Document Type
Correspondence
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Date
8-3-1958
Keywords
Apeas, Apees, recipes, sand tarts, cookies, Robesonia, Cora Smith
Description
A handwritten letter sent from Cora Smith addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated August 3, 1958. Within, Smith writes in response to claims made on Shoemaker's radio broadcast about cookies and provides her family's recipe for sand tarts and 'A piece' cookies.
Sender
Cora Smith
Recipient
Alfred L. Shoemaker
Corresponds to:
Packet 684-51
City
Robesonia, Pennsylvania
Transcription
Robesonia, Pa.
Aug. 3, 1958
Dr Shoemaker
We listen to you every Sunday and enjoy your program very much. We would like to read you books on Christmas in Pennsylvania when they are ready. We know of the A piece cookies and the sand tarts. They are two different kinds. These two receipts are over 150 yrs. old. My Great Grand Mother and Grand Mother and Mother baked them. I don’t know if the A piece is spelled right or not. But that is how they spelled it.
A peice Cookies
1 lb. of sugar
½ lb. of butter
3 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon soda
2 ½ cup flour.
The big old fashioned baking cup. Rolled and cut out with a round cutter with scalps. Color sugar
Sand Tarts
2 lb. sugar
1 lb. butter
8 eggs
flour to make stiff
I don’t remember of baking cookies in the bake oven, but I know of Bread pies and cakes they made.
Mrs. Cora Smith
36 Ruth St.
Robesonia, Pa.
Language
English
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Recommended Citation
Smith, Cora, "Letter From Cora Smith to Alfred L. Shoemaker, August 3, 1958" (1958). Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents. 74.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/74
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