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Beyond the Reading Room

Anecdotes and other notes from the U-M Special Collections Research Center.
Detailed illustration from Audubon's Birds of North America of a nest in a tree with birds sitting around it.

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Sliced apples simmering in a saucepan on the stove
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  • Juli McLoone
Recipe of the Month: Ella Hall's Sweet Pickled Apples (1920s-1940s)
Like April's Corn Bread, this month’s recipe is drawn from Ella Hall’s manuscript cookbook, which will be available to purchase as a facsimile from the University of Michigan Press in June. One of the first recipes that caught my attention when I read through this book was “Sweet Pickled Apples,” credited to "Mrs. Rhea on Ann St."
A light-skinned Black woman in glasses, wearing a dress, cardigan, and glasses, stands in a garden behind a rosebush
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  • Juli McLoone
Recipe of the Month: Ella Hall's Corn Bread (circa 1920s-1940s?)
Keeping with last month's theme of cornbread, this month’s recipe is also corn bread, but from the 20th century. Ella Hall was a Black landlord and cook who lived in Ann Arbor from the early 1920s until she passed away in 1962. Her manuscript cookbook resides in the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive and a facsimile edition will be released by the University of Michigan Press in June 2026.