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Hazel Kollig’s Swiss Steak
Recipe 6 Tbsp flour 2 tsp salt ¼ tsp pepper 2 lbs round steak, 1 inch thick 4 med onions, sliced 6 Tbsp shortening ½ cup chopped celery 1...

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Feb 6, 20223 min read


BRAUNSCHWEIGER DIP
By Dorothy Zehnder Recipe: 1 pound liverwurst, mashed I clove garlic, pressed ¾tsp.sweet basil ½ tsp. horseradish I Tablespoon minced...

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Jan 30, 20222 min read


Pumpkin Cake
From the 75th Anniversary Saginaw Fair cookbook Recipe For the cake: 2 cups sugar 4 eggs 2 cups pumpkin 1 cup oil 1/2 tsp vanilla 2 cups...

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Jan 23, 20223 min read


Reporting, Brewing and Russian Dressing
Russian Dressing “One small Spanish onion, 1 can pimentos, 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce, dash of cayenne, 1 cup oil, 1 teaspoon salt,...

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Jan 16, 20223 min read


Ladies' Aid Yellow Sauce
From “Domestic Review” 1929. Jefferson Ave. ME Church Recipe 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup flour 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp black pepper 1 1/2 cups...

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Jan 11, 20223 min read


Miss Macy Kitchen's Cinnamon Toast
From the 1929 edition of First Congregational Church’s Saginaw Cookbook. “Miss Macy Kitchen, who forever will be a tradition of wisdom,...

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Jan 2, 20223 min read


Wallace Strobel's Sausages & Beer Cheese
From the "Savoring Saginaw" cookbook published in 2007 by the Historical Society of Saginaw Recipe: 3/4 cup Frankenmuth Dark Beer 3/4 lb....

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Dec 26, 20212 min read


Mrs. Marti's Lebkuchen
LEBKUCHEN – 3 lbs. brown sugar, 1 cup water, 1 T soda, 1 T cloves, 1 T allspice, 4 eggs, well beaten, ¼ lb. citron, ¼ lb. almonds. Flour...

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Dec 19, 20213 min read


A Little History Behind one of the Homes on this Year’s Saginaw Bay Symphony House Walk
Donald Kimball was the architect of the fieldhouse\warming house in Hoyt Park. Kimball was also the designer of one of the sites featured...

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Dec 15, 20211 min read
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