Jean Estes is known throughout Chambers County for her homemade cakes, but don’t expect to see any of those recipes.
“I sell my cakes and don’t share those recipes,” says the Wadley resident, who has been cooking since childhood. “I cooked my first cake when I was 9 years old.”
Estes’ grandmother taught her how to make a white cake with chocolate icing, and she hasn’t stopped cooking since then.
Fortunately, her prize-winning biscuit recipe, which uses yeast, is one she is happy to share. “This is the recipe I use when I do catering,” she says. “That sugar activates the yeast.” She got the original recipe from a friend but says, “I changed the ingredients around to suit me. I make up my own recipes.”
White Lily flour is a must for all her recipes, she says. She calls the following recipe “Jean-O’s Yeast Biscuits” because that’s the name her nieces gave her years ago.
Retired from Russell Corp. in LaFayette, she also worked for the Chambers County…
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