P.C. Fair Cookbook contains plenty of county's history

Shortly after the conclusion of the 99th Phillips County Fair, the call for recipes went out for a Centennial Cookbook to help celebrate the 100th Annual Phillips County Fair. Nearly 12-months and 343 recipes later, a cookbook was formulated, but this isn’t your run of the mill cookbook.

“It’s kind of a souvenir, but it also has a bunch of people’s history in it as well,” said Joy Linn, one of the people who helped put the book together.

While many of the book’s recipes are of the old family sort, some are recipes that took home blue ribbons from the past Open Class Fair entries. Each recipe i...