For West Virginia Day, Mike Costello & Amy Dawson of Lost Creek Farm in Harrison County, WV teach us to make pepperoni rolls. Originating with Italian miner families in northern West Virginia in the 1920s, pepperoni rolls are now a beloved West Virginia food and are popular across the state.
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Ingredients needed:
Olive oil
Pepperoni
Melted butter
4 cups allpurpose flour
2 cups whole milk
2 Tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast

Mike Costello and Amy Dawson are the proprietors of Lost Creek Farm, a working farm and heritageinspired culinary venture based in southern Harrison County. As farmers, cooks, and storytellers, the duo take great pride in sharing the rich, diverse foodways of West Virginia, at venues throughout Appalachia and around the eastern United States. Lost Creek Farm has been featured by The New York Times, The Bitter Southerner, and CNN’s Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.

http://www.lostcreekfarmwv.com/

Mike Costello was a 2018 recipient of a West Virginia Humanities Council fellowship for his project, "Common Links: The Women Keeping West Virginia's Sausage Making Traditions Alive." Amy Dawson was an apprentice in salt rising bread in the 2018 West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program.

Visit the West Virginia Folklife Program blog at: wvfolklife.org

The West Virginia Folklife Program is a project of the West Virginia Humanities Council and is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Folk & Traditional Arts Program. West Virginia Folklife is dedicated to the documentation, preservation, presentation, and support of West Virginia’s vibrant cultural heritage and living traditions.

The West Virginia Humanities Council, an independent nonpartisan nonprofit institution, is the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. With the support of the NEH, the State of West Virginia, and contributions from the private sector, the Council’s mission is to support a vigorous program in the humanities statewide in West Virginia.

For more information, visit: wvhumanities.org