Hometown Recipes: Recipes From Small Towns Around The Country

Hometown Recipes contains over 150 favorite recipes sent to Ella Mae Tucker from her readers during 40 years of writing her recipe exchange column for the Springfield News Leader of Springfield, Missouri. Hometown Recipes is a wonderful collection of home-style recipes from the Midwest and the country at large. Just a sampling of the delicious and unusual recipes:

Breads and Cakes: Corn Bread and Corn Fritters, Fried Bread, Peach Bread, Butterscotch Rum Cake, Cherry Pudding Cake, Chocolate Wacky Cake, Dirt Cake, Mississippi Mud, Raw Apple Cake, Oatmeal Cake, Gooey Cake

Pies: Blueberry Pie, Butterscotch Pie, Mock Apple Pie, Custard Pie, Praline Pie, Raisin Pie, Rhubarb Pie, Sweet Potato Pie, Single and Two Crust Pies

Meats: Shopping Day Beef Stew, Crock Pot Steak, Meat Loaf, Pepper Steak, Swiss Steak, Seven Layer Casserole, Beef Stroganoff

Soups and Salads: Bean Salad, Cauliflower Salad, Hot Potato Salad, Kraut Salad, Frozen Pink Salad, Carrot Salad, Wilted Lettuce, Perfect Chicken and Vegetable Salads

Vegetables: Asparagus Loaf, Acorn Squash, Black-eyed Peas, Candied Yams, Corn Pudding, Fast Cabbage, Fried Apples, Fried Corn Meal Mush, Friendly Data, Harvard Beats, Stuffed Potatoes, Cabbage and Pepper Recipes