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Report by Utah State University folklore student Rebecca Maughan, who collected information from her grandmother, Hattie Bagley Maughan. Pennsylvania Dutch recipes. Scrapple is cornmeal and ground pork, boiled together, set, sliced, and fried. Headcheese is mentioned but not described in detail. Sweet curd is made from milk (never cooled since leaving the cow) and eggs, heated gently and drained in cheesecloth, cooled, sliced, and served in a simple vanilla syrup.

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Report by Brigham Young University folklore student Robert Kurtz, who collected information from his grandmother Treasa Michel. Deep-fried, high-sugar, cookie-like dough with lemon rind.

Scope and Contents Collection contains the rough draft of "Beyond the Sunset: Selected Short Stories from the Life of Joseph T. Smith"; originals and photocopies of photographs of Joseph Thurston Smith and family; mostly incoming family correspondence; ephemera from her grandchildren; family newsletters; cards; wedding invitations; newspapers; class notes; death certificates and wills; items from events, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Brigham Young University; brochures of places...

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Report by Brigham Young University folklore student Paul Merideth, who collected information from Mary Katherine Kelly. Traditional baked layered dish of roast beef, dripping/wine gravy, mint, and french bread.

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Report by Brigham Young University folklore student Amy Serr about boiled egg/flour noodles.

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Authored by G.W. Carver, M.S. Agr., Director, Experiment Station, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Dated 1918.

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Report by Brigham Young University folklore student Gabriella Duci, who collected information from Cinzia Donatelli. Bought in shops anytime, but handmade by Cinzia's family for Christmas, and cooked in broth on Christmas Day.

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Report by Brigham Young University folklore student Mavanee Anderson Carter about information traditionally learned by observation; an acquaintance wrote down the method, then found a very similar recipe in a cookbook, which she tore out and provided to Mavanee. Recipe itself is not included.

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Report by Eleanor Madsen about information she received from Danish maternal-line ancestors. Boiled egg/flour dumplings with nutmeg, served in a thickened sauce with crisp bacon and sweetener (jelly or molasses).

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Recipes and a bulletin published by George Washington Carver, his personal letters, photographs, a memorial coin, and a program for his burial service, dated 1918 to 1951.