Seasoned with personal stories, menus, and family photos, Old Farm Country Cookbook recalls a time when electricity had not yet found its way to the farm, when making sauerkraut was a family endeavor, and when homemade ice cream tasted better than anything you could buy at the store.
Small town Wisconsin native Peggy Prilaman Marxen recounts her family's rural farming life and its evolution from her settler ancestors to the modern day.
Take a nostalgic ride around the fair with celebrated rural historian, Jerry Apps, as the former 4-H leader and fair judge showcases the history of Wisconsin county fairs (and the state fair) in this salute to one of the Midwest’s greatest summer traditions!
Much more than a cookbook! This paperback edition makes this seminal work accessible for a new generation of foodies, home cooks, and history lovers. 450 recipes.
Graze your feet into these spotted cow socks and your friends will respond with "udder" amusement. Socks contain no actual dairy products. Fits Women’s shoe size 5 - 10.5.
A heartfelt and humorous memoir about the hard, laborious life on a farm in the early 1960s, a dairy operation on 700 acres of rich Illinois bottomland.
In lively prose, historians Jane Conway and Randi Julia Ramsden reveal how quirky food fashions and regional traditions made their way to 1800s Wisconsin. Includes fifty retro recipes—and the history behind them—to inspire and delight home cooks everywhere.