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preserving Our Past: A Visual Journey of our Summer Kitchen

Yellow squash, zucchini, and onions on a wooden cutting board with a knife. — Vegetables for Prairie Stir Fry

Old-fashioned frying pan cooking meat over a wood fire stove. — Sausage cooking on open hearth for prairie stir fry

Sautéed yellow and green squash with ground meat in a cast iron pan. — Squash added to pan for prairie stir fry

Sliced onions and zucchini cooking in a pan over an open flame. — Onions added for prairie stir fry

Golden-brown bundt cake fresh out of a vintage mold on a cooling rack. — Rosemary cake

Pot pie preparation

Pot pie in kettles over open hearth flames

Strawberry rhubarb pie in the bake kettle

Strawberry rhubarb pie baking

strawberry rhubarb pie cooling

Summer kitchen in Winter

Student visitor picking pears with traditional picking pole

Peach tart baked in the hearth

Path leading to the summer kitchen

Children learn about traditional cooking in the summer kitchen

Plum tart turned baked in the hearth

Note of appreciation from school children visiting the summer kitchen

A new board is laid on the porch of the summer kitchen in 2025

Summer kitchen utensils

Lattice topped fruit pie baked in the hearth

Lunch is served open air--all prepared and cooked in the summer kitchen

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"Signs of the Times from the Township Historical Society"

See this article in the New Hanover