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Iola Kreamer displaying Christmas Baking

Date: 12 05 1956
Description: Iola Kreamer, 306 East Sunset Court, Shorewood Hills, displaying a sample of her Christmas baking, including cookies, candies, and fruit cakes.
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Robert Neal Baking Cornish Pasty

Date: 1942
Description: Robert Neal baking Cornish pasty at Pendarvis.
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Camp Bowie

Date: 1918
Description: A view of four men standing near a row of Army baking ovens at Camp Bowie, built in 1917.
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Students Learn to Bake

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Description: These young men and boys are students in a baking class at a vocational school.
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Judkins Family Baking

Date: 1913
Description: Leonore Judkins, later Mrs. Forest Middleton, center, prepares baked goods with her mother, far left, and sisters, Juanita, Bonnie, and Blanch. Bread and r...
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Baker's Dozen Bread Club

Date: 07 1923
Description: Miss Marilla Zearling demonstrating a bread-making technique to members of the Baker's Dozen Bread Club.
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Home Economics Class

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Description: Six young girls in a home economics class stand around a table, measuring and pouring ingredients into a bowl. A girl to the far right holds a finished bak...
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Happy Way Malt Syrup

Date: 1929
Description: Label from a can of Happy Way brand dark, hop flavored malt syrup. Picture on the label shows a woman wearing an apron and holding a can of the malt syrup ...
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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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Making Pumpkin Pie

Date: 10 22 1954
Description: Virginia Price's kindergarten class making pumpkin pie at Dudgeon School. Left to right: Nancy Olmstead, Julie Duckwitz, Marcia Kampen, Larry Elliott, and ...
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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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Checking Dane County Fair Entries

Date: 07 15 1959
Description: Food entries at the 1959 Dane County Junior Fair total 1,650 including 76 loaves of bread. Shown examining a loaf of bread are, (left to right): Ilene Ball...
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Checking Dane County Fair Entries

Date: 07 15 1959
Description: Awaiting cookie judging results at the 1959 Dane County Junior Fair are shown (left to right) Eileen Birkinbine, Nancy Birkinbine, Jo Ann Lothe, and Jane W...
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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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