"Pickle Your Easter Eggs"
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Title
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"Pickle Your Easter Eggs"
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Description
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The front and back of a clipping pasted in a scrapbook from the Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. The clipping contains a recipe for pickling dyed Easter eggs written by culinary journalist Clementine Paddleford. The back contains various advertisements.
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Mother Bethel AME is one of the oldest Black Churches in the United States and the originator of the AME denomination, which the church’s founder, Bishop Richard Allen had incorporated in 1816. Its congregation held its first official service on July 29, 1794. The property on which the church rests was purchased in 1787 and is the oldest parcel of property continuously owned by African Americans in the US (Mother Bethel AME 2025).
Scrapbooking, whether practiced as a hobby or an intentional form of cultural reclamation and narrative making, serves as a form of resistance, collective joy making, and memory keeping.
The scrapbooker(s) most likely took the clipping from “This Week,” which was the “New York Herald Tribune’s nationally distributed Sunday Supplement (Levitt 2023).
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Contributor
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Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
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Date Created
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c. 1950s
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Rights
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This work is not in copyright, but commercial uses of this digital representation are limited. For more information, contact Mother Bethel AME Church and see http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/
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Identifier
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XVI. Scrapbook
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Language
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eng
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Format
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Text
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Extent
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1 page
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Spatial Coverage
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Philadelphia, PA
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Subject
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African American churches
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Easter eggs
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Formulas, recipes, etc.
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Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Paddleford, Clementine, 1898-1967
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Pickled foods
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Scrapbooks
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Bibliographic Citation
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Levitt, Aimee. “Clementine Paddleford’s ‘How America Eats’ Chronicled the Tastes of a Nation.” Eater, April 21, 2023.
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Mother Bethel AME. “FAQ’s - Mother Bethel AME.” Mother Bethel AME, April 1, 2025.
Recipe for pickled eggs