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Cooking Through the Counties: Brown Sugar Pecan Pie from Rutherford County
When I examined the cookbook, The Whole Town’s Cooking, compiled by the Rutherfordton Woman’s Club, I was intrigued to find a full page of recipes for pecan pie. I’ll be the first to tell you that pecan pie isn’t one of my favorites. I often find it too sweet – it makes my teeth sing […]
Cooking Through the Counties : Cheese Scones from Polk County
This month’s featured recipe originates from Saluda, North Carolina, located in Polk County. The author, Ron Poole, is known for his cookbook Fat Man’s Favorites: Down Home and Delicious Recipes of Family, Friends & Enemies (2000). Given the engaging title, it promises a wonderful collection of recipes. In the introduction, Ron explains that the cookbook […]
Cooking Through The Counties – Sour Cream Pound Cake from Alleghany County
This installment of Cooking Through the Counties features a recipe selected from Seasoned with Love, a cookbook compiled by the Women’s Missionary Union of Mount Carmel Baptist Church, located in Glade Valley, in Alleghany County, North Carolina. Three aspects of this recipe caught my eye: the wording of the recipe indicated that the author was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
PIE !
by Audrey Sage We are featuring a wonderful volume from our historical cookbook collection – PIE ! by Patricia White. Our copy was gifted to our collection by Dr. Frieda Elaine Penninger, This delicious collection of 77 pie recipes was published in 1969 by Simon and Schuster. It contains recipes ranging in flavor from savory […]