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Southern Heirloom Cooking: 200 Treasured Feel-Good Recipes Kindle Edition

by Norma Jean McQueen Haydel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Everyone who knew Norma Jean McQueen Haydel knew that she’s a supreme cook and that she was the steward of the McQueen family recipes. But she didn’t measure when she cooked. Or write things down.

Norma Jean’s brother Horace got to worrying about this. He cooked, too, but his repertoire wasn’t as vast as Norma Jean’s. So he began bothering her about writing down how she made her many dishes.

“I didn’t want Norma Jean’s recipes, or our Mama’s recipes, to be lost. We have kids coming. And other folks love to eat at my sister’s table, too.”

So the two got busy recording their treasured family recipes from the South. This collection of more than 250 dishes includes their best ones. “This is food you will absolutely enjoy,” said Horace. “Traditional, full of marvelous flavor, ‘enhanced’ old-timeys.”

Norma Jean and Horace put together the full line-up: crawfish bisque, poblano cream soup, wilted spinach salad, smothered pork ribs, zesty broasted chicken, baked catfish, cajun rice jambalaya, stuffed cornbread, five-flavor pound cake, margarita pie, and on and on.

Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Norma Jean McQueen Haydel began cooking at an early age and, after a few years, could create a meal that rivaled her mother’s. Norma Jean and her husband, Joe, raised three boys. Then she pursued a career in banking and retired as a vice-president. Norma Jean and Joe lived in Natchez, Mississippi.

Horace McQueen tended fruit trees and vegetable and herb gardens for many years. He loved collecting and cooking Southern recipes from family friends. As a publisher's representative for nearly forty years, he sold many, many cookbooks and dreamed of creating this book—one that could be read and used. Horace and his wife Carleen lived in Houston, Texas.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01ERNSI6S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Good Books (June 7, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 7, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 28243 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 503 pages
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Anne Wingate
5.0 out of 5 stars All of It Is Amazing
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2020
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Usually when I review a cookbook I go through and mark the ones I want to make. This is different. It would be easier to mark the ones I don't want to make.
I don't want to make the ones with alcohol that isn't cooked, because my church forbids it.
I would love to make the ones with game but no one in my family hunts or fishes.
Other than those, everything looks great. I feared I wouldn't be able to find some ingredients, but Amazon came through. The ones that weren't on Amazon the book tells how to make.
I don't have access to dewberries, but I can substitute blackberries, which I can get.
So do you want a taste of the South? Forget all those books with fancy foods that you won't find in the real South. This is the real stuff.
Brings back my mother. Brings back my grandmother. Brings back the days when my kids and I foraged on the edge of fields.
Buy the book. Make the food. Eat the food. Loosen your belt. That's okay.
You're in the amazing South.
And by the way this amazing displaced Southerner in Utah turned 77 today.
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Alexandra
4.0 out of 5 stars Great truly Southern recipes!
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2021
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A lovely book with great photo's, easy to follow recipes. I have parted ways with many cookbooks but kept a highly valuable few. This has been added proudly to the list!
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Charla Hoyler
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Gift
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2021
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Gifted a friend. Recipes are really good and easy to follow and read. My friend LOVES it! Highly recommend!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good Cookbook, But Could Be Much Better
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2019
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I bought this at a local shop and then I've purchased another copy off Amazon for a friend who keeps asking where I'm getting all these recipes for the food I've been bringing to various events. Which goes to show that it's actually a very good cookbook. BUT... I removed a few stars for the following reasons:

First of all, there are a large majority of recipes that call for some processed food items (like cream of mushroom canned soup, or Velveeta). It was surprising to find this in a cookbook with the title Southern Heirloom Cooking. I'm not much of a total health food snob (and this is a comfort food cookbook after all), but I do try my hardest to stick to whole food ingredients because not only it is better for the body, it tastes better! I usually have a rule that I'll follow the recipe the first time so that I know what the dish is supposed to turn out like, but I've usually ended up modifying the ones with processed ingredients.

Which brings me to the other reason I took off a star: I wouldn't recommend this for a person who isn't terribly familiar with cooking. Some of these recipes aren't terribly detailed in instructions, but if you cook frequently, you can probably figure out what you're supposed to do. I've also figured out pretty quickly where I need to modify the amount of a certain spice or oil; a beginner cook probably wouldn't catch it.

The recipes really are very good though! I don't use this cookbook daily because of how rich everything is, but it's pretty much my go-to when I have a birthday, potluck, party, etc. It definitely has most of the cuisine that you think of when you think of Southern food, from all areas of the country. Gumbo, fried green tomatoes, BBQ, pies, chili, biscuits, gravies, ham, etc.

There are pictures throughout the book and the binding is very sturdy. My copy is surviving splatters, crumbs, there's pages are creased and I write in it like crazy when I make modifications to recipes and I'm sure this book will hold up to abuse for quite a long time.
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Christopher Frye
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Cook Book
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2020
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Being new to the south, it gave my wife and I recipes for the new favorite we have found in Mississippi
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Virginia Flores
5.0 out of 5 stars cute old recipes
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2019
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I will try some for the holidays - thanks
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LouRevue
4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good selection of recipes
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2020
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I'm no chef or even a basic cook so I'm learning at the moment. This cookbook seems to have quite a few tasty looking dishes I'm looking to try out.
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William J. Barnes
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2017
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A wonderful cookbook and have recommended to friends and family.
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Duncan Wilkie
2.0 out of 5 stars Not particularly exciting or useful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2019
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Didn't like this - deleted it from my kindle. None of the recipies were even worth considering. Tins of condensed soup, as an ingredient, really?
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