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In The Cornbread Bible: A Recipe Storybook, Dr. Jennifer Shambrook not only shares recipes for some great, low-cost, Southern cooking, but also shares the stories behind the recipes. The people who created the recipes and the people for whom the recipes were created populate this recipe storybook. Dr. Shambrook is a comfortable storyteller and you will find yourself relating these stories as your family or guests eat the down home recipes from this book. With this book, you will find it very easy to be a good cook. You will also find these recipes to be very easy on your food budget. Shambrook cooks with an eye to saving time, effort, and expense. The book offers both recipes and the principles behind the recipes. This enables the reader to follow step by step as they learn the principles, then use these recipes for inspiration to create their own delicious cornbread dishes. There are also general tips such as how to care for cast iron cookware or tell when your oil is hot enough to fry a hushpuppy or corndog. Included in the book are a variety of breads, including many gluten free options. Also included are side dishes (greens with cornmeal dumplings), main dishes (pot roast pie), and a delicious recipe for gluten-free corndogs. There are recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You will enjoy reading the stories behind the recipes as you learn to fry hushpuppies, make the Chihuahua Muffins, or cook hardy cornbread-topped entrees. One of the best chapters in the book is the section on creating cornbread dressing or stuffing. Here, the author shares her version of an easy-to-follow recipe for dressing that has been passed down in her family for generations. But, she doesn’t stop there, she offers the principles of how to custom tailor your dressing to suit the tastes of your family and friends. You will find The Cornbread Bible: A Recipe Storybook informative, entertaining and chock full of useful tips that will help you be a better cook while lowering your food budget at the same time. Also learn about other dishes prepared with cornmeal batter, such as hushpuppies, corndogs, chicken'n'dressing, cornbread squash casserole, and much more. Whether you are a new cook, or a long time chef, a Southerner or someone who just enjoys a good story, you will enjoy The Cornbread Bible. You will find yourself referring to both the stories and the recipes again and again.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (November 30, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 76 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1479391522
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1479391523
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.18 x 10 inches
Reviewer: Grandma
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Cornbread Like You've Never Seen It Before!
Review: I have to tell you, I have a bone to pick with Jennifer Shambrooke, author of The Cornbread Bible: A Recipe Storybook! She left out my favorite brand of cornmeal!Very few meals are ever served south of the Mason-Dixon that are not accompanied by cornbread. The ones that are usually feature biscuits. If you're very lucky you'll get both! What you think of as "real" cornbread depends on where you were raised. Some of us were taught that yellow corn was for horses or that only Yankees put flour in their cornbread. Raised in a family where the Southern half was greatly pained by the spoonful of sugar that always topped my grits, even I was shocked enough to yell "Oh My God!" right out loud in the middle of the night when I read Jennifer's recipe for her daughter's Sweet Cornbread! Only for love would any Southern girl put so much sugar in the cornbread . . and I sure hope I didn't wake the neighbors.Chockful of a lot of things cornbread (not quite everything), the Kindle version of the book features an easy-to-navigate Table of Contents that correctly links every recipe. Yes, there are pictures and you will find some real treats here. The Chihauhua Muffins look particularly scrumptious, corn dogs without the deep fryer - great football-watching food. I think my son-in-law might find a batch of those waiting for his next watching-football day off.One tiny note: Follow Jennifer's directions for seasoning your cast iron, but you'll need to repeat that at least three times for a good season. The "preseasoned" coating most Lodge cast iron comes with these days is really there only to keep the pan from rusting before you get a chance to do a good job on it. Never mind. If you follow Southern tradition and turn out cornbread frequently your pan will be seasoned in no time!Great job!

