Kitchen & Bar

In lively prose, historians Jane Conway and Randi Julia Ramsden reveal how quirky food fashions and regional traditions made their way to 1800s Wisconsin. Includes fifty retro recipes—and the history behind them—to inspire and delight home cooks everywhere.

Beyond Delicious: The Ghost Whisperer's Cookbook is part cookbook and part ghost story anthology; together, these elements create the most entertaining cookbook of the season.

The techniques, equipment, and recipes to enjoy the bounties of summer and autumn all year long!

A fresh take on traditional foods alongside interesting features on the quintessential uniqueness that makes Up North Wisconsin.

Serve your butter in a farm-to-table inspired art piece, because butter is better and Wisconsin is "The Dairy State!"

Absorbent Swedish dishcloth with WHS History Maker Space logo pattern.

Solid maple and handcrafted in the heart of America's DairyLand.

Wisconsin honey blended perfectly with Wisconsin maple syrup. A tastey topper for hotcakes, waffles, toast, oatmeal, popcorn and ice cream! Also nice in tea!

Pure Wisconsin maple syrup aged in Kentucky bourbon barrels. Perfect topper for hotcakes, waffles, toast, oatmeal, popcorn and ice cream! A customer favorite.

Pure Wisconsin maple syrup, always smooth with a gentle finish. Perfect topper for hotcakes, waffles, toast, oatmeal, popcorn — and ice cream!

Celebrate Wisconsin's (unofficial) state cocktail with this unique tumbler, a Society exclusive!

A Friday night fish fry isn't complete without drinking your favorite brewed beverage in our fish fry pilsner glass. Order before your next fish fry dinner party!

Celebrate Wisconsin with these state-shaped cookie cutters.

Belgian style beer glass from Old World Wisconsin's historic brewhouse. Pour and serve your favorite brews! 13 ounces.

Dungeness style beer glass from Old World Wisconsin's historic Brewhouse experience. 16 ounces.

A fun gift for Wisconsinites and cheese fanatics! 100% cotton.

This Pendarvis tea towel is inspired by the towels used at the historic Pendarvis House restaurant in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.

Wright's simple yet profound "Organic Commandment" expresses a broad application as a life philosophy. Cork-backing. Set of 4.

Dynamic and colorful trivet with the geometric Harold Price, Jr. Rug design by the famous Wisconsin architect.

Dynamic and colorful trivet with the geometric Hoffman Rug design by the famous Wisconsin architect.

Wright's Organic Commandments express his own ideals, but these poetic statements can offer inspiration to all every person in all. Cork-backing. Practical and decorative!

An absorbent natural stone trivet featuring a version of Frank Lloyd Wright's Saguaro Forms design. Cork backing. 8" square.

An absorbent natural stone trivet featuring Frank Lloyd Wright's Waterlilies design. Cork backing. 7.5" diameter.

A favorite at the museum store at Old World Wisconsin. French-milled. Choose classic lavender or our new lemon verbena scent. Buy more and save!

Crack open your favorite Wisconsin beer with this novelty beer bottle opener.

Seipp's Hollander Beer was made from 1908 and 1919 in Chicago, Illinois. by Conrad Seipp, who later moved to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Celebrate this historic brewer and pour out with this boot shot glass.

Nostalgic, funny, and warmhearted, Apple Betty & Sloppy Joe celebrates the ways food and food memories link us to our past, and to each other. A delightful gift for food lovers of any generation.

Paperback: $25.00
272 pages, 394 color and b/w photos and illus., 2 maps, 8 x 10
ISBN: 9780870208720

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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Paperback: $22.95
272 pages, 20 b/w photos, 8 x 8
ISBN: 9780870204623

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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Hardcover: $29.95
208 pages, 180 color photos, 7 ½ x 9
ISBN: 9780870208287

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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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.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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Old fashioned flavor from the bratwurst capitol of the world—Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Easy to use!

Eco-friendly beeswax wraps made of 100% natural organic materials. Package of three - large, medium, and small. A reusable alternative to plastic wraps!

Kitchen tea towel with bright candy cane motif. Cotton/linen blend.

For the Christmas memoribilia collector who has everything! Practical and nostalgic. Ceramic with cork backing.

Kitchen tea towel with snowflake design. Cotton/linen blend. Ready to gift.

Unique home decor from Rowe Pottery. Made in Wisconsin.

Unique home decor for autumn. Perfect accent for table top or entryway fall display. Made in Wisconsin.

The catch-all trinket tray you need for your bedroom or entryway. Moon phase inlays, from full moon to crescent. Handmade. Faire Trade. Unique.

Rest your cocktail on this handmade leather coaster, designed with quality and functionality in mind. Made in Wisconsin!

Perfect for making mojitos, brambles, juleps, whiskey smashes, and of course – brandy old fashioneds.

Premium cocktail cherries bathed in a rich and silky cherry syrup. Deep, dark, sweet, and juicy.

Set of four wood coasters engraved with the State's iconic shape and state flower, the wood violet. A Fair Trade product.