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This is no ordinary cookbook project. The Tri-County Tourism Alliance (click on the logo to like us on Facebook) is collecting recipes, stories and folklore for a very special cookbook about the food culture of the people who lived in McIntosh, Emmons and Logan Counties.
This is not a book written about the Germans from Russia, this is a book written BY the Germans from Russia that still live in the three counties today. We would like to have copies of the book available for purchase by June of 2013. But we need you help – comments, interviews, pictures and recipes from your grandparents and great grandparents who survived on the prairie without many resources including electricity.
The final product will be a beautiful narrative with stories about food, preparation, gardening, butchering, what ever comes straight from the oldest living generation of Germans from Russia in three counties – Logan, McIntosh and Emmons.
Please consider being a part of this important documentation of the food culture of the Germans from Russia. Our mothers taught us to cook, but the connection between food, farms and families has been lost.
There is a new generation of cooks hungry for the knowledge of bread baking, kuchens and pies; the art of strudels or dumplings; gardening; foraging for native fruits; making butter, butchering chickens and doing what ever necessary to feed a family.
We are looking for recipes and traditions that are particular to the Germans from Russia culture. Think about how your grandmother made sauerkraut, watermelon pickles, ice cream, special holiday sweets, dough foods, sausages, head cheese, pickled pigs feet, etc. etc.
We are collecting specifically from McIntosh, Logan and Emmons County past and present residents. We would also like to find photographs of food and food related events, butchering day, etc.
Collection of the interviews and creating an archive of recipes, stories and photos is funded in part with a grant from the North Dakota State Historical Society and many volunteer hours.
If you would like to assist with the printing, distribution and advertising costs of the actual book by making a small donation, that would be greatly appreciated. A cookbook ordering page will be available on this site soon.
If you need assistance, please do not hesitate to contact: Sue B. Balcom at 701-527-5169 or by email: DasGuteEssen@hotmail.com or Carmen Rath Wald at 701-754-2504.
Here is a FORM.pdf to print, fill in the blanks and mail to Sue Balcom, 2145 34th Street, Mandan, ND 58554.
My husband’s parents were first generation Russian Germans who came to the United States in 1896. We are very interested in your cookbook and might even have a recipe or two for it.
Please by all means send the recipes. We are also really looking for photos of farms, animals, gardens, etc… so bring em on… sue
I was wanting to request a copy of the cookbook/coffee table book when available, thanks
Hi Angie, we will be collecting information this fall and then offering a presale price on the book. So if you would like to send my your contact info I will put it in our data base, address and phone… thanks for your interest, I need to get going on the project it will be a huge one… Sue
Sure
it is 5675 county road 81
St.Anthony ND 58566
My grandfather came over from russia on the Lusitania as a 5 year old. His name was Alex G. Schmiess. I will contact living relatives and check on recipes.. I also want to pre order 10 copies.of the cookbook… great idea!.
tammi kartes
tammik@daktel.com
Oh my goodness.That’s great. Can you provide me your physical address and contact info. Privately at dasguteessen@hotmail.com. That way it won’t be all over the Internet. And, thanks again. Sue
What is your deadline for receiving recipes? My great-grandparents (mom’s side) were among the early settlers in McIntosh county and my grandparents lived in Logan county. Actually, I guess my dad was probably born in Logan county, come to think of it.
Would that have been Logan County near Gackle by any chance? I sent you an email reply to your question. Please feel free to ask more… or just send that stuff to me…
Sounds like a great project. I too would like to know when you book is published. My parents were from the Ashley, Eureka area and grandparents lived their all their lives. I will have to dig through my mom’s old cookbooks, am sure there may be some interesting recipes there. What will be your deadline for recipe entries?
You just send those recipes and photos as soon as you can, our deadline is August 2012… Thanks, Sue
I talked to my husband and he thought he would like to be interviewd on some of the history of his parents, and things he remembers of his grandparents,,, having lived on the home place all of his life, and now having our son and grandson living here as well,, not usre if that is possible,, I also would have some of my grandmothers recipes I can submit,,, if that is possible.. Donna Eszlinger Ashley, ND
Donna, I will be in the area in December doing interviews, would you consider a video interview for our project? Please send me a private email at dasguteessen@hotmail.com with your contact information and you will be hearing from me….don’t for get to hunt for photos of the farm, garden, fields, cooking, etc. even up to 70s…. I will take a portrait shot of you and your husband when I shoot through there, thanks, Sue
Donna, I’m coming to Ashley Jan. 13… are you available at 1:30ish for an interview? Sue
I would be interested in contributing–I may have a photo or two of my mother–Katherine (Katie) Meidinger making Plachinda with my daughter in the late 80s or early 90s-she made some really good plachinda and I have her recipe books and collection.
Dear Karen, we would LOVE to have your photo(s) and recipes. If you wish to send them to me, I will scan them and return them the same day in the mail. Also, if you could type out the recipes and/or send them and I could type them and return them, that would be very cool. My cousin scanned her mom’s handwritten cookbook, what a treasure that is what we are looking for… Thank you for the email. Are you related to my mom’s side of the family? Or the other Meidingers… if you need any questions answered and would not like them to show up on the blog please email me at dasguteessen@hotmail.com. Happy New Year.
It depends which Meidingers we’re talking about. My parents were Aaron & Katherine (Raile) Meidinger (rural Zeeland); dad’s parents were John R. & Lydia Meidinger (rural Zeeland & later Ashley). Mom’s parents were Jacob & Christine Raile (Wishek).
