Annie Witt Parker Collection
Scope and Content
The Annie Witt Parker Collection is a collection of recipes, church documents, and other publications. The items include a metal recipe box, a garden club membership booklet, a cookbook, and a church folder with various documents inside.
Box and Folder Listing Synopsis:
- Metal recipe box with blue, green, red, and yellow color decorations, filled with recipes on index cards and clippings.
- Villa Rica Garden Club 1977-1978 membership and activity book: list officers, directory, goals, description of monthly activities.
- Note card and envelope, blank inside, drawing of First Methodist Church, Villa Rica on cover.
- Small flat box filled with recipes on index cards.
- Purefoy Hotel Cook Book: spine taped; “Annie Witt Embrey” written in cover.
- Beige folder: 2 booklets: “Artistry in Arrangement,” and “Good Housekeeping’s Book of Flower Arrangements.”
- 2 Certificates: Women’s Society of Christian Service of The Methodist.
- Church certifies Mrs. A.A. Parker a Life Member:
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- May 6, 1955; and The American National Red Cross,
- Mrs. A.A. Parker completed course for Gray Lady Service,
February 10, 1958.
Search Terms/Key Words
Annie Witt Parker, Annie Witt Embrey, The Methodist Church, flower arrangement, recipes, cooking, cookbooks.
Detailed Folder List of Recipes
Separate Materials:
Creator of Finding Aid
Trey Gaines, Graduate Assistant, Center for Public History-4/22/02
Recipe List: Annie Witt Parker Recipe Collection
Key: (*)-Note Card, (+)-Newspaper or magazine clipping, (^)-Memo or Scrap paper
Beverages:
- Good Punch *
- Good Punch II ^
- Hot Buttered Rum ^
- Hot Punch *
- Instant Spiced Tea ^
- Manhattan, Daiquiri, Bloody Mary, “Old-Fashioned” +
Breads:
- “Addie’s” Bread ^
- Angel Biscuits ^
- Baba au Rhume (With Sauce Recipe) *
- Batter Rolls *
- Bread (Janet Edwards) ^
- Butter Dips +
- Cheese Wafers *
- Cheese Biscuits and Beaten Biscuits * (Laminated)
- Corn Spoon Bread * (Laminated)
- Corrin’s Whole Wheat Bread *
- Crusty Bread Sticks +
- Fresh Dumplings +
- Herb Bread +
- Mexican Cornbread *
- Oatmeal Honey Bread (1, 1 ½, and 2 lbs. Loaf) +
- Quick Rolls ^
- Smacks *
- Sour Dough Starter (2 note page) ^
- Spoon Bread (Nora’s) ^
- Yeast Biscuits *
Casseroles:
- Broccoli Casserole +
- Cheese Pudding ^
- Chicken Casserole *
- Spaghetti Supper Casserole, Meal-Sized Salad, Dainty Cheese Balls, 2 Juice extract articles. +
Desserts:
- Apple Cake +
- Apple Cake (Myra’s)*
- Apple Sauce Cake +
- Apricot Pie *
- Banana Streusel Coffee Cake +
- Best Ever Pie ^
- Bourbon Balls ^
- Brandy Balls *
- Butter Cookies +
- Carrot Cake ^
- Charlotte Russe ^
- Cheese Cake *
- Chess Pie +
- Chinese Cookies *
- Chocolate Pie *
- Chocolate Pound Cake *
- Chocolate Roll (Roulage) ^
- Christmas Stollen, (Reverse: Holiday Eggnog) +
- Cookies (Eliz) ^
- “Corrin’s” Pudding *
- Creamy Pralines +
- Crepe (Basic) +
- Dang Good Pie +
- Elegant Chocolate Log +
- Ethel’s Pound Cake and Nancy Cable’s Pound Cake ^
- “Floy’s” Cake
- French Crepes +
- German Chocolate Pie *
- “Good” Pie ^
- Ice Box Cookies *
- Ice Cream Cookies ^
- Icing ^
- Indian Pudding ^
- Kentucky Chess Pie +
- Key Lime Pie *
- Lace Cookies ^
- Lemon Cup *
- Lemon Pie *
- Lemon Pudding ^
- Lemon Sponge Custard *
- Lemon Squares ^
- “Mama’s” Pound Cake *
- Marchman Pralines ^
- “Margaret’s” Good Dessert *
- Mexican Wedding Cake +
- “Minnie’s” Peach Cobbler +
- “Mrs. Phillip’s” Cake *
- Mrs. Strauch’s Lovely Scotch Shortbread +
- Nubian Chocolate Roll ^
- Ohio Lemon Pie *
- One, Two, Three, Four Cake and Coconut Filling +
- Party Treats *
- Peach Pie *
