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Ripon Historical Society welcomes Susan Apps-Bodilly to its annual membership dinner, discussing Old Farm Country Cookbook, written by Susan and her father, beloved storyteller Jerry Apps.
Membership meeting: 5:30PM
Dinner presentation: 6:00 PM
Recipes from the book will be prepared by Ripon Historical Society volunteers and board members to serve after the annual membership meeting. For those of you who are not RHS members but wish to attend the presentation and partake of the delicious recipes, there will be a fee of $10.
About the book: Return to an era when all food was local and farming was a family-run affair with Old Farm Country Cookbook. Authors Susan Apps-Bodilly and Jerry Apps share the farm family food that only Jerry's mother knew how to make in this warm-hearted, memoir-style cookbook plucked right from Eleanor Apps's Depression Era recipe box. 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.
Susan Apps-Boddilly is a retired educator and writer holding a BA in Elementary Education and an MA in Curriculum and Instruction. She is the author of four books, including Seeds in Soil: Planting a Garden and Finding Your Roots, One Room Schools, and the forthcoming book Timber! A Northwoods Story Lumberjacks, Logging, and the Land, co-written with Jerry Apps and published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
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