I will scan the photos–what resolution do you want?
It may be awhile, Speech Season is beginning for me–I’m the coach for Dakota Prairie.
My Aunt Alice Kaseman was related to the Raile’s and my mom’s parents were Albert C. and Emma Meidinger. I would bet we are talking about the same Aunt Katie…the higher res the better. If the photos are 3×5 ish… then 600dpi would be great. If they are 8x10s – 300 dpi… many thanks and don’t forget to include as much info as possible don’t worry about proper sentences or anything. That’s our job. Sue
Alice is my cousin–Mom’s God daughter–and delightful artist. So which one of Arlene’s sisters or brothers is you parent? Arlene & I went to school together in country school for seven years and then 5 years at Zeeland High School. (I still haven’t sent my Christmas cards out to wither Alice or Arlene, this yeatr–I’m shootin’ for .Epiphany cards, I think!!!
Thanks for the information–I’ll try to get the stuff done in the next couple of weeks or so.
Karen
My mom’s youngest sister is Arlene, married to Melvin Kaseman, my dad’s cousin… it gets complicated. LOL
My Germans-from Russia grandparents came to the USA as little children from Odessa, Russia on the same ship and their parents arranged their marriage when they were 2 and 6 years old. When they were married, they lived in the Center, ND area and were farmers. My grand-mother was Monica Matz Mosbrucker and my grand-father was Florian Mosbrucker. Their first 4 children (including my mother) were born in ND and then they moved on to Canada and then Montana. I completed the circle by moving to ND in 1984 and have had a good time learning more about the Germans from Russia!
My great-grandmother’s brother, Johann Buechler, Jr. had a butcher shop in/near Gackle, ND in the very early 1900s. Their parents’ farm was on the northern edge of what is now Gackle, just over the county line in Stutsman County. I would love a copy. Could you send me info when it is ready? Thanks.
Cool, my mother worked for Gackle Packing Company in the 1970s… you wouldn’t happen to have any photos or other information about this business of your Great Uncle?
This sounds wonderful. My Dad, John Wallenten, came from Russia in 1905 with his mom and stepfather.Johanns Wagner and Christina (Goetz) Wallenten Wagner. My mother’s parents were born in Russia and arrived in the U.S. in 1901. Her name was Bertha Kramlich, daughter of Samuel and Bertha (Michta) Kramlich. My family lived in the Wishek area until 1943 when my father moved to California to work in the shipyards. My husband’s mother Magdalena Becker was also born in Russia, his father was born in Alma, Nebraska but moved to ND as a young man. They lived in the Lehr area and are both buried in the Lehr cemetary. My husband and I made many trips to ND in our 57 years together, he died in May of 2011. I would like information about the cookbook when it is completed. I have a couple that I have purchased from previous centennial celebrations and also have “Sei Unser Gast” and “Kuche Kochen.”
Maryln, do you have any history on the butcher shop, or even better some photos? Please send them to me…emaill or snail mail.
I liked to include my husband’s name and his father. My husband was Bernhard (Barney) Kauk his father was John Kauk. Many of the Kauks’ living in the area are related to Barney.
iI grew up in S.D. but close enough to Venturia, N.D., that we could hear the train whistle. Good luck with your project. I hope when people send you recipes they will not forget the ones for things like chokecherry and rhubarb wine and jelly and for making sausage, etc.
We have sausage we have a wine recipe but we could use some rhubarb recipes.
I have been following some of the comments and recipes that have been put in the blog. I am not from the area but used to live in Napoleon for a short time so I know there are a lot of fantastic cooks in the area. I was talking to my mother and she mentioned that her mother used to make what they call Chow Chow out of green tomatoes but could not remember the recipe. So was wondering if anyone out their heard of this dish.
Absolutely, at the end of the garden season, you mix all things together, grind em up and pickle them…. I will post a recipe when I come across it…
Will still take recipes for the cookbook?
Yes we will, Send them to 2145 34th Street, Mandan, ND 58554 or dasguteessen@hotmail.com. Thank you… Sue
This sounds great. My Grandparents,,father/mother grew up in around the Ashley, Kulm area. Fathers last name ;;Bertsch. My Mother was a Schock. I have many relatives inthe Ashley area. I grew up in the Forbes area BUT my parents since 1976 live inEllendale now. I will have to try and get a cookbook. YUMM;;;;;;YUMM!!!!!!!!!
My grandparents came from the Odessa, Russia area. Both my parents were born in ND. My mother grew up in the Napoleon area and my Dad south of Tappen. I was wondering if you are still taking recipes. I have some of my mother’s recipes including her recipe for kuchen. My Dad’s last name was Albrecht and my mother’s was Kapp
Yes please send files to dasguteessen@hotmail.com and if you have original handwritten recipes, please scan at high resolution, and photos also of kitchen, cooking, farming, animals, milking, etc… to us. THANK YOU. But please hurry.
The link that you sent to the Germans from Russia Foodways site wouldn’t open. I got a new computer with Windows 8 so maybe that is the problem. I notice others can open it. Please like the Foodways site on the Tri-County page. I post about the site but it keeps getting removed. Don’t understand why. Gwen
would you still consider taking recipes at this time or is the book done
The book is in prepress, we have been collecting for two years. We had to stop at some point and put it together.