From Mama Ozella's house in Selma, Alabama
Your mama never wrote it down. Ozella did.
Six large-print books: the old Southern recipes, and the old ways of keeping a house.
Six large-print books from Mama Ozella: four for the kitchen and two for the rest of the house. What her mama and her Grandmama Lula knew by heart, every pinch, every capful and every "till it looks right", is turned into cups, spoons and plain steps.
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Why six books and not one big one
A book gets heavy when it tries to do everything. So Mama Ozella split hers up: four cookbooks, for every day, the holidays, the small table and the sweets, and two books for the rest of the house, one for cleaning and one for the old house tricks.
Each book stands on its own. Together they cover the whole year, from New Year's black-eyed peas to the November walk around the house to seal it up before winter.
Mama Ozella's Whole Shelf
All six books. 261 recipes, 65 cleaning methods and 64 house tricks.
One by one: $124 · Together: $79 · You save $45
The six books
Every book is a large-print PDF in US Letter size. Read it on a tablet, or print the pages you need and keep them by the stove or the cleaning cupboard. The cookbooks give amounts for a full table and for one or two plates. The house books give every mix measured and a safety box with every method.
Mama Ozella's Old-Fashioned Kitchen
Never flat biscuits or mushy greens again
The everyday book. Greens that are never boiled to mush, pinto beans that come out soft, cornbread in the skillet, fried chicken the 1930s way, and the sides everybody fights over. Plus the lunchroom rolls and chili mac the children asked for by name.
Mama Ozella's Holiday Table
Thanksgiving to New Year's, and never a dry dressing again
A seven-day countdown to the big meal, a turkey thaw chart and one plan for one oven. Amounts for a big table or a small holiday. Then Christmas morning, New Year's peas and greens, potluck dishes and the day after.
Mama Ozella's Supper for One
Warm Southern plates for seniors living alone, about $3 a day
After Earl passed, Ozella had to learn to cook for one. This is what she figured out: one pot that turns into three suppers, loaf-pan dinners, ten-minute breakfasts, a freezer plan, and soups for about a dollar a bowl.
Mama Ozella's Cake & Pie Box
Never a dry pound cake again
The recipe cards from Grandmama Lula's shoebox, written out plain. Cold-oven pound cake, sweet potato pie, chess pie, peach cobbler, banana pudding, and the old ones nobody makes anymore, like tea cakes and stack cake.
Mama Ozella's Clean House
The whole house with 5 plain bottles
Fifty years in the same old house, kept clean the way her mama did it: vinegar, baking soda, salt, lemon, peroxide and rags. The bathroom without bleach, towels that drink again, the stovetop without scrubbing, mildew, windows and the porch, with every mix measured.
Mama Ozella's House Tricks
50 years, never once an exterminator
A bug comes for three things: water, supper and a way in. The old ways to keep ants, mice, pantry moths and wasps out without poison, plus a pantry that outlasts the power, a house that gets through winter, and what never to waste a dollar on.
What these books do
They write down what was never written
Most of these ways lived in somebody's hands, not on paper. Here every pinch and every capful has a number, so you are not left guessing.
They cook for a crowd or for one
Most recipes give two sets of amounts: one for the Sunday table and one for one or two plates, with the pan size to match.
They help when it goes wrong
Dry dressing, a cake that sank, a towel that still smells. Every recipe and every method comes with a short fix-it list, so a bad day doesn't end in the trash.
Old ways. Plain words. Big print.
Six books from Mama Ozella's shelf: four for the kitchen and two for the rest of the house.
Get all six — $79