Grease in the Skillet: Old Style Cooking Eric Drain Author

Welcome to Grease in the Skillet, Old Style Cooking cook book. I hope you will enjoy all of these recipes as much as my husband and I do. The recipes in this book have been created by Erik or myself, or have been gathered from friends and family over the years. We have made each and every recipe in this book, and have found them to be easy or fairly easy to make, and have a wonderful taste. The aroma that fills our home is a plus as well, and a remembrance of time past.When thinking of the title for this cook book, it was from the remembrance from my own grandmother’s kitchen, where grease as we call it, and Lard as she called it was utilized in daily cooking. A metal grease canister always sat on her old style kitchen stove, in the middle of the back burners. Every time my grandmother would cook her daily meals, she would add the leftover grease from fried bacon, chicken, and different meats to the grease canister. Every time my grandmother would go to cook a meal, she would pull the Cast Iron Skillet from the oven, where she placed it after every meal with the lid on top. She would take one of her big metal cooking spoons and slap 1 to 2 heaping spoonfuls of grease from the grease canister into the skillet, turn it on high to get it hot and ready to fry. This was back in the day when skillet fried foods were daily living.I love the smell and taste of old style, down home cooking. There is just nothing that beats the aroma.My wish is for my cook book to find a spot in your kitchen that will be an everyday go to in preparing your family’s daily meals.May you have fun with each and every recipe, and remember the grease in the skillet.ENJOY!From my kitchen to yours,Eric Drain