Boardin' in the Thicket: Reminiscences and Recipes of Early Big Thicket Boarding Houses

Wanda A. Landrey

University of North Texas Press, 1990 - Cooking - 192 pages

A memory of the boarding houses in the Big Thicket of Texas, the food and also a a time in Texas that is gone forever.

Contents

• The Commercial Hotel: 3
• The Springs Hotel Resort: 13
• Squirrel and Dumplings: 25
• The Badders HotelThe City Hotel: 29
• The Harvey Houses: 47
• The Bessmay Hotel: 63
• The Scott Hotel: 73
• Okra and Tomatoes: 81
• The Cariker Hotel: 87
• Aunt Pheins Bread Pudding: 93
• The Honey Island Boarding House: 95
• SevenMinute Frosting: 104
• Southern Pecan: 118
• Fried Chicken: 133
• The Vines Hotel: 139
• The Bragg Hotel: 157
• Epilogue: 174
• Index: 184
• 1: 185
• 92: 188
• Pickled Pigs Feet: 189

Bibliographic information

• Title: Boardin' in the Thicket: Reminiscences and Recipes of Early Big Thicket Boarding Houses; William G. Lockwood and Yvonne R. Lockwood Collection of National, Ethnic and Regional Foodways
• Author: Wanda A. Landrey
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of North Texas Press, 1990
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Nov 30, 2010
• ISBN: 0929398076, 9780929398075
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / American / Southern States; History / General; History / United States / State & Local / General