Country Kitchen Cookbook: A Collection of Traditional American Home-Cooked Recipes

by Jennifer Boudinot

Celebrate country cooking with over 100 quintessentially American recipes.

Apple pie, hamburgers, fried chicken. Some foods just take us back home. They evoke the feel of summer evenings on the lawn playing baseball, winter gatherings around a roaring fire, spring picnics, and fall football games on campus. For most of us, good times and good food naturally go together, keeping families close and memories strong.

The culinary melting pot that is American country cooking accommodates the great variety of tastes and cultures to be found here, creating a range of specialties that can be called favorites either regionally or across the country. This wonderful cookbook gathers together recipes that have helped define family fun, special occasions, and meals just-like-Mom-used-to-make for generations, including:

• Strawberry Shortcake
• Loaded Baked Potato Soup
• Apple-Smothered Pork Chops
• Beef Stew with Dumplings
• Country Corn Fritters
• Collard Greens and Bacon
• Hush Puppies
• Home-Fried Sausage Casserole
• Chocolate Chip Pancakes
• And more!

With a flexi-bind format that stays open while you cook, Country Kitchen Cookbook provides excellent recipes for anyone who’s a fan of bacon, cheese, buttermilk, savory casseroles, the sweetest pies, or anything deep fried. Perfect for hanging around at home or inviting guests for a late, light supper, there is a recipe for everything, from simple meals and snacks to elaborate four-course dinner party showstoppers.

• ISBN13: 9780785839675
• Publish Date: 25 October 2022 (first published 1 August 2016)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 20 April 2024
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Book Sales Inc
• Imprint: Chartwell Books Inc.,U.S.
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 256
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Country Kitchen Cookbook is a collection of traditional American food collected and developed by Jennifer Boudinot. This edition is due out 24th Aug 2021 from Quarto on their Chartwell imprint. It's 256 pages and will be available in flexibound format.

This is a comprehensive collection of homestyle food. It's clear from the recipes and presentation that the author is both knowledgeable and fond of her subject. The chapters containing the recipes are arranged thematically: breakfasts, snacks & starters, salads & sides, main dishes, and desserts & cakes. Recipe ingredients are listed bullet style in a sidebar. The measurements are given in US standard only. Special tools and ingredients are also listed, along with yields and cooking directions. Nutritional information is not included. The ingredients are all easily sourced at any moderately well stocked grocery store. The index includes both ingredients and recipes listed with page numbers.

The fried pickles, chicken and waffles, and hash brown casserole (called Sunday casserole in the book) are perfect and easy to prepare (and delicious). I haven't tried the other recipes in the book, but I definitely plan to do so.

The photography throughout is superb and the serving suggestions are attractive and appropriate and there is so. much. yummy. food! Nearly all of the recipes are accompanied by one or more color photos.

Four and a half stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes