These recipes come before the days of fat-free recipes and the author warns-"Dieters beware!" "Comfort Food!" and that it's "Hazardous to your waistlines!"

Each recipe is sectioned off into categories, making it easier to locate your favorite food, breads, salads, jellies, vegetable dishes, and soups fill this book to the brim. You can almost smell the food!

Ms. Cobb purposely neglects putting in the fat content and calories per recipe, with the mention that several of the contributors lived to be over 90 years of age, so that the reader can just cook without worry.

The author encourages you to add your own ingredients, subtract a few of theirs, and to experiment with your taste buds.

A few of the scrumptious dishes include: popovers, potato muffins, curry chicken, chicken parmesan, roast duck, gumbo, fish fritters, chili, liver and onions, nut cake, gingerbread, meringue, rhubarb pie, cathedral cookies, easy fudge, bean soup, 24-hour slaw, fried okra, grape jelly, and many more!

LB Cobb is an attorney who grew up in Tennessee, and who now lives in Houston with her husband. Ms. Cobb is a mother of two and grandmother to five.

As a woman who loves to experiment with cooking, I encourage you to get a copy of LB Cobb's book OLD FASHIONED RECIPES FOR MODERN COOKS today. Your tummy will thank you....

Recipes You Remember
L.B. Cobb is a mystery writer who also loves to cook. She is an attorney who grew up in Tennessee and practiced geology, then law. Her first novel is Splendor Bay and she and her husband now live in Houston, Texas.

She has dedicated this cookbook to Clara Nixon Dawson, Linnie Belle Snodderly, Martha Wilson, Edith Burkhart and Kathryne Cobb. In fact, this cookbook is inspired by dinner-table conversations. When Martha developed a "food fetish" and started to watch the Food Channel (how I can relate), she began practicing her new-found culinary skills. Martha then came across her mother's recipes.

In the meantime, L.B. Cobb was researching her own family recipes. What resulted was 175 Southern and Southwestern dishes. She encourages each cook to experiment a bit and to make the recipes their own. Each recipe in the Index is followed by an abbreviation for one of the ladies who created or contributed the recipe. So, for Clara Dawson, you will see (CD).

Some of the recipes include headnotes and some have secrets only Grandma would tell you. Little secrets like sifting the flour twice before making a cake or how to make a perfect pie crust.

The recipes are divided into sections:

Biscuits & Breads
Main Courses: Chicken, Other Poultry, Seafood and Meats.
Desserts: Cakes, Tarts & Patties, Pie, Cookies and Other Desserts.
Soups
Salads
Dressings & Sauces
Vegetable Side Dishes
Pickles & Relishes
Jams & Jellies
Beverages
A handy page of Measurements & Conversions is also included.

One cookie I tasted this Christmas at my aunt's home is called: Cathedral Cookies. And, believe it or not, I found it in this cookbook! It is the same recipe. I was also thinking of making some Pecan Pralines since they are just delicious. The recipe is also so easy to make and is on pg. 53. Then my husband is always talking about tortilla soup and so I was very pleased to find a recipe.

Other Recipes Include: Cilantro Dressing, Whipped Onion-Garlic Butter, Fried Tomatoes with Thyme and Garlic, Stuffed Mushrooms, Watermelon Rind Preserves and Pineapple-Cherry Jam.

Delicious!

~The Rebecca Review