Black walnut cake, persimmon bread, wild plum marmalade.
We’ve been working through a stack of West Virginia community cookbooks, the oldest put together by the Woman’s Club of Logan in 1963, and typing every recipe up so it’s easy to cook from. A lot of them lean on the trees we’re growing on the hill: black walnut, hickory, persimmon, plum, apple. Every cook’s name and hometown is kept as printed.
Josh and Abigail
Cakes
42 recipesCookies & Bars
22 recipesPies
6 recipesCandies
15 recipesDesserts
15 recipesBreads
14 recipesSalads
18 recipesPreserves & Pickles
1 recipeAppetizers & Snacks
9 recipesVegetables & Sides
10 recipesSoups
1 recipeMain Dishes
5 recipesCome learn the trees behind these recipes.
Black walnut, hickory, persimmon, American plum, pawpaw, apple. We’re growing them on twenty acres above Summersville and teaching what we learn as we go: native plant ID, grafting, foraging walks. Sit in on a workshop, pick in season, or take a few trees home from our sister nursery.
Five community cookbooks, credited as printed.
Every recipe keeps its cook’s name and hometown exactly as the book printed them. Where a book didn’t print a hometown, we say so rather than guess. Anything we couldn’t read is marked on the recipe.
- Central Cook Book, 1963The Woman's Club of Logan, Inc. · Logan, West Virginia35 recipes
- West Virginia Centennial Cook Book, Supplement, 1964The Woman's Club of Logan, Inc. · Logan, West Virginia29 recipes
- Mountain Measures, 1974Junior League of Charleston · Charleston, West Virginia70 recipes
- Savoring the Taste of GenerationsWoodlands Retirement Community21 recipes
- Kitchen Tasted RecipesRev. Arnold Willis3 recipes
