Mama Ozella's Old-Fashioned Kitchen
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This is the everyday book. Mama Ozella cooked 32 years in a school lunchroom in Selma, Alabama, and learned the rest from her mama and her Grandmama Lula. None of them owned a measuring cup. Here every pinch, every handful and every "till it looks right" is turned into cups, degrees and minutes.
A look inside
What's inside: 101 recipes in 10 parts
- Breakfast at Mama's: creamy grits, skillet biscuits, sausage gravy, salmon croquettes, fried apples
- The Greens Pot: collards that are never boiled, mustard and turnip greens, smothered cabbage, pot likker soup
- Beans, Peas & Rice: pinto beans that come out soft, butter beans, black-eyed peas, red beans, a perfect pot of rice
- The Bread Basket: skillet cornbread, hot water cornbread that holds together, cornbread dressing, hush puppies
- Sunday Dinner: skillet fried chicken the 1930s way, smothered pork chops, oxtails, meatloaf, pot roast, chicken and dumplings
- The Sides Everybody Fights Over: baked mac and cheese, potato salad, deviled eggs, candied yams, fried okra
- Stretching the Week: skillet suppers, stews and soups that feed you for days
- From the Lunchroom: the yeast rolls, chili mac and rectangle pizza the children asked for by name
- Gravies, Sauces & Put-Ups: brown onion gravy without a packet, tomato gravy, pepper vinegar, chow-chow
- A Little Sweet: banana pudding, peach cobbler, sweet potato pie, cold-oven pound cake, tea cakes
Every recipe has
- Ozella's Memory: a few lines about where the dish comes from in her family
- The Old-Fashioned Trick: the one thing her mama did that makes the difference
- Two sets of amounts: one for a full table and one for one or two plates, with the pan size
- Clear steps in big print, then Why It Works and If It Went Wrong
- A large photo of the finished dish and room for your own notes
At the back: a measure card, a "when it goes wrong" index and blank family pages for your own people's recipes.
Format
PDF ebook, US Letter size, large print (body text 16 pt). Read it on a tablet or computer, or print the pages you need. You get the download link right after payment. No account needed.
These are home recipes from an old Southern kitchen. They are not medical or diet advice. Where a price per plate is given, it is a 2026 grocery-store estimate, and your store may differ.
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