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Cookbook offers a ‘Taste of Earle’

Cookbook offers a ‘Taste of Earle’

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Cookbook offers a ‘Taste of Earle’

Library fundraiser chock full of downhome favorite recipes

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Lajuana’s corn dip. Kimberly’s 3-3-3. Aunt Molly’s Cabbage Rolls. Katie’s Magic Rolls. Grandma’s Chow-Chow.

Those are just a few of the recipes that can be found in the “Good Taste of Earle” cook book.

The recipes were sent in by Earle residents and from people all over Arkansas and even a couple from as far away as Florida, New York and New Jersey, and were compiled by Earle Librarian P.J. Taylor-Cox as a fundraising project.

“This cook book is about sharing, caring, helping, and most of all, loving,” Taylor-Cox wrote in the introduction.

The cook book features recipes for appetizers (spicy pecans, Dixie Caviar), soups and salads (2×4 Stew, Momma’s Big Pot of Chili, Watergate salad), vegetables and side dishes (Black Eyed Pea Fritters, Dirty Mushroom Rice), main dishes (baked catfish, Coca Cola Pork Chops, Railroad Pie), breads and rolls (Albert’s Biscuits), desserts (Boltemian Coffee Cake, Mary’s Ice Cream Salad, Myra’s Mississippi Mud Cakes, My Mama’s One Egg Cake), and this and that (Millionaire Fudge, Golden Oreo Cheesecake Squares with Raspberries).

Taylor-Cox said they got over 300 recipes in the cook book.

“I’m so pleased with how it came out,” Taylor-Cox said. “And the best part is that everything in there is so simple and down to Earth. It’s not all that expensive stuff you see on TV that you have to buy to make it. You’re going to see things in there that you can make with things you have on hand in your kitchen.”

Taylor-Cox said she was thrilled to see that some young readers, 15 year-old Shai Shaiguentia Covert, who live in Bronx, NY, heard about the cookbook through the PenPal Readers and sent in recipes.

“We had some kids send in some recipes which was exciting because their school was talking about our cook book,” Taylor-Cox said.

On a sadder note, Taylor-Cox said they plan to dedicate the cook book to West Memphis resident Margaret Crouch, who was 91 years old and died on June 22 before the cook book was published.

Crouch contributed more than a dozen recipes to the cook book.

“It hurt me so bad,” Taylor-Cox said. “I really cried. She was so sweet in supporting us. She took the initiative and came by to see me and the library and the kids. She COOKBOOK

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called me and said ‘do you have enough recipes?’ So her name is all over the book.”

The library plans to hold a ‘Good Taste of Earle’ taste test where the contributors will make their dishes for the public to sample.

The cook book is available at Earle Public Library, Young’s Grocery Store, The Evening Times, and Woolfolk Library in Marion for a $20 donation.

By Mark Randall

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