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Lake View Lutheran Lutefisk Dinner

Date: 11 10 1954
Description: Six women, some wearing aprons, preparing cakes while standing around a high table. Cakes and a stand mixer are on the table top. They are at Lakeview Ame...
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Christmas Season Activities

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: Jean Brickson and her daughters Ann, age 4, and Betty, age 2, make cut-out Christmas cookies.
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Classification for Teenagers

Date: 10 27 1958
Description: The Wisconsin State Journal has a new cookbook classification for teenagers. Beth Kube, a seventh grade student from Lake Mills, has the distinction...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Classification for Teenagers

Date: 10 27 1958
Description: The Wisconsin State Journal has a new cookbook classification for teenagers. Diane Meyer, a senior at Stoughton High School, is the second place win...
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Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description: Three sisters gather at one of their homes to carry on a 30 year Christmas time tradition of making a year's supply of lefsa. Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marqu...
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Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description: Mrs. Roy J. Nelson, 145 Marquette Street, is shown using a "floyve" stick to turn the lefsa while it bakes. She and her two sisters gathered at one of thei...
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Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description:  Mrs. John Berge, 25 N. 6th Street, begins the process of rolling out the flat, round cake known as "aevna" until it is one foot in diameter. She and her t...
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Women Make Year's Supply of Lefsa

Date: 11 19 1954
Description: Three daughters of Mrs. John G. Peterson gathered at one of their homes every year to carry on a 30 year, Christmas time, tradition of baking lefsa, a Norw...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest

Date: 08 18 1961
Description: Mrs. S.J. Chakelan is in her kitchen preparing a Beef Tenderloin with Bordelaise Sauce. The recipe won the third grand prize in the Wisconsin State Journal...
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Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest

Date: 08 22 1961
Description: Betty Anderson is serving her daughter Lori a piece of the "500 Cake" which won the Grand Prize in the Wisconsin State Journal Cookbook Contest.
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Italian Cookies

Date: 2004
Description: Joanne Schuepbach Jensen and Donna Dirienzo Skoug standing with the handmade Italian cookies (cuccidati) at Josie's Restaurant, 906 Regent Street.
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Pie Recipe from Girl Scout Cookies

Date: 03 06 1958
Description: Two Madison Girl Scouts try out a pie recipe that has a crumb crust made with Girl Scout cookies. Elizabeth Davis (left) and Mary Beth Gehner are shown at ...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Grandma Bayles rolling out Christmas cookies in the farm kitchen with Ann Denise, 3, and baby Gale, 5 months, nearby. One in a series of images depicting C...
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Meredeth Niemczyk, Crossing Guard

Date: 01 13 1959
Description: Crossing guard Meredeth Niemczyk is shown looking upon the pies and cookies that she bakes and freezes only on weekends because of her weekday interrupted ...

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