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Centennial Selections By Joanna Gardiner and Peggy McCormick  $14.95 |
Centennial Selections
ISBN: 0-934188-30-O
Softcover, Comb binding, 168 pages
8½"x11"
286 Tested Recipes, indexed
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Centennial Selections is more than just a recipe book. It is a
history of dining and eating out practices in Stillwater over the
past one hundred years. It is highlighted with special sections that
are both nostalgic and historic, such as "The early Day," "The Way
We Ate: Meals and Menus," "Groceries Gone By: The Way We Shopped,"
"In the Good Ole Summertime," "Preserving Nature’s Bounty,"
"Restaurants We Remember: Stepping Out," "When Company Came to
Call," and "Minding our Manners."
Settlers endured hardships in the early years, but they found
comfort in sharing familiar and favorite "home cooking." And pioneer
cooks became creative as they sought to adapt treasured recipes to
the scarcities and wild foods of the Oklahoma frontier.
Over the past hundred years, new families have come to Stillwater,
bringing with them recipes, different cultures, and family
traditions. These diverse elements have combined to create a rich
and unique culinary "stew" that is our heritage as citizens in 1989.
You are invited to sample the home cooking in the pages of this
book. Interspersed among treasured recipes – old and new – are
stories of area families, "remembrances" of cooking and eating
entertaining and everyday life in our community during the last
hundred years.
The Payne County Historical Society sponsored this book. Proceeds
will be used to purchase historic street markers to designate the
area of the original town site of Stillwater.
Centennial Selections is a lovingly prepared heritage of kitchens
and dining room throughout the community.