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![["Diane Betler was born in Pendleton County, West Virginia and came to Helvetia as a child to live with her adopted mother Margaret Koerner, an immigrant from Germany. Ms. Koerner was a skilled home cook from her Ms. Betler learned many traditional recipes. She married Kevin Betler, nephew of Eleanor Betler, and they live in the Koerner home in Helvetias Metzner Hollow where Ms. Betler was raised. She served as the principal of Pickens Elementary/High School, the public school serving children from Pickens and Helvetia. Ms. Betler makes the yeast-raised doughnuts for Helvetias Fasnacht celebration every year using Margaret Koerners recipe.This interview is part of a series of interviews conducted with foodways practitioners in Helvetia, West Virginia, as part of the Helvetia Foodways Oral History Project in partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance. Learn more: https://www.southernfoodways.org/oral-history/helvetia-west-virginia/"]%](/image/4224BetlerDianePhoto0232616/0.jpg)
- Identifier:
- 4224.BetlerDiane.Photo.023.2.6.16
- Title:
- Vintage German sign hanging in Diane Belter's Helvetia kitchen
- Date:
- 2016-02-06
- Creator:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Food habits, Doughnuts, Carnival, Cooking, German, Cooking, Swiss, foodways, Helvetia (W. Va.)
- Location:
- Helvetia (W. Va.)
![["Diane Betler was born in Pendleton County, West Virginia and came to Helvetia as a child to live with her adopted mother Margaret Koerner, an immigrant from Germany. Ms. Koerner was a skilled home cook from her Ms. Betler learned many traditional recipes. She married Kevin Betler, nephew of Eleanor Betler, and they live in the Koerner home in Helvetias Metzner Hollow where Ms. Betler was raised. She served as the principal of Pickens Elementary/High School, the public school serving children from Pickens and Helvetia. Ms. Betler makes the yeast-raised doughnuts for Helvetias Fasnacht celebration every year using Margaret Koerners recipe.This interview is part of a series of interviews conducted with foodways practitioners in Helvetia, West Virginia, as part of the Helvetia Foodways Oral History Project in partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance. Learn more: https://www.southernfoodways.org/oral-history/helvetia-west-virginia/"]%](/image/4224BetlerDianePhoto0242616/0.jpg)
- Identifier:
- 4224.BetlerDiane.Photo.024.2.6.16
- Title:
- German sign in Diane Betler's kitchen
- Date:
- 2016-02-06
- Creator:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Food habits, foodways, Doughnuts, Carnival, Cooking, German, Helvetia (W. Va.), Cooking, Swiss
- Location:
- Helvetia (W. Va.)
![["Diane Betler was born in Pendleton County, West Virginia and came to Helvetia as a child to live with her adopted mother Margaret Koerner, an immigrant from Germany. Ms. Koerner was a skilled home cook from her Ms. Betler learned many traditional recipes. She married Kevin Betler, nephew of Eleanor Betler, and they live in the Koerner home in Helvetias Metzner Hollow where Ms. Betler was raised. She served as the principal of Pickens Elementary/High School, the public school serving children from Pickens and Helvetia. Ms. Betler makes the yeast-raised doughnuts for Helvetias Fasnacht celebration every year using Margaret Koerners recipe.This interview is part of a series of interviews conducted with foodways practitioners in Helvetia, West Virginia, as part of the Helvetia Foodways Oral History Project in partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance. Learn more: https://www.southernfoodways.org/oral-history/helvetia-west-virginia/"]%](/image/4224BetlerDianePhoto0262616/0.jpg)
- Identifier:
- 4224.BetlerDiane.Photo.026.2.6.16
- Title:
- Diane Betler pats out dough for doughnuts
- Date:
- 2016-02-06
- Creator:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Cooking, German, Food habits, Helvetia (W. Va.), Doughnuts, Cooking, Swiss, Carnival, foodways
- Location:
- Helvetia (W. Va.)
![["Diane Betler was born in Pendleton County, West Virginia and came to Helvetia as a child to live with her adopted mother Margaret Koerner, an immigrant from Germany. Ms. Koerner was a skilled home cook from her Ms. Betler learned many traditional recipes. She married Kevin Betler, nephew of Eleanor Betler, and they live in the Koerner home in Helvetias Metzner Hollow where Ms. Betler was raised. She served as the principal of Pickens Elementary/High School, the public school serving children from Pickens and Helvetia. Ms. Betler makes the yeast-raised doughnuts for Helvetias Fasnacht celebration every year using Margaret Koerners recipe.This interview is part of a series of interviews conducted with foodways practitioners in Helvetia, West Virginia, as part of the Helvetia Foodways Oral History Project in partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance. Learn more: https://www.southernfoodways.org/oral-history/helvetia-west-virginia/"]%](/image/4224BetlerDianeVideo0012616/0.jpg)
- Identifier:
- 4224.BetlerDiane.Video.001.2.6.16
- Title:
- Audio slideshow of Diane Betler talking about making doughnuts for Fasnacht
- Date:
- 2016-02-06
- Creator:
- Betler, Diane
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Doughnuts, Cooking, Swiss, Swiss American women, Festivals, Carnival, foodways, Helvetia (W. Va.), Cooking, German, Food habits
- Location:
- Helvetia (W. Va.)
![["Eleanor Betler was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia in 1940 and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She spent her summers in Helvetia at the farm of her maternal grandparents, James and Anna Merkli McNeal. She married Howard Bud Betler in 1961. The couple moved to a hilltop farm in Helvetia and raised four children. All the good cooks, many of them relatives of Mr. Betler taught Mrs. Betler about canning, preserving, cooking and baking. She was especially interested to learn the skills of butchering and preserving meat, and making sausage. Mrs. Betler loves the Swiss traditional baking but also Appalachian ways of some neighbors. She grinds her own flour for baking bread. At Fasnacht time she invites neighbors and friends to make the hosablatz and rosettes just to keep the tradition alive. She also preserves this history by collecting stories, music, and photographs for The Helvetia Archives.This interview is part of a series of interviews conducted with foodways practitioners in Helvetia, West Virginia, as part of the Helvetia Foodways Oral History Project in partnership with the Southern Foodways Alliance. Learn more: https://www.southernfoodways.org/oral-history/helvetia-west-virginia/"]%](/image/4224BetlerEleanorVideo0012516/0.jpg)
- Identifier:
- 4224.BetlerEleanor.Video.001.2.5.16
- Title:
- Audio slideshow of Eleanor Betler talking about making rosettes and hozablatz for Fasnacht in Helvetia
- Date:
- 2016-02-05
- Creator:
- Betler, Eleanor
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Folk dancing, Swiss, Doughnuts, Swiss American women, Food habits, foodways, Bakers, Square dance music--United States, Farms--West Virginia, Helvetia (W. Va.), Cooking, Swiss, Carnival masks, Carnival
- Location:
- Helvetia (W. Va.)
