Description:
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
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