- Peach Cream Pie +
- Pecan Pie *
- Pecan Tarts ^
- Potato Pudding ^
- Pour Cake, Crisco Pound Cake, and Rich Pound Cake ^
- Rice Crispies and Chinese Cookies ^
- Roulage ^
- Shaker Lemon Pie and Chess Pie +
- “Silia’s” or “Lilia’s” Dessert *
- Snappy Sugar Cookies +
- Sour Cream Pie ^
- Sponge Cake *
- Sponge Cake ^
- Spoon Bread ^
- Stollen +
- Strawberry Mousse *
- Sunny Orange Chocolate Cake +
- Sweet Potato Pudding *
- Swiss Enchilada *
- Tea Cakes *
- Vanilla Claffon Filling ^
- White Icing (Griffin’s) *
- Yellow Cake Mix ^
Hot Dish:
- Asparagus Quiche +
- Beef with Dumplings *
- Beef Steak Stroganoff +
- Bean and Meat Pie *
- Blanilus Chicken and Rice
- Cheese Soufflé *
- Chicken, Ham, and Rice *
- Chicken with Rice ^
- Chicken Liver Stroganoff +
- Chinese Chop Suie *
- Lasagna ^
- Mexican Dish (Murray’s) *
- Mock Enchiladas *
- Spare Ribs and Saurkraut +
- Spanish Rice, “Neal Method” *
- Suriyaki (with Rice) +
Meats:
- Baked Pork Chops ^
- Green Chili Chicken ^
- Ground Meat (Sue’s) *
- Hamburgers *
- Hot Dogs *
- Indian Chicken ^
- Jayce Chicken ^
- “Margaret’s” Ham *
- Marion’s Pepper Steak ^
- Pressed Chicken *
- Salisbury Steaks +
- Sweet and Sour Spareribs ^
Pickles, Preserves, Relishes, and Jellies:
- Cucumber Pickles *
- Hot Pepper Jelly *
- Jellied Cucumber Ring with Cottage Cheese +
- Pepper and Pear Relish +
- “Mrs. Miller Rosie” Tomato Pickles and Sliced Tomatoes ^
- Watermelon Rind Pickle +
- Squash Pickles ^
Salads:
- Apricot Salad *
- Avocado Salad *
- Bean Salad (Vogene’s) *
- Bing Cherry Salad ^
- Cranberry Salad ^
- Cucumber Salad *
- Frozen Fruit Salad *
- Marinated Carrots (Vogene’s) ^
- Mrs. Farr’s Salad *
- Pear Salad *
- Salad (Good) *
- Salad (From the kitchen of Robbie) *
- Spiced Peach Salad *
- Sour Cream Potato Salad *
- Sue’s Salad ^
- Twenty-four (24) Lettuce Salad ^
- Vegetable Salad *
Sauces:
- Avocado Mouse *
- Fish Sauce *
- Guacamole *
- Hollandaise Cheese Sauce *
- Plum Sauce *
Seafood:
- Scalloped Oysters *
- Seafood Newbury ^
- Seafood Supreme ^
- Shrimp Creole +
- Shrimp Creole +
- Shrimp Creole +
- Shrimp Newburgh +
- D? Shrimp Over Rice *
- Shrimp Supreme *
- Tuna Fish Pie *
- Velma’s Shrimp *
Soups:
- “My” Tomato Soup-Salad *
- Irish Stew ^
- Peanut Soup *
Vegetables:
- Asparagus ^
- “Good” Broccoli *
- Margaret’s Squash *
- Marinated Carrot’s ^
- Skillet-Grilled Squash and Savory Green Beans (Reverse: Recipe for “Easy Sweets)+
- Spinach *
Miscellaneous:
- Luncheon Plan *
- Bonseur’s French Scrapple +
- Coffee Figue *
- Tomato Aspic *
- Tomato Aspic *
Cook Book
-Purefoy, Eva B. Purefoy Hotel Cook Book; The True and Tried Recipes of Real Southern
Cooking. Talledega, Alabama: Purefoy Hotel 1941
Floral Arrangements
- The Flower Arrangers Club of Georgia. Artistry in Arrangement.
Hapeville, Georgia: Longino & Porter. 1951. - Good Housekeeping’s Book of Flower Arrangements. 1952.
Extra Items
- Note Card: 1st United Methodist Church, Villa Rica.
- The American National Red Cross Certificate. Presented to Mrs. A.A Parker for Gray Lady
Service. Dated: February 10, 1958. - Women’s Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church, Life Member certificate.
Presented to Mrs. A.A. Parker., May 6, 1955. - Villa Rica Garden Club (1977-1978). Booklet containing: Club Officers, Club Directory, and
Summary of meetings. - Folder belonging to Mrs. Annie Parker of the Villa Rica United Methodist Church. Folder is
marked: “Board of Missions. The Methodist Church. Service Center. 7820 Reading Road.
Cincinnati Ohio 45237.” - Small tin box marked “Recipes.”
Creator of Recipe List:
John Wall, Graduate Assistant, Center for Public History-Fall 2004