Popular at bake sales, school fundraising events, and across the Coal Region in general, this old-fashioned jelly-roll type potato based candy is known in the […]
Recipes
Coal Region Bleenies
Bleenies (not blinis…BLEENIES!!) Potato pancakes (a.k.a. latkes or whatever you know them as…) in the Schuylkill County area of the Coal Region are known as […]
Homemade Coal Region Hot Bologna
In the Coal Region, a local company, Miller’s (St. Clair, PA), makes a very popular hot bologna and it feels like there is a jar […]
Coal Region Barbecue
Often identified in general as “sloppy Joe’s”, to the residents of parts of The Coal Region — Schuylkill County in particular — this is “barbecue“; […]
Amish Macaroni Salad
Macaroni salad recipes are as diverse as the cooks that create it. The “best” is the one you like best. What usually makes macaroni salad […]
Copper Pennies (Marinated Carrots)
As a child, I would only eat raw carrots. If my Mom could hide cooked ones in another dish, I would partake, oblivious to her […]