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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 – Raspberry Nut Torte from Buncombe County
by Carolyn Shankle This issue’s recipe comes from the cookbook, Kitchen Witchery, issued by the Buncombe County Medical Auxiliary in 1978. With the recent devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, we are keeping Western North Carolina in our minds and hearts. I’ll be featuring recipes from this region for the next few issues as the recovery […]
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 […]
New Acquisitions – Fall 2022
RARE BOOKS “Capacity Taste, and Fertile Imagination” We recently purchased a copy of François Menon’s The Art of Modern Cookery Displayed (1767) for our Historical Cookbooks in the Woman’s Collection. This copy is the first edition in English of Menon’s encyclopedic cookbook, translated from the original French Les soupers de la cour (1755). Promoting simple […]