Castle Blog

Welcome to the Castle Cocktail Lounge! Back by popular demand, we will spend all of July looking at historical cocktail recipes. This...

Observant readers will find this recipe familiar. We featured it in 2020. This link will take you to our earlier post:...

Star of the West Milling Company began over 150 years ago as a small steam-powered mill in Frankenmuth, an area of tremendous...

While each of the posts featured in the Castle Museum's historic recipe blog are independent stories, there are often interconnected...

Today's social media Artifact post featured a glimpse of a unique bean sack from Michigan Bean Company's Jack Rabbit brand of beans, but...

“Each Day Saginaw people are becoming more interested in the peony, Saginaw’s official flower, according to those in charge of the...

“The name of Brand & Hardin loomed as the foremost one in the Saginaw Valley milling trade.” “Who has not heard of Gold Medal Flour?*...

“The Council will be asked to approve the purchase, from the executors of the Letitia M. Boyd estate the property at 1617 South...

"A bakery that became a Saginaw staple for more than 70 years will soon be closing its doors. The ovens at the Hamilton Home Bakery will...