The Bluegrass Cooking Clinic - Lexington, KY - Cookbooks by Barbara Bach-Harper

The Bluegrass Cooking Clinic - Lexington, KY

Barbara Harper-Bach is a well known, blue-ribbon cook and artist who has recently published five cookbooks.

"The Pure Kentucky Pie Clinic" cookbook is 145 pages of the best collection of pie recipes in the world, many being award winners. Won third place in the Georgetown pie contest with my apple butter pie in Feb. 2012.

"Thanking The Ping" The Canning Clinic Cookbook teaches the reader the lost art of canning and preserving and includes recipes for the condiments as well as recipes that use home canned goods. As usual, Barbara includes a good read in the text of this 140+ page cookbook, with stories about family and friends in connection with almost every recipe. Barbara is busy preparing for "IGA Meals in Minutes (two television shows based on recipes from the new book. TV station WBKO in Bowling Green, KY will be airing those shows.

Blue Ribbon Breakfasts is a collection of the receipes that Barbara's Blue Ribbon Breakfast committee used when they cooked for a Men's Prayer Breakfast at Anchor Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky. The women prepared breakfast once a month for almost year for 32 hungry church men and when the leader of the group died, the breakfasts were discontinued. The book is dedicated to the leader, Jack Adcock and proceeds from the book will be donated to the church in his name. This book contains amazing recipes for wonderful country breakfasts and brunches with lots of eggy dishes suitable for spring and Easter feasting. Blue Ribbon Breakfasts is $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

The first, The New Turkey Clinic is a "how to" on conquering Thanksgiving by staying ahead of the game for the new Thanksgiving cook. It is a small, ten page booklet that is packed with information. Included in this book are her two winning pie recipes from last year's Great American Pie Contest in downtown Lexington's Fourth of July festivities in which she won first and second place out of fifty five pies. This cookbook is $12.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

The second cookbook From My Mother's Kitchen (43 pgs) is in stores now and is a collection of her mother's, grandmother's, great-grandmother’s and friend's mother's recipes, just in time for Mother's Day. $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping.

The next book "The Christmas Clinic Cookbook", $22.00, contains every recipe you will need for Christmas and is divided into two parts: the sideboard which contains recipes for all the gift giving and family that can be made ahead beginning the day after Thanksgiving with the traditional fruitcake that needs to be basted every day until Christmas with a good Liquor, and the Christmas Table that includes recipes and instructions for elegant holiday feasting from Christmas luncheons to Christmas day dinner. Her second passion as an artist enables her to illustrate her own books.

They are paperback books that she self publishes. This Clinic promotes her cookbooks that are instructional and a collection of Irish family heirloom recipes. She is an award winning cook (first and second in Lexington's Great American Pie Contest 2009) and an award winning artist who does the artwork, typing and publishing of these books.

"If you like to cook and eat and want the very best, try some of the recipes from these cookbooks. They are the best of the best. I am 72 years young and know what good cooking is. The proof is in the pudding y'all."
-Barbara Bach-Harper

Find Barbara's cookbooks in these fine stores:

Lexington, KY
Joseph Beth, Morris Book Shop

Peppermint Palm
Artique
My Favorite Things
Julie's Closet at The Woodlands
Della's Diner
Teodora's Bakery & Cafe

Georgetown, KY
Suzanne's Gift Shop

Louisville, KY
Peppermint Palm

Nashville, GA
Horse Creek Vineyards

Bowling Green, KY
WBKO

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