The first cookbook I chose is the Southern Cook Book, by Marion Brown. This book is great for all those that love their southern food, but is also quite handy for those looking to try the wonderful miracle of southern home cookin.
Mrs. Brown starts of the book with a preface that gives a record of how she obtained her many recipes. She used the North Carolina Chambers of Commerce to ask other states and the people of North Carolina, to send recipes for this book. Mrs. Brown recieved thousands of recipes, giving her a wide variety of good wholesome food to choose from. Also, Mrs. Brown lists where each individual recipe came from in the book.
As you continue into this book, you begin to realize that you are looking a meal. The appetizers and drinks are up front, followed by the light foods, then moving on to the meats and veggies. After that it's into the desserts, and finally, an after meal snack. Perfect!
The set up of the book gives the "chef" the ability to go to the different areas to access what he/she needs for the given moment of the meal.
Sadly, being an e-book, there aren't any wonderful pictures of the food to look at. However, the set up of each page allowed for someone to print out a recipe and gave enough room to make notes while cooking.
The next book I browsed is Southern Practical and Receipt Book. This book is great for those looking for a wide variety of southern food.
The book jumps around on it's recipes, but the recipes jump around in groups, meats with meats, sugars with sugars, etc. This set up is bad for those just trying to look at something, that is unless you use it VERY often.
At the end of the book there is a bibliography, which gives reference to where the recipes come from.
This is another e-book, and again with no pictures, but the text isn't quite as spread apart and there are multiple recipes on a single page, so it isn't quite as easy to put notes down while cooking.
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