AMES, Iowa (KCCI) — Three Iowa State University students have updated 100 recipes from the university’s archive and are putting them into a cookbook.
Hadley Shatek, a sophomore majoring in food science, Ben Starling, a senior majoring in food science, and Ellie Recker, a junior majoring in dietetics, have spent this semester testing and refining recipes that will appear in that cookbook. Many of the recipes came from the Iowa State University Library Special Collections and University Archives. They include what Alex Van Alstyne, food business extension specialist with the outreach and extension’s Farm Food and Enterprise Development unit and coordinator of the cookbook project, refers to as “heritage recipes” – cherry pie, chocolate cake, The Knoll hot chocolate, and more.
The cherry pie recipe was a staple when the university held its VEISHEA festivals. Students would bake and sell the pies to raise money for departmental scholarships. The Knoll hot chocolate is a recipe that dates back to Elle Parks, the wife of ISU’s 11th president William Robert Parks. The Knoll is the presidential residence. The hot chocolate is served to students by the first family as they host students during Winterfest…