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,
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

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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.

Mrs. Annie Witt Parker
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