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 in the book comes with a blurb attached to describe some of this history of the event.

“It has some great stories in it,” Linn added. “A lot of people put their old, Norwegian recipes that their grandmas and great grandmas passed down to them in the book. We put all those stories in there because I felt it is important to preserve that history.”

The cookbooks are currently on sale at RadioShack in Malta and Pay N Save in Saco.

All the money raised from the sale of the Centennial Cookbook goes back into the fair to help cover the costs of running the event.

“We knew that this being the 100th fair that we were going to spend more money on things like entertainment,” said Linn. “The cookbook and history book that were put together will hopefully offset some of those costs.”