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1. Recording of Eleanor Betler, Sharon Rollins, and Linda "Bunch" Smith Making Rosettes, 1 of 2

Identifier:
4224.BetlerEleanor.Audio.001.2.5.16
Title:
Recording of Eleanor Betler, Sharon Rollins, and Linda "Bunch" Smith Making Rosettes, 1 of 2
Date:
2016-04-30
Creator:
Smith, Linda "Bunch", Betler, Eleanor, Rollins, Sharon
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Bakers, foodways, Cooking, Swiss, Helvetia (W. Va.), Carnival, Swiss American women, Food habits
Location:
Helvetia (W. Va.)

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2. Recording of Eleanor Betler, Sharon Rollins, and Linda "Bunch" Smith Making Rosettes, 2 of 2

Identifier:
4224.BetlerEleanor.Audio.002.2.5.16
Title:
Recording of Eleanor Betler, Sharon Rollins, and Linda "Bunch" Smith Making Rosettes, 2 of 2
Date:
2016-02-05
Creator:
Smith, Linda "Bunch", Rollins, Sharon, Betler, Eleanor
Contributor:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Bakers, Swiss American women, Cooking, Swiss, foodways, Carnival, Food habits, Helvetia (W. Va.)
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 hozablatz 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/"]%

3. Eleanor Betler and Sharon Rollins roll out hozablatz dough

Identifier:
4224.BetlerEleanor.Photo.008.2.5.16
Title:
Eleanor Betler and Sharon Rollins roll out hozablatz dough
Date:
2016-02-05
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Swiss American women, Carnival, Bakers, Food habits, foodways, Cooking, Swiss, Helvetia (W. Va.)
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 hozablatz 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/"]%

4. Eleanor Betler and Sharon Rollins cut out hozablatz

Identifier:
4224.BetlerEleanor.Photo.009.2.5.16
Title:
Eleanor Betler and Sharon Rollins cut out hozablatz
Date:
2016-02-05
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Bakers, Cooking, Swiss, Helvetia (W. Va.), foodways, Carnival, Swiss American women, 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 hozablatz 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/"]%

5. Eleanor Betler teaches Sharon Rollins to make hozablatz

Identifier:
4224.BetlerEleanor.Photo.010.2.5.16
Title:
Eleanor Betler teaches Sharon Rollins to make hozablatz
Date:
2016-02-05
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Food habits, Bakers, Swiss American women, Carnival, Cooking, Swiss, foodways, Helvetia (W. Va.)
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 hozablatz 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/"]%

6. Eleanor Betler and Sharon Rollins fry rosettes in Betler's Helvetia kitchen

Identifier:
4224.BetlerEleanor.Photo.013.2.5.16
Title:
Eleanor Betler and Sharon Rollins fry rosettes in Betler's Helvetia kitchen
Date:
2016-02-05
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Food habits, foodways, Carnival, Helvetia (W. Va.), Cooking, Swiss, Swiss American women
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 hozablatz 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/"]%

7. Eleanor Betler fries rosettes with Sharon Rollins

Identifier:
4224.BetlerEleanor.Photo.014.2.5.16
Title:
Eleanor Betler fries rosettes with Sharon Rollins
Date:
2016-02-05
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Bakers, foodways, Helvetia (W. Va.), Carnival, Cooking, Swiss, Food habits, Swiss American women
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 hozablatz 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/"]%

8. Sharon Rollins teaches Emily Hilliard to make rosettes

Identifier:
4224.BetlerEleanor.Photo.015.2.5.16
Title:
Sharon Rollins teaches Emily Hilliard to make rosettes
Date:
2016-02-05
Creator:
Betler, Eleanor
Subject:
Bakers, Helvetia (W. Va.), Cooking, Swiss, Carnival, foodways, 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 hozablatz 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/"]%

9. Sharon Rollins and Eleanor Betler teach Emily Hilliard to fry rosettes

Identifier:
4224.BetlerEleanor.Photo.016.2.5.16
Title:
Sharon Rollins and Eleanor Betler teach Emily Hilliard to fry rosettes
Date:
2016-02-05
Creator:
Betler, Eleanor
Subject:
Cooking, Swiss, Helvetia (W. Va.), Carnival, Food habits, Bakers, foodways
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 hozablatz 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/"]%

10. Fresh rosettes fried by Eleanor Betler and Sharon Rollins

Identifier:
4224.BetlerEleanor.Photo.031.2.5.16
Title:
Fresh rosettes fried by Eleanor Betler and Sharon Rollins
Date:
2016-02-05
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
Bakers, foodways, Swiss American women, Helvetia (W. Va.), Food habits, Carnival, Cooking, Swiss
Location:
Helvetia (W. Va.)
["Sharon Rollins grew up in Charleston, West Virginia and moved to Dallas, TX when she was thirty years old. Upon retirement in 2010, she moved to Helvetia, West Virginia and has since become involved in a number of community projects. She manages the Ramp Supper, serves as treasurer for the Helvetia Community Fair, and volunteers at the Hutte Restaurant.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/"]%

11. Sharon Rollins fries rosettes in Eleanor Betler's Helvetia kitchen

Identifier:
4224.RollinsSharon.Photo.001.2.5.16
Title:
Sharon Rollins fries rosettes in Eleanor Betler's Helvetia kitchen
Date:
2016-02-05
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Subject:
foodways, Helvetia (W. Va.), Bakers, Carnival, Food habits, Cooking, Swiss
Location:
Helvetia (W. Va.)