Betty groff biography

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  • Betty Groff (September 8, 1935 – November 8, 2015) wrote six cookbooks, owned a restaurant with her husband, Abe, and shared her Pennsylvania Dutch cooking.

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    Betty Groff has a lot in common with cracker pudding. Both are familiar, sweet and soothing. Yet, there`s more than meets the eye.

    Take the pudding, for example. Cracker pudding looks like vanilla custard, has the creaminess and texture of rice pudding and the smug blandness inherent in comfort food. Groff`s signature dessert, cracker pudding, is addictive.

    As for Groff, a small, trim blonde in her early 50s, she`s regarded by people in the food world as spokesperson for Pennsylvania Dutch cooking. In Chicago recently, she demonstrated recipes from her latest cookbook at Carson Pirie Scott & Co.`s Kitchentech.

    There`s more to the native of Lancaster County, Pa., than her sensible clothes, her pastel blouse and skirt protected by an apron.

    Early on in her chatty demo you learn of her farm upbringing, her enjoyment of good food, her marriage and two children.

    It is easy to envision her at home in that rural community in southeastern Pennsylvania-a woman reared by melon farmer

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    Betty Groff

    On March 15, 2020 Betty Lou Cocke Groff went home to be with her Savior.  She was 77 years young and was surrounded by love from her children when she entered her sista resting place with the Lord. Betty Lou was born in Danville, Virginia on September 20, 1942 to the late Harry and Katherine Bertha Cocke.  She was preceded in death bygd her husband, Charles Emile Groff; sisters, Jeanette vit, Shirley Yeatts and Helen Pleasant and brothers, Frank Cocke and Bobby Cocke.

    Betty Lou worked at Connie Hack Buick and Rountree Pontiac. She loved doing accounting work.  Her favorite job was spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She attended Colonial Heights Baptist Church and Smyrna Baptist Church.  She loved God and would tell everyone around her about Him.  No one was a stranger.  During her struggle with cancer, she would always tell the people she ran into that God loves you and so do I.  She would thank them for

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    Betty Groff

    American celebrity chef and cookbook author

    Not to be confused with Betty Grof.

    Elizabeth "Betty" R. Groff (néeHerr, September 14, 1935 – November 8, 2015) was an American celebrity chef, cookbook author, and authority on Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine. Groff authored six cookbooks focusing on Pennsylvania Dutch foods, including Good Earth and Country Cooking, which Time magazine called "one of the top five regional cookbooks introduced in 1981."[1]

    In 2015, The Patriot-News further praised her contributions to regional food traditions, writing "Groff was to Pennsylvania Dutch food what the late chef Paul Prudhomme was to Cajun cooking."[1]

    Formative years

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    Groff was born in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, to Clarence N. and Bertha K. Root Herr.[2] She was a 10th generation PennsylvaniaMennonite and a direct descendant of Hans Herr.[2][3] She married her husband, Abram B. Groff, on November 12, 1955.&

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