I did not try any of these recipes, and to be honest only gave it a cursory glance. The book is riddled with "mountain Ozark" dialect and I really hate reading like that. Recipes for opossums, groundhogs and terrapin are alongside beef, chicken and pork. There are sections on bread, vegetables, desserts, jellies and pickles. Even one for making soap and another for making ink. I would probably like it if it weren't so hard to get past the dialect. A note, the recipes themselves are written without the blasted dialect. ( )