CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR FIRST PULPWOOD QUEEN COOKBOOK!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR FIRST PULPWOOD QUEEN COOKBOOK!

But this is NOT just a cookbook – it’s a book of recipes from our favorite childhood memories, along with a 650-1000 word story, and photo of the person who either made the dish for you or taught you how to make it.

I’m looking for submissions from reader AND author members. I plan to have it finished and published by the holidays – I think it will make great hostess gifts and special Christmas presents. (All contributors will receive a free copy).

If you’d like to submit your story for consideration, please send your Recipe, 650-1000 word Story, Photo of the person who gave you the recipe, taught you how to make it, or is connected to the memory, and your bio by September1st to mandy.pulpwoodqueen@gmailcom

BIG THANKS to Julia Brewer Daily who let me use her submission as an example. I’m so excited to see what you send, and I can’t wait to learn more about you during the process. So many stories! I KNOW our readers are going to love it!

Mamoo’s Biscuits Julia Brewer Daily

1 cup plain flour

¼ teaspoon baking soda

2 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

2 Tablespoons Crisco shortening (lard)

½ cup buttermilk

Makes 4 biscuits

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease cast iron skillet with a thin layer of shortening or butter. Mix dry ingredients in a bowl and add buttermilk. Roll out the dough and cut it into circles. (Instead of cutting the biscuits, you may pat them in your hands to form “cathead” biscuits. Allow the biscuits to touch in the pan to increase their height. Bake for 18-20 minutes until lightly browned. Brush melted butter on top and split, and add favorite toppings. Enjoy!

Mamoo

One of my favorite recipes from my childhood is my maternal grandmother’s Biscuits recipe. I remember standing at Mamoo’s yellow Formica topped table and watching her mix the ingredients in a large wooden bowl. She scooped the dry ingredients into a mound, dug a hole, and poured the buttermilk into the indention. Using her hand, she stirred the wet mixture and rotated it until all ingredients were incorporated into the sticky mixture. She dusted the tabletop with a dash of flour and placed the dough onto it. Using a rolling pin, she pressed until the floured damp bread reached the height and width she desired. She handed me round aluminum cutters with red wood knobs, and I cut circles and placed them on a buttered black iron skillet. She thrust the large pan into a hot oven, and we waited, not so patiently. Smells wafted into the kitchen, and we poured thick sweet cane syrup into a pitcher and gathered strawberry, blackberry, and plum preserves jars next to butter. As soon as the biscuits browned, we turned them out onto a blue and white platter, and hands began to grab and decorate them with sweet and savory toppings. Yum! Every time I smell baking, it takes me back to that kitchen with my Mamoo standing beside me and butter dripping off my chin. I still have my great-grandmother’s dough bowl, and my father grew sugar cane and cooked the juice into the syrup we enjoyed.

Julia Brewer Daily is a Texan with a southern accent. She holds a B.S. in English and a M.S. degree in Education from the University of Southern Mississippi. She has been a Communications Adjunct Professor at Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi, and Public Relations Director of the Mississippi Department of Education and Millsaps College, a liberal arts college in Jackson, MS. She was the founding director of the Greater Belhaven Market, a producers’only market in a historic neighborhood in Jackson, and even shadowed Martha Stewart. As the Executive Director of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi (300 artisans from 19 states) which operates the Mississippi Craft Center, she wrote their stories to introduce them to the public.

She is a member of the Writers’ League of Texas, the Women Fiction Writers’ Association, The Official Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Bookclub, the San Antonio Writers’ Guild, Writing the West, and the Women’s National Book Association. Her debut novel, No Names to Be Given, published in 2021 and her second novel will publish in September, 2022. She is the host ofAuthors Over 50 podcast to celebrate writers who launched their first book over the age of fifty.

A lifelong southerner, she now resides on a ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas, with her husband Emmerson and Labrador retrievers, Memphis Belle and Texas Star.