Book Tour - Lois Herr's "Dear Coach"

3:03 AM Posted by MAC


Sand Tarts
One of Lois Herr's Favorite Recipes


1/2 Cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg, well beaten
1 3/4 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 egg white
blanched almonds
1 tablespoon sugar

Cream butter, add sugar gradually, egg, and flour mixed and sifted with baking
powder. Chill, roll 1/8 inch thick (or as thin as possible), and shape with doughnut cutter or other cookie cutter. Brush over with egg white and sprinkle with sugar mixed with cinnamon. Split almonds and arrange 3 halves on each cookie at equal distances. Place on buttered sheet and bake 8 minutes in moderately slow oven (325 degrees F.).

Recipe used by my mother Kathryn N. Herr, taken from The Boston Cooking School Cookbook by Fannie Merritt Farmer, published by Little, Brown, and Company in 1936.

Team Talk with Lois
Herr, author of Dear Coach: Letters Home from WWII


From 1932 to 1949, my father, Elizabethtown College coach Ira Herr, was a one-man Physical Education and Athletics Department, coaching basketball for men and women, baseball, tennis, soccer, and cross-country.

Working at a small private-arts college in Pennsylvania his years of multi-sports coaching allowed him to often coach the same group of athletes from one sports season to the next. As you can imagine, he formed a very close bond to his athletes and they often looked to him for guidance, leadership and even
friendship. When many of these athletes began heading off to serve in WWII they looked to my father as a link to the life they once knew.

As their world began turning upside down, Dad wrote to them to keep them informed of what was going on with their friends, families and school. This strong connection kept many a man blindly heading into this future linked closely and comfortably with his past.

In Dear Coach: Letters Home from WWII http://loisherr.com/ I’ve compiled together a variety of the letters mom and I stumbled across in the attic written to dad, with pictures, scrapbook clippings, newspaper articles and a wide variety of historical information from the time to paint a picture of what life must have been like for these small-town college men and women as not only their country went into war, but so did their friends and family.

I hope you have as enlightening of a time reading Dear Coach as I did writing it. Follow the rest of
Lois Herr’s virtual book tour by stopping by her official blog to see where she’s headed next http://dearcoachlettershome.blogspot.com/
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2 comments:

  1. MAC said...

    The book sounds great. With the world as it is today, we all need to understand the feelings of our men and women who are defending our freedom and country. And what better way to do that than to read their letters.
    Martha

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