Reviewer: GinnyReader
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Yummy (and the cornbread ain't bad, either!)
Review: This book was full of recipes but fuller still of stories that took me down memory lane! When Dr. Shambrook told of her aunts, events from my lifetime flashed back. My mother's family was large and there were six sisters. They were musical, they cooked and they had to live frugally. I remember my grandmother's fluffy biscuits with her canned cherries and syrup-butter on top! My dad had only one sister, but during holidays you'd think there were 15! And the cornbread dressing - to die for! We had so much good food at that grandmother's house -- and, no recipes, but lots of tasting. Cornbread with sugar was a big no-no, and even cornbread with eggs was not really looked upon as a good thing. The stories are great, especially if you grew up in the south near your family. I can't wait to try the Chihuahua muffins -- they'd make a great Super Bowl treat! Wonderful book!!

Reviewer: Kootenay Annie
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Oh, how I'm looking forward to this book!
Review: When I was small a very special treat ( later I found out it was broke day before pay day!) We had what my Mother called "Johnny Cake". The only time she made it was for supper, and it would be served with a couple of sausages for Dad, and Mom and I would have margarine and home made syrup over large slabs of cake. It had a crunchy taste, and the marj. and the vanilla flavour home made syrup were great. I always wanted 2 slices but 1 and a bit was all I could eat. I hope to recreate that dish here. It was one of her depression menu items, only to be made in times of destperation I later learnt.Oh, have had it in resturants since. The last time was with a dish of chilli, but man that wedge of cormbread was dry, and nothing to help in no butter jam or anything else! Not my mother's at all.I was raised in Canada and cornbread really seems to be more of a souther states item. Now I can have it hot and with butter and syurp.

Reviewer: Melinda White
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Heartwarming book
Review: I bought this two days ago when it was a special deal. My sister's always describing her latest experiment with cornbread and how great it tastes. This was just going to be my goto cookbook for a basic cornbread recipe. I didn't realize that this would be such an enjoyable, heartwarming book to read. It reminded me that the best thing in life is family and the joy of living close to each other.The cooking part is great too. How to season your pan and the importance of heating it in the oven before filling. The whys of each ingredient and how that impacts the final taste. And a different recipe for each of her family members who wanted their cornbread cooked their way.My skillet and cornbread mix is out and ready to fix. I can't wait to try it.

Reviewer: Cynthia Hill Durham
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Enjoyed the whole thing
Review: I enjoyed the whole Cornbread Bible experience, especially her family stories. I would like Dr. Shambrook to know that the plural of Fritos is Fritos, not Frito's, which implies possession and the you need to use the insert function of word to insert the symbol for degrees, not just use the asterisk symbol. Picky, I know, but the lady has a PhD and should know these things, I think.That being said, Cornbread Bible is a delightful book with dozens of useful recipes and techniques. I enjoyed every word. Dr. Shambrook was lucky in her upbringing and knows it. She was blessed with a wonderful family as well as fantastic extended family that all loved to cook and knew their family history. I especially appreciated her attitude on sugar in cornbread. I do not care for sugar in cornbread myself, and suspicion that the reason sugar was not used in the South was that after the War Between the States most family were too poor to afford much sugar.I got Cornbread Bible for free, which is almost criminal, because this is a book well worth buying. Every person in America should own this book, as cornbread is an American creation and belongs on every American table.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I flat out love this book! The stories about the food are really what make it my view, bringing it to life in a way few cookbooks ever manage. It is supremely practical as well, and lets you make endless variations to suit your own taste and circumstances. Living in the great white North, I have never even seen self-rising cornbread mix. In fact, I have only ever seen two varieties of yellow cornmeal: coarse and fine. I therefore appreciate instructions on how to make my own mix to use in these recipes. While the author has her own preferences she does include a range to please everyone. I even ended up purchasing my very own cast iron corn stick pan. She is right; cornbread does taste better when made in cast iron. The formatting is well done and permits easy navigation.

Reviewer: Honestalways
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I love cornbread and so this book is an absolute must for me - cornmeal/polenta is a great alternative to flour.

Reviewer: trayy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: interesting

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: If like me you are obsessed with corn Bread like me, this is a delightful and informative little book. Highly recommended.