Published in 1989. Celebrating 100 years since the founding of Summit Hill. 

This cook book is unique for several reasons. 

The shiny gold embossed cover was cool, but it was the recipes that mattered most.

 Seeing the names of residents is special - knowing they shared their treasure family recipes with all. This cook book just warms the heart. 

This rare 1952 Slovak cookbook celebrates 60 years of Slovak American Heritage. 

It features long forgotten recipes. 

Scattered in this book are people from Coaldale and Lansford. Do you remember any of them?  This 400+ page book is hardcover and was published by the First Catholic Slovak Ladies Association. It took over 3+ hours to scan.  

Did you know Panther Valley High School produced a cookbook? 

Home Economics students were asked to trace their coal region heritage and share a family recipe.  

Some of these students names featured in the book may ring a bell. This book has some essential and commonly found coal region recipes. 

This is the first edition, soft cover, wire bound. 

Did you know WLSH Radio Station 

released a cookbook? 

These 1970s recipes are such a delight. You can see the evolution of coal region food if you look close enough - comparing the 1952 Slovak Book to this one. Its cool to see the names and addresses capturing a moment in time. Uniquely this book has a series of poems from a retired coal miner. 

Enjoyable too is seeing names and pictures of former WLSH employees. WLSH Radio Host Mark Marek has a fantastic book called, "The Station You Grew Up On" available on Amazon HERE

Volume 2 of the WLSH cookbook. 

How dare they raise the price by a dollar in the 1970s gas crisis!!  

This book is jammed with more of our neighbors names and their recipes. Another walk down memory lane. Some names (and recipes) are long forgotten, but they will  live on here in the pages of this book. Again the evolution of coal region cooking is why this book is culturally significant. 

 I highly recommend listening to Mark Marek on Coal Region Connections radio show HERE. He routinely features these recipes on his Facebook Page.  His son Kris is pretty cool too. 

There are few details on this cookbook other than it was used as a fundraiser for Marian. 

I think my mom bought this cookbook for the stunning drawings and images. 

The cover art belongs in a museum. Ok, i'll stop.

 What makes this recipe book unique is the names. It's like a who's who of the best Marian chefs ever - proud to know and eaten some of their food.  

This association in Carbon County got a new name decades ago.  Their cookbook was used as a fundraiser.

What makes this cookbook worth reading is the recipes come from residents all over Carbon county. . They were submitted by residents across all of Carbon County. That means you will see foods not found solely in Panther Valley area but the entire region.

My mom proudly supported this organization. She misses her friend Joanie Kennedy who helped lead this group. 

Recipes for raccoon, possum, rabbit and other critters found in NEPA. 

This book is not only a real cookbook but has some incredible ideas how to cook wild game. 

I like to think if there is ever a nuclear war, this will be the most valuable cookbook featured here.  😂. 

You might want to download now. 

This book celebrates Saint Marys featuring members favorite recipes. 

What makes this recipe book special is the cookies and cakes section - tasty cake and tandy cakes ORIGINAL recipe. 

Those recipes are posted below. 

Bonkers to think this church has been around 150 years. 

Shamokin Citizen newspaper was a local publication that released their own collection of coal region recipes. It was a VERY popular community cookbook featuring local recipes and ads, making it a piece of local history.

What makes these cookbook unique and historical is the large amount of time catalogued here. You can see the evolution of recipes. Better yet, many of the  folks that settled in Schuylkill County had VASTLY different cooking techniques than Carbon, Luzerne, or Lackawanna counties.

Shamokin Citizen newspaper was a local publication that released their own collection of coal region recipes. It was a VERY popular community cookbook featuring local recipes and ads, making it a piece of local history.

Shamokin Citizen newspaper was a local publication that released their own collection of coal region recipes. It was a VERY popular community cookbook featuring local recipes and ads, making it a piece of local history.

Shamokin Citizen newspaper was a local publication that released their own collection of coal region recipes. It was a VERY popular community cookbook featuring local recipes and ads, making it a piece of local history.

Shamokin Citizen newspaper was a local publication that released their own collection of coal region recipes. It was a VERY popular community cookbook featuring local recipes and ads, making it a piece of local history.

Shamokin Citizen newspaper was a local publication that released their own collection of coal region recipes. It was a VERY popular community cookbook featuring local recipes and ads, making it a piece of local history.

Shamokin Citizen newspaper was a local publication that released their own collection of coal region recipes. It was a VERY popular community cookbook featuring local recipes and ads, making it a piece of local history.

Shamokin Citizen newspaper was a local publication that released their own collection of coal region recipes. It was a VERY popular community cookbook featuring local recipes and ads, making it a piece of local history.

Shamokin Citizen newspaper was a local publication that released their own collection of coal region recipes. It was a VERY popular community cookbook featuring local recipes and ads, making it a piece of local history.

Shamokin Citizen newspaper was a local publication that released their own collection of coal region recipes. It was a VERY popular community cookbook featuring local recipes and ads, making it a piece of local history.

Shamokin Citizen newspaper was a local publication that released their own collection of coal region recipes. It was a VERY popular community cookbook featuring local recipes and ads, making it a piece of local history.

Shamokin Citizen newspaper was a local publication that released their own collection of coal region recipes. It was a VERY popular community cookbook featuring local recipes and ads, making it a piece of local history.

This recipe book was used as a fundraised in 1990 to help the church pay bills and expand. 

It features a nice cross section of ethnicities featuring church members recipes. We included this cook book because some of the recipes go beyond the greater panther valley area and we have not been able to find those recipes online (yet).

This cookbook is special because it covers the ESSENTIAL recipes for a variety of ethnic backgrounds inside the coal region AND outside NEPA. 

The ethnic sections for Solvank, Polish, and many others make this book a worthy addition to our library. 

Additionally, every time a Home Ec Teacher speaks, students get their wings. 

The coal region had MANY germans living back in the turn of the century. Early coal region cooking was highly influenced by German immigrants. 

We have included this cookbook because it features some essential recipes for authentic german foods - courtesy of Busch Gardens. 

This book was released in 1979. 

Do you have an old coal region cookbook? We will gladly pay for shipping and return it to you.

We have professional scanning equipment. We can scan ANY cookbook using very expensive OCR scanners for FREE!! 

Message us today. 

Once the cookbook is destroyed, its gone forever. 

Let's save Northeast Pennsylvania gastronomical history. We will scan your cookbook and pay for all costs including shipping. 

It takes us 1-3 hours depending on how many pages are in the cookbook. 

So many Panther Valley and related coal region communities used cookbooks as fundraisers. 

We want to preserve this history before the paper in the book is destroyed or fades away. 

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