The Quaker Cook Book, published in 1954, collected favorite recipes from members of the Women's Auxillary of High Point Friends Meeting. A smaller, 1924 edition entitled Carolina Cookery From Quaker Kitchens assures users: "Not all the recipes are strictly original but the signature after each guarantees that they have been proved, and found excellent." The Heritage Reseach Center holds copies of both books.

Treasured cookbooks over the years became storehouses for other collected recipes. Mrs. A. M. Richardson's edition of The Quaker Cook Book contains notations throughout as well as a number of recipes handwritten on the backs of envelopes, on notebook paper, and even invitations.

The Quaker Cook Book also contained a chapter titled "Quantity" which includes not only recipes for cooking individual dishes for a crowd but menus and shopping lists for cooking an entire dinner for 50. This surely was vital information, as shown by another paper enclosed in Mrs. Richardson's book: a church program from the First United Methodist Church, May 7, 1974, shows four meals scheduled at the church within ten days!

Gift of W. D. Lee, Jr.

1979.005.075