One of the neighborhood grandmothers used to tell my mother: "If Bobby wants to eat chocolate cake for breakfast...let him eat the cake...it has all the things that are good for him...eggs, flour, butter, milk, and chocolate " Not exactly the advice of today, however the ladies of the Kingston Presbyterian Church must have agreed because over half of the 425 recipes in this cookbook are for desserts. Loaded with historic recipes, this cookbook is guaranteed to return you once again to your grandma's kitchen. To be sure that you get the same results that grandma did you will need to use period...

Overview This local history book includes nearly 100 historic Southport recipes and tells the life stories of 54 ladies who contributed their recipes to a 1907 church cookbook. Ruth Reichl, editor of The Modern Library Food Series, notes: "that to fully appreciate an historical cookbook, the challenge is not just to cook the recipes, but to read through the recipes to the lives behind them." That is exactly what this book provides...a look at the lives behind the recipes. As a bonus, the book also includes each of the recipes in the original cookbook, which was published by the St. Philip's...