This week’s post touches on two of my passions: collecting material culture and making material culture.

Although we tend to identify Pennsylvania Dutch artists as practicing a distinctive folk art style, artists of Pennsylvania Dutch stock run the entire gamut of the art world. Keith Haring is one of the most widely known and celebrated.

On a bitterly cold day in February 1784, General Peter Muhlenberg, enroute to Ohio, stayed at the Kucher homestead near present-day Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

This recipe comes from Gram’s family who lived down near Center Valley in Lehigh County. According to my great aunt (born in 1901), it was an old one handed down from home.