Fire up your grill – it’s cookout season! It’s a little-known fact that the NC Collection at the Central Library has a good and plenty collection of local recipe books. Some are shiny and new, put out by a major publisher, while others are old and funky and put together up a scrappy family member who wanted to memorialize their family recipes. You can find congealed salad recipes from the 1970s or how to cook squirrel outside over a fire you built. What fun! Over the summer, we’d like to share with you some of the fun summer recipes we’ve found in just a portion of our collection. Each week for Summer Reading (June 9 to August 4), we’ll have a different category of recipes. This week it’s Cookout. Please enjoy and if you’d like a compiled PDF of the recipes listed below, you’ll find that at the end. Happy grilling! Oh, and don’t forget to check out other Summer Reading activities from the Forsyth County Public Library here: FCPL Summer Reading Programs Guide
All-Time Favorite Recipes from North Carolina Cooks by Gooseberry Patch – a book of NC recipes from all around the state and each recipe includes who sent in the recipe and what part of NC they are from – this one is from Joan Osborne in Boomer, NC in Wilkes Co. (call number NC 641.5975 A416 2022)
Wake Forest Tailgating Recipe Book by the Participants of 2000 Women’s Football Clinic (call number NC 641.59756 W147)
Winston-Salem Shrine Club: Nobelle’s Cookbook (call number NC 641.59756 N744)
RECIPES from RUFUS – a book of compiled recipes from Rufus Edmisten printed while he was running for governor of NC in the 1980s – these recipes were compiled by Helen Haft Goldstein who was NC’s 1982 Mother of the Year (call number NC 641.59756 R297)
This Will Make it Taste Good by Vivian Howard – one of our state’s favorite chefs from Kinston, NC over east in Pitt County – this book does its chapters by a star ingredient, in this case, citrus shine, which you can find the recipe for by hitting that arrow on the right of the image (call number NC 641.555 H 2020)
Dixie Classic Fair for Northwest North Carolina: Favorite Recipes from Friends of the Fair – now called the Carolina Classic, this local fair has been a hallmark for fall every year since its start in the 1880s and has actually gone through a couple name changes until its newest one “the Carolina Classic” – this recipe collection is from 2000 (call number NC 641.59756 D619)
Dixie Classic Fair for Northwest North Carolina: Favorite Recipes from Friends of the Fair – now called the Carolina Classic, this local fair has been a hallmark for fall every year since its start in the 1880s and has actually gone through a couple name changes until its newest one “the Carolina Classic” – this recipe collection is from 2000 (call number NC 641.59756 D619)
Winston-Salem Shrine Club: Nobelle’s Cookbook (call number NC 641.59756 N744)
Rx for Good Eating – Recipes from the Bowman Gray Guild 1966 (call number NC 641.59756 R987)
Moravian Ministers Wives’ Favorite Recipes with Devotional Gems (call number NC 641.59756 M831)
Winston-Salem Shrine Club: Nobelle’s Cookbook (call number NC 641.59756 N744)
The Farmhouse Chef: Recipes & Stories from My Carolina Farm by Jamie DeMent (call number NC 641.59756 F234)
Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South by Vivian Howard (call number NC 641.5975 H852D)
Favorite Recipes: New Friendship Home Demonstration Club (Winston-Salem, NC) (call number NC 641.59756 F275)
Favorites in Receipts of Members of the Child Study Club of W.S. 1966-1967 (call number NC 641.59756 F275)
A Savor the South Cookbook: Sunday Dinner by Bridgette A. Lacy (call number NC 641.54 L152S)
CenterPoint Recipe Bulletin Number 1 by CenterPoint Human Services in Winston-Salem, NC (call number NC 641.59756 C397)
Dixie Classic Fair for Northwest North Carolina: Favorite Recipes from Friends of the Fair (call number NC 641.59756 D619)
Dixie Classic Fair for Northwest North Carolina: Favorite Recipes from Friends of the Fair (call number NC 641.59756 D619)
Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South by Vivian Howard (call number NC 641.5975 H852D)
Ramalicious: A Collection of Recipes by Starmount High School, Class of 1970 (call number NC 641.59756 R165)
Ramalicious: A Collection of Recipes by Starmount High School, Class of 1970 (call number NC 641.59756 R165)
Ramalicious: A Collection of Recipes by Starmount High School, Class of 1970 (call number NC 641.59756 R165)
Ramalicious: A Collection of Recipes by Starmount High School, Class of 1970 (call number NC 641.59756 R165)
Ramalicious: A Collection of Recipes by Starmount High School, Class of 1970 (call number NC 641.59756 R165)
Winston-Salem Shrine Club: Nobelle’s Cookbook (call number NC 641.59756 N744)
Winston-Salem Shrine Club: Nobelle’s Cookbook (call number NC 641.59756 N744)
This Will Make it Taste Good: A New Path to Simple Cooking by Vivian Howard (call number NC 641.555 H 2020)
Favorite Recipes: New Friendship Home Demonstration Club (Winston-Salem, NC) (call number NC 641.59756 F275)Foster’s Market Favorites by Sara Foster (call number NC 641.5975 F757F)Ramalicious: A Collection of Recipes by Starmount High School, Class of 1970 (call number NC 641.59756 R165)Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South by Vivian Howard (call number NC 641.5975 H852D)Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South by Vivian Howard (call number NC 641.5975 H852D)
From the Kitchen of Junior Women’s Club, Winston-Salem, NC (1976) (call number NC 641.59756 F931)
Sunday Dinner: a Savor the South cookbook by Bridgette A. Lacy (call number NC 641.54 L152S)
Winston-Salem Shrine Club: Nobelle’s Cookbook (call number NC 641.59756 N744)
Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South by Vivian Howard (call number NC 641.5975 H852D)
From the Kitchen of Junior Women’s Club, Winston-Salem, NC (1976) (call number NC 641.59756 F931)
Southern Holidays: a Savor the South cookbook by Debbie Moose (call number NC 641.5975 M825)
From the Kitchen of Junior Women’s Club, Winston-Salem, NC (1976) (call number NC 641.59756 F931)
Feast of Goodness: First Baptist Church (Blowing Rock, NC) (call number NC 641.59756 F288)
The Farmhouse Chef: Recipes & Stories from My Carolina Farm by Jamie DeMent (call number NC 641.59756 F234)
The Farmhouse Chef: Recipes & Stories from My Carolina Farm by Jamie DeMent (call number NC 641.59756 F234)
