Thrifty Finds - July (Week 2) Ripley HS Band and Ozark Recipes

What's Cooking in Ripley, Tennessee, published in 1983. Recipes contributed by the band members of Ripley High School and their families. The recipes range from new (for the time) to many treasured old family recipes.

There is a section titled "Men Only" that caught my eye. It contains lots of recipes for venison and something called "Molded Potato Salad". Yep, that's EXACTLY what it is - molded in Southern parlance means gelatin (jello) - so this guy took a perfectly fine potato salad and mixed it with jello, placed that on top of a thin veneer of pickle juice laced gelatin in a molded pan and chilled until firm. And here I thought the Pistachio Cloud my mom was always pushing on me was the worst "salad" I have encountered.

Aunt Ella's Ozark Recipes, published in 1993. Traditional family recipes from the author's aunt who lived her entire life in the Ozarks. Since Arkansas is considered the South, it's no surprise that many of the recipes are similar to those found in church cookbooks in my area. The best and largest chapter was Desserts, lots of yummy cake recipes to try!