Recipes and Cookbooks: Food, Stories, Histories

 The Way to a Man's Heart or "The Settlement" Cookbook,

by Lizzie Black Kander

Image via Wikipedia

Here, you will find the following: 

• There are digitized samples from a primary source collection (called a "manuscript collection"). These are "primary sources" as the materials were created by, collected by, or are otherwise closely associated with Lizzie Black Kander (1858-1940). Kander lived in Milwaukee at the turn of the 20th century and was active in social outreach there. The Wisconsin Historical Society notes that Kander offered cooking classes at the Milwaukee Jewish Mission (later known as the Jewish Community Center of Milwaukee), and that the cooking classes resulted in a published and highly successful cookbook in 1901. For a little more about Kander and her cookbook, see this historical essay or this entry in the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee.

• There are also two examples of writing about Kander that demonstrate primary source research. Notably, one of these was written by an undergraduate student and is preserved through the MINDS@UW repository.

• Then, you will see some mid-century cookbooks, including two with a clear regional connection.

• Also included are some other historic cookbooks, digitized and available through national or international databases via your UWS credentials.

Credits

In addition to content produced by A. Barbour and the Reference Librarians at the JDHL, information here is drawn from the following sources: 

Fritz, Angela. (c. 2016). Lizzie Black Kander. In Encyclopedia of Milwaukee. https://emke.uwm.edu/entry/lizzie-black-kander/

The Settlement Cookbook. (17 October 2024). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlement_Cook_Book

Wisconsin Historical Society (n.d.). Historical Essay. Kander, Lizzie Black (1858-1940). https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS522

Wisconsin Historical Society. (n.d.). Papers of Lizzie Black Kander. [About this collection]. Papers of Lizzie Black Kander, Milwaukee Mss DN Milwaukee Area Research Center, Golda Meir Library, University of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/p15932coll5

Selections from the papers of Lizzie Black Kander  (1875-1960) (Milwaukee Area Research Center, Milwaukee Mss DN)

These digitized materials include historic and primary source items such as the handwritten 1898 Cooking Lesson Book, 1924 collection of printed menus authored by Kander, and collection of 1931 menus from the Abraham Lincoln [Settlement] house, 

"The papers of Lizzie Black Kander (1858-1940), whose social work among Russian Jewish immigrants in Milwaukee earned her the nickname, "Jane Addams of Milwaukee.” The original manuscripts are housed in three boxes (1 cubic foot) at the Milwaukee Area Research Center, Golda Meir Library, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as Milwaukee Mss DN." excerpted from WHS - Papers of Lizzie Black Kander - About this collection

For more information about Kander that is also an example of a primary source research see, for example: Angela Fritz, (Spring 2024), "Lizzie Black Kander and Culinary Reform in Milwaukee, 1880-1920," Wisconsin Magazine of History 87 (3): 36-49. 

Another relevant example of a secondary source is this undergraduate thesis, available through the MINDS repository: Emily Schreiner, (2011), "Pie and Pluralism: Lizzie Black Kander's Settlement Work in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1894-1922," UWEC Department of History. 

The library also has a biography of Kander that includes some recipes from this cookbook. 

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