‘A Good Taste of Earle’

‘A Good Taste of Earle’

Community Cookbook coming to local library

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A community cookbook full of recipes from Earle residents and others submitted from all across the country is off to the printers and should be available sometime this month. “We’re sending it out this week,” said Earle Librarian P.J. Taylor.

Taylor, who came up with the idea of a cookbook, said they got more than 300 recipes.

“They’re coming from all different states,” Taylor said. “People heard about it and sent them in. We even have some that children sent in.”

The cookbook will be called AGood Taste of Earle and will be available for a donation to the library.

“We’re not selling anything,” Taylor said. “And the money will go toward buying supplies for the kids.”

Taylor said the book has recipes for salads, main dishes, tea cakes, homemade biscuits — everything is homemade.

The recipes aren’t just from Earle residents. Many former residents and people who heard about the project on-line sent in recipes to be included in the cookbook.

“It’s every kind in there you can name,” Taylor said. “We have some families that are 100 years old that have recipes in there. They are their grandmother’s recipes. We had some from New Jersey and Illinois send them in.”

Taylor said the cookbook is just the latest in a series of efforts to build more community involvement in Earle.

Last year a group of Earle seniors and local youth made a community quilt.

“We’re trying to pull everybody in,” Taylor said. “And the reason we are calling it AGood Taste of Earle is because we are stretching our arms out to pull people in. We’ve pulled towns that are 1,000 miles away who wrote in to Earle and are included in the book. We had people calling all day long who said they had recipes they wanted to mail in. And we didn’t want to miss anybody. So I’m excited about this. And A Good Taste of Earle is just that — a good taste of our community and to get a feel of what is going on here.”

By Mark Randall