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Free Cookbooks and Booklets

Mary Emma Allen
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COUNTRY KITCHEN
FREE COOKBOOKS & BOOKLETS
By Mary Emma Allen

Cooks often obtain, through refunding and visiting manufacturers' web
sites, free cook books and booklets of various types. This also is a great way to acquire gifts to give on special occasions.

Sometimes these books will require proofs of purchase and a small
handling fee. Other times they're given simply for visiting a web site.

Books From Mailing Lists

When you're on the mailing list, because you sent for a refund or
registered on a manufacturer's web site, you may receive booklets without even sending for them.

My daughter recently received Tyson's "Fresh Chicken Solutions". This
quarterly issue, referred to as their healthy living one, contains recipes,hints about cooking for a healthier heart, chicken soup secrets, and information about garlic.

There also was a 30c coupon for Grands! Biscuits.

You can go to www.tyson.com for more recipes and product information.
This is just one of the various booklets available by visiting web sites and/or getting on mailing lists.

Gift Items

One friend sends for these items by refunding and visiting
manufacturers' web sites throughout the year. She saves the cookbooks and booklets to give as gifts.

For instance, Aunt Susie may collect dessert recipes. Mom may like
cookbooks from different countries. Daughter Sandy could favor bread recipes. So the booklets and recipes sent out by the flour and yeast companies would be to her liking.

We've received booklets and cook books from Fleischmann's Yeast, Gold
Medal Flour, Bisquick, Campbell's Soup, Hershey's, and various other food products with recipes utilizing their ingredients. Some of these books might require a shipping and handling charge, while others were
completely free.

Explore the realm of cookbooks and booklets that you can obtain for free to add to your collections and to give as gifts.

Party Chicken

My daughter makes "Party Chicken" for special occasions. It's not a
recipe from a cooking booklet, but one handed down through her husband's family.

Wrap 8 boned chicken breasts with bacon. Sprinkle 4 ounce can of dried beef on bottom of greased baking dish. Place chicken on top of beef.

Pour over this a sauce made of 1 can cream of mushroom soup and 1/2 pint sour cream. Bake at 300 degrees F., uncovered, for 3 hours, or until chicken is done.

Serve with rice or mashed potatoes.

(For lower calories, remove skin from chicken and use low fat soup and
sour cream.)

(Mary Emma Allen has been writing cooking columns for 30 years and
has compiled a family cookbook. She is compiling some of her
experiences into "Tales From a Country Kitchen." Visit her web site for more cooking articles:
http://homepage.fcgnetworks.net/jetent/mea; e-mail: me.allen@juno.com)

This article provided by the Family Content Archives at: http://www.Family-Content.com