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Cooking Through the Counties : Honey Wheat Bread from Dare County, NC
Rare Book Curator, Carolyn Shankle, is cooking her way through SCUA’s vast North Carolina Cookbook Collection! She will have a new recipe each quarterly newsletter. For this installment of Cooking Through the Counties, we’re passing through Dare County, North Carolina, to make Shirley B.’s recipe, Honey-Wheat Bread. This recipe comes to us from the God Willing […]
“Carolyn is Cooking Through the Counties” Icebox Cheese Cookies, Wake County
Rare Book Curator, Carolyn Shankle, is cooking her way through SCUA’s vast North Carolina Cookbook Collection! She will have a new recipe each quarterly newsletter. This issue’s recipe comes from the North Carolina State College Woman’s Club Cook Book [undated, between 1952-1974], submitted by Mrs. H.A. Patten. This club was formed in 1919 with membership […]
Cooking Through the Counties: Crockpot Roast Pork from Hyde County, NC
By Carolyn Shankle This recipe comes from Hoi Toiders’ Recipes and Remembrances issued in 1993 by the Ocracoke Volunteer Fire Department on Ocracoke Island, in Hyde County, North Carolina. Nancy Hartlaub shared her “Crockpot Roast Pork” recipe as part of the fundraiser for the fire department. I assembled all of the ingredients, choosing to use […]
Featured Recipes from the SCUA Cookbook Collection
by Audrey Sage We have selected four books from four of NC’s counties from which to feature a special recipe. It is difficult to choose just one as each of these books contain so many delicious and unique recipes! Carteret County – Down East Recipes – Enjoy Your Age Published by Sea Level Health Care […]
SCUA News: Summer 2023
Preservation Specialist Audrey Sage Honored by the Staff Senate Preservation Specialist Audrey Sage was honored by the Staff Senate for her many contributions to Service Committee, including her work with the Angel tree, the UNCG garden plot, the Spartan Open Pantry food drive, the Teacher Supply Warehouse drive, the Veterans Day card signing event, and […]
“Chewed and Digested”: Savoring a Community Cookbook
Recently, the Southern Pines Civic Club donated a copy of their only cookbook to the North Carolina Cookbook Collection. Published ca. 1920s, this cookbook strives to live up to the founding principles of the club: On the inside cover, facing the Preface, is a full-page advertisement for the Highland Pines Inn. The connection between the […]
Mountain Cooking by John Parris
by Audrey Sage John Parris was born in Sylva, North Carolina and began writing for the local weekly paper, The Jackson County Journal, at the age of thirteen. He later went on to write as a feature writer in New York, then later in London during World War II for the United Press. He continued […]
Around the Southern Table by Sarah Belk
by Audrey Sage In this edition of our newsletter, we present you with the wonderful American cookery book by Sarah Belk. This collection of recipes, historical anecdotes which date back to 1607, and interesting stories and quotations center around the foods and traditions of southern cooking. The author has compiled a vast array of unique […]
