THREE HOMETOWN COOKBOOKS
Updated September 5, 2026
| Lot number | 205 |
| Auction | Hancock Estate Auction |
| Date | September 25, 2026 at 9:30 AM CDT |
| Auction house | Harrison Auction & Realtor |
| Location | Gracemont, Oklahoma |
THREE COOKBOOKS - GRACEMONT OKLAHOMA HOMETOWN FAVORITES, CHICKASHA RED HILLS MENNONITE COOKBOOK, AND FANNIE FLAGG'S WHISTLE STOP CAFE COOKBOOK Three cookbooks with strong local interest, two of them Oklahoma community fundraiser cookbooks published by Morris Press Cookbooks and one a national best-seller. The first is Hometown Favorites - Gracemont, Oklahoma, a comb-bound community cookbook copyright 2005, with a painted main-street scene of Gracemont on the cover showing the church steeple, frame houses, white picket fence, and a horse-drawn peddler's wagon. Recipes are credited by name to local cooks, and several are reprinted from older sources including the 1947 Caddo County H.D. Cookbook and the Gracemont H.D.C. Cookbook, 1934, which makes this book a local-history record as much as a recipe collection. The second is Country Cooking from the Red Hills, a collection of recipes by the Plainview Mennonite Congregation, Chickasha, OK 73018, copyright 2008, in a green vinyl three-ring binder with gold spine lettering and a colored-pencil farm and red-hills scene on the front. Recipes there are credited in the Mennonite style with both names, as Lynette, Mrs. Dustin Schmidt or Bernice, Mrs. Verlon Schmidt, running through wassails, teas, soups, and casseroles. The third is Fannie Flagg's Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook, the Fawcett Columbine hardcover with its yellow pictorial dust jacket, featuring Fried Green Tomatoes, Southern barbecue, banana split pie, and more than 150 other recipes, illustrated throughout with vintage black-and-white cafe photography. Local buyers will recognize the Gracemont and Chickasha books immediately, and cookbooks tied to a specific Oklahoma town rarely come up for sale once the original print run is gone. Note that the green Red Hills binder shows scuffing and scratching over both vinyl covers, and a pink plastic tab bookmark is clipped into the Gracemont book. Sold as a lot of 3 books. Description Hometown Favorites, Gracemont, Oklahoma - plastic comb-bound softcover with laminated pictorial wraps, front and back covers together forming a continuous painted landscape, the back cover carrying the MORRIS PRESS COOKBOOKS logo. Title page reads Hometown Favorites / A Collection of Recipes by / Gracemont, Oklahoma / Copyright 2005 / Morris Press Cookbooks / Printed in the U.S.A. by / MORRIS PRESS COOKBOOKS / P.O. Box 2110 Kearney, NE 68848. Fitted with color-coded plastic index tabs reading Appetizers & Beverages, Soups & Salads, Vegetables & Side Dishes, Breads & Rolls, Main Dishes, Cookies & Candy, This & That, and Desserts, plus full-color divider photographs. Interior pages photographed include a Veg-All Salad credited to Melba (Allen) Edwards from the 1947 Caddo County H.D. Cookbook, a Cabbage & Pineapple Salad credited to Verda Stephens from the Gracemont H.D.C. Cookbook of 1934, a Tomato Delight Salad Dressing from Wanda Siemp, a breads page with Lafon's Corn Bread, Hush Puppies, Kentucky McDonald Biscu
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