Most Northerners have never heard of Cleora Butler. But for many Tulsans her name conjures up fond memories of date nute cake, butternut squash bisque and burnt sugar ice cream. These recipes and ...

Born in 1901, Cleora Butler learned to cook from her ... the needs of their families ahead of their own. Below is Butler's signature recipe. In the 1940s, with the help of her mother, Butler ...

Some of Oklahoma's best cooks still use recipes from a cookbook published a month after its author died in 1985. Those recipes are still getting rave reviews. The book was compiled by Cleora ...

It took an omelette to bring Cleora Butler to Paulette Millichap. "A friend of mine had eaten an omelette that Cleora had made, and said it was the most fabulous ...

Proficient in Southern specialties like burnt-sugar ice cream and possum grape wine, the versatile Butler borrows from ... relatively simple and inexpensive recipes well organized into decades ...

I learned the backstory of this recipe. Cleora Butler, born in 1901 in Texas into a family of cooks, went north by wagon with her parents, former slaves, to Indian Territory, which they believed ...

Cleora’s people were lured to the West, to Indian Country, by the promise of free land, liberty and self-sufficiency.” In early 1986, Butler’s first and only book, a posthumous memoir composed of ...