Cottage Kitchen
Cottage Kitchen
The Cottage Kitchen Luncheons are held on Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Join us for a delicious home-cooked lunch served by community volunteers, The lunch is only $6.00 and that includes the hot meal, drink and your choice of a delicious dessert. The luncheon is held in the Charles S. Cock House Museum, located at the corner of Hopkins Street and C.M. Allen Parkway along the banks of the San Marcos River.
The Guild, a committee within the Heritage Association, is responsible for the Friday luncheons. The profits are a major source of income for preservation and beautification activities of the Heritage Association.
The Story
Once upon a time there was a sweet stone house in a little park alongside the San Marcos River. It was decided it would be an ideal place to serve lunches and make some money to furnish the little house and to develop the park around it.
A group of friends began serving good food from their family recipes in this house now listed on the National Register. For 20 years the Cottage Kitchen luncheons have continued to draw people from San Marcos and all over Texas on Fridays just to eat lunch in the historic little house furnished with primitive antiques.
From these luncheons several cookbooks resulted, and now the newest version, Twenty Years in the Cottage Kitchen. You may purchase this cookbook by sending $10.00 per copy plus $3.50 for postage and tax to The Heritage Association of San Marcos, Inc., P.O. Box 1806, San Marcos, Texas 78666-1806
The attractive house furnished with authentic primitive antiques is the setting each January for the Texas Arbor Day Ceremony. Each year the memory of a community leader is honored by the Heritage Association with the planting of a live oak tree in the River Walk Memorial Grove, a portion of the River Walk Park at the back of the House Museum. The ceremony concluded with a reception for family and guests in the Museum
The Cottage Kitchen Luncheons are held on Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Join us for a delicious home-cooked lunch served by community volunteers, The lunch is only $6.00 and that includes the hot meal, drink and your choice of a delicious dessert. The luncheon is held in the Charles S. Cock House Museum, located at the corner of Hopkins Street and C.M. Allen Parkway along the banks of the San Marcos River.
The Guild, a committee within the Heritage Association, is responsible for the Friday luncheons. The profits are a major source of income for preservation and beautification activities of the Heritage Association.
The Story
Once upon a time there was a sweet stone house in a little park alongside the San Marcos River. It was decided it would be an ideal place to serve lunches and make some money to furnish the little house and to develop the park around it.
A group of friends began serving good food from their family recipes in this house now listed on the National Register. For 20 years the Cottage Kitchen luncheons have continued to draw people from San Marcos and all over Texas on Fridays just to eat lunch in the historic little house furnished with primitive antiques.
From these luncheons several cookbooks resulted, and now the newest version, Twenty Years in the Cottage Kitchen. You may purchase this cookbook by sending $10.00 per copy plus $3.50 for postage and tax to The Heritage Association of San Marcos, Inc., P.O. Box 1806, San Marcos, Texas 78666-1806
The attractive house furnished with authentic primitive antiques is the setting each January for the Texas Arbor Day Ceremony. Each year the memory of a community leader is honored by the Heritage Association with the planting of a live oak tree in the River Walk Memorial Grove, a portion of the River Walk Park at the back of the House Museum. The ceremony concluded with a reception for family and guests in the Museum
