Combining old-fashioned know-how and modern-day ingenuity, this indispensable book offers literally hundreds of ways to make time spent in the kitchen both productive and enjoyable. As an experienced homesteader and doyenne of her own country kitchen, Deborah S. Tukua has spent years collecting nuggets of wisdom from friends and neighbors who share her way of life in rural Tennessee. Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom represents the distillation of a community's tried and true techniques, many of which have been handed down through generations. This book also has dozens of recipes for preserved food such as dried tomatoes, corn cob syrup, canning chili beans, etc., as well as recipes for dozens of dishes, including baked maple chicken, blender quiche, and vegetable cheese chowder. Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom is perfect for anyone who wishes to bring a fresh country breeze into a city or suburban kitchen. (5 3/4 x 8 1/2, 324 pages, b&w photos, recipes)
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Taking a page from one of Heloise's household hints books and adding decorating tips, recipes, and homespun kitchen advice, Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom: Tips, Shortcuts, and Recipes from a Country Home offers useful, interesting, and sometimes odd nuggets of advice on how to make life in your kitchen more pleasant and how to add authentic country influences to your home.
The chapters in Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom are divided into "Country Kitchen Décor"; "Organization, Efficiency, Cleanup, and Safety"; "Baking and Cake Decorating"; "Cooking"; "Food Storage and Preserving"; and "From the Recipe Box." "Learning how to make many of the things your family loves and needs is so gratifying," says author Deborah Tukua. "Making things yourself guarantees the quality of the product and your personal satisfaction." For those who like home improvement and decorating projects, this book offers many tips on how to countrify your home using items you probably already have around. Tip number 32: "A snazzy way to dress up straight-back chairs in the kitchen is to place a colorful vest on each." While many of the hints help spark new ideas, many are gratuitous ("Never leave anything flammable such as a towel, potholder, etc., on top of any stove") or rather bizarre ("Don't make cheese and fresh bread in the same day as one will not turn out properly").
Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom gathers the homey advice your mother, aunts, and old neighbor lady keep telling you--some of it's good, some you already know, some is just plain strange. --Dana Van Nest
From Publishers Weekly
In Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom: Tips, Shortcuts, and Recipes from a Country Home, Deborah S. Tukua (Pearls of Country Wisdom: Hints from a Small Town on Keeping Garden and Home) serves up 456 tips and simple recipes for sauces, syrups and staples that run the gamut from advice on kitchen decor and creative home touches (Tip 151: "Pipe cleaners can be shaped into numbers and used on birthday cakes! Stand them up on the cake and light them like a candle. They'll burn bright and fast") to making crab quiche. The founding editor of Coming Home magazine has separated the items into sections on organization and general safety, baking, cooking and food preparation and storage.
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Two of my favorite recipes in PKW are the Pumpkin-Banana pancakes and Pumpkin-Pear Pie. Deborah won a statewide cooking contest with this pie she makes from the pears we have growing at home. It is a featured favorite on our holiday table. I feel really special because I am blessed to have this author and cook preparing these fabulous country dishes for our family. Yes, I am married to Deborah and do attest here to her good cooking. Hope you enjoy these recipes as well as the helpful tips she has combined to make life in the kitchen enjoyable and productive.
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