Alaska Sourdough

Ruth Collin Allman, an Alaskan pioneer, author, and educator was the niece of Alaska territorial judge James Wickersham. Ruth was born in Boston in 1905 and raised in the Territory of Alaska. She graduated from the University of Washington School of Music, and for twenty years she taught art and music in the Juneau schools. In 1949, she married Alaska pioneer Jack Allman. They lived in Southeast Alaska in Excursion Inlet and established Tongass Lodge, a remote base for hunters and fisherman forty miles northwest of Juneau. It was here that Ruth developed many of her sourdough recipes including her “flaming sourdough waffles.” After her husband died in 1953, Ruth devoted herself to being hostess and caretaker of the House of Wickersham, the judge's home on the hill overlooking Juneau and what shortly thereafter became the state capital. Ruth Allman passed away in 1989 at the age of eighty-four. She was one of Alaska's foremost sourdough historians. Her ALASKA SOURDOUGH cookbook has been in print for over thirty-five years and remains a perennial best seller.

Ruth and Sourdough      pg 1

Saga of Sourdough        pg 11

Sourdough Pot                pg 24

Sourdough Starter          pg 36

Sourdough Hotcakes     pg 51

Sourdough Bread          pg 81

Sourdough Waffles      pg 103

Sourdough Desserts   pg 118

Sourdough Doughnut-Cakes pg 134

Sourdough syrup           pg 154

Rosehips n' Sourdough  pg 171

Sourdough Hints            pg 185