When Phyllis Stewart’s children, Chad and Sandi, were little, and she made fried apple pies, “they would eat them as

“I have to like sweet potatoes because my husband, Danny, is a sweet potato farmer!” says Mary Clark of Vardaman,

Pat Melton of Bruce has a passion for canning like her mother, the late Ruby Hill. She cans dill pickles

Dot Hardin’s peanut butter cookie recipe goes back to her school days, 1954-57. “It is my favorite cookie recipe. It

Lorna Reifers of Vardaman doesn’t have a secret to making creamed potatoes, but that’s what all the nieces and nephews

Louise Smith of Bruce has been cooking most of her 91 years and says she “can’t keep from cooking every

“I’m a baking man, but I can cook anything. I’ve been cooking for years,” said Jerald Lofton of Calhoun City,

To make the caramel icing for a cake, “lock the door and turn off the phone,” said Sandra Jones of

Patricia Browning of Bruce says her favorite thing in the world to do is cook, and she even filled in

Amanda Poindexter Bennett of Bruce says all of her recipes are “family approved.”