plain Pound Cake, and Sour Dough Starter Bread. Many of her recipes use traditional ingredients in a contemporary fashion.

For those who feel like they cook the same thing all the time, this book offers many new ideas, recipes, and menus for family dinners, special holiday menus, and celebrations.

For the younger generation who wants to learn simple recipes, this book offers basic recipes such as Turkey tacos, Chicken Salad, Banana Pancake, Breakfast Salmon, Fried Potatoes with Onions, and Easy Baked Beans.