Helen's Kitchen

This cookbook includes recipes and pictures of Helen’s favorite family recipes.Included are appetizers, soups, salads, breads, casseroles, entrees and desserts taste tested by family, firemen, policemen, shut-ins, church family and her many neighbors and friends.

Recipes include Brie en Croute, Reuben Crescent Bake, Eggplant Casserole, Vanilla Pudding, Gingerbread Men Cookies, Sugar Cookies, Jalapeno Poppers, Patriotic Jell-O Salad, Cheese Braid Coffee Cake, Swan Lemon Cream Puffs, Baked Chicken Salad Wreath and many more. Many of these recipes have won ribbons at county fairs and other competitions as shown here.

Now in her mid-eighties, this is Helen’s legacy to her five children, eleven grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.Enjoy!

Author Biography

Helen grew up on a farm in Ohio and as a young child, she helped her Amish grandmother and talented mother work in the kitchen. Here she developed her cooking and baking skills that soon became her lifelong passion, along with sewing and gardening. Now widowed and in her mid-eighties, Helen is the mother of five, grandmother of eleven, and great-grandmother of seventeen. As a Senior Chemist, Senior Research Associate and Director of Research and Development, JoAnn has authored over 150 peer-reviewed articles on industrial cleaning and published in professional journals. She also authored text books, book chapters and “Modern Industrial Cleaning.” She formulated the Daraclean and Daracool product lines for W.R Grace and Metalnox and Optisolve products for Kyzen Corp. In 1998 JoAnn was invited to address the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on the feasibility of replacing CFC’s with environmentally safe products. She lectured at conferences and Universities across the United States on this subject. JoAnn is recently widowed and has one daughter, one granddaughter and an adopted Basset Hound, Bella.