This is Francis Barrineau’s second book with recipes that begin in a bag with the dry ingredients and later when you are ready to complete you simply add the liquid ingredients.

Excerpt from the Introduction:

I had so many requests for another book that I just had to write it. I feel the recipes in this book will work very well for you either in your own kitchen or to give as gifts. The recipes are so varied that I’m sure you will find something to suit each of your needs either for gifts or for yourself. The great thing about these recipes is that you can experiment yourself. Your idea may work better for you and your family. As I always say, “You have bag control.” I like that part because I am not obligated to use everything in the bag recipe, as I would be if I purchased a ready-made mix. It offers much help when you have a dietary need but you want the convenience of pre-packaging. Have a lot of fun bagging and making your own gifts. I’m sure you will come up with some “great ideas” of your own! I hope this book will inspire you and stir up your creative juices. We all have more talent than we give ourselves credit for. So I say to all of you, “GO FOR IT!!”

Frances Barrineau is a native South Carolinian. She was born, educated, married and had her first daughter in Lancaster, South Carolina. After leaving Lancaster for thirty-five years, she returned with her husband to retire there. She and her husband of almost forty-five years have three daughters and five grandchildren, which includes twins. She says, “ I am an American by birth but a Southerner by the grace of God!” “There is really no other place anywhere quite like the South. I love the place of my birth.” Frances had her first cookbook published in 2000, at the age of sixty-three. “Now I have completed by second book at the age of sixty-five, so I say to all of you, you are never too old, to follow a dream!” She loves to create and come up with new ideas. She says, “The new ideas are really no fun without someone to share them with.” The cookbook is her way of sharing recipes and great ideas with her friends and fans.