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You're Cookin' It Country: My Favorite Recipes and Memories Description

Set down in heavily vernacular style—"Daddy's favorite dish was possum. I would get so mad, because I didn't care for possum that well. I loved rabbit. In fact, I had a rabbit the last night I seen Patsy Cline. Squirrel's one of my favorites, too"—Lynn's memories rival her recipes for rustic style. The 150 dishes in this folksy scrapbook lean heavily on ingredients like flour and fat, including breakfast foods like Cat Head Biscuits (made with shortening), Country Sausage Gravy (made by stirring flour and milk into sausage drippings), Hominy Grits (a yummy blend of grits, cheddar cheese, eggs, butter and spices) and traditional Appalachian concoctions like Scotch Eggs, which calls for "bulk pork sausage." Main dishes include backcountry favorites like Country Fried Venison and Kentucky Frog Legs, while desserts run from Gooey Cake and Lemon Whippersnappers to varieties of fudge. Lynn's brief, homespun remarks about husband Doo's family and her Nashville contemporaries (among them Johnny and June Carter Cash and Crystal Gayle) may be a bigger attraction, although they aren't too substantial: e.g., "Tammy Wynette loved to eat, too. Me and Tammy cooked for each other a bunch." Still, country music fans who appreciate the author's music and don't count cholesterol or calories will find this a treat. Photos. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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4.5 Out Of 5 Stars (19 Customer Reviews)  
Reviews for You're Cookin' It Country: My Favorite Recipes and Memories (Hardcover) I wasn't sure what to expect from this cookbook. I've always liked Loretta Lynn's homespun "Mayberry" wisdom; and her anecdotes and narratives, while seemingly disconnected and random, are nevertheless charming and succinct. In her recollections, we meet Johnny and June Carter Cash, and, of course, Patsy Cline. We learn that Cline loved rabbit and that Loretta served fried rabbit the last time she saw Cline before her untimely death in March of 1963. I was prepared not to like this cookbook at first glance...Others, like Naomi Judd's, produce consistently disappointing results, but every recipe we've tried from this book has been, frankly--to my surprise--outstanding. The breakfast casserole is superb, and we served it on Christmas morning, with champagne, to rave reviews. The sausage pinwheels and BLT dip were served with cocktails on New Year's Eve, and everyone asked for the recipes. From the desserts...The fudge pie is excellent! The recipes are easy to cook and don't require any alterations or tampering like some cookbook recipes do. I'm a little squeamish about some of the included recipes, like Kentucky frog legs and possum--her daddy's favorite dish (Loretta tells us that possum meat is tough, and must be cooked slowly and for a long time, and oily)--but these are regional dishes and give the book an historical context. These recipes are on par with what I think are the best cookbooks anywhere--church cookbooks that represent real tried and true recipes from Americans. There's nothing fancy here.
Reviews for You're Cookin' It Country: My Favorite Recipes and Memories (Hardcover) what fun, even if I never make the recipes, the stories were a treat. Rent Coal Miner's daughter to make the stories even better.
Reviews for You're Cookin' It Country: My Favorite Recipes and Memories (Hardcover)
Reading this book,one gets the feeling that they are visiting the Lynns in their home while fixin'supper. The book is a very light hearted read and you get to see how they had to use lots of love and ingenuity feeding all the family. Things may have been tough,but so were the people;and even when the variety may have been not what we are used to today; nobody ever went hungry.

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