University of Wisconsin–Madison
One of the Max Kade Institute’s most requested outreach presentations is Mark Louden’s “Who Are the Amish?”. Mark had several talks scheduled for this spring that, unfortunately, we had to cancel or postpone. THE AMISH → Now that we are all staying at home, we invite you towatch one of Mark’s presentations online, “Who Are …
The weather is slowly getting warmer, and if the low supply of seeds in (online) gardening stores is any indication, many of us are planning some gardening. What better time to take a look at nineteenth century advice books for German-Americans gardeners! The most prominent of them was the Amerikanisches Gartenbuch für Stadt und Land (American gardening book …
Many of us are baking at home right now. So we will start our new “series” by sharing a few recipes from a nineteenth-century German-American cookbook: the “Practical Cook Book,” published in Milwaukee in 1904. The Max Kade Institute published a facsimile of this cookbook under the title “Pickled Hering and Pumpkin Pie.” You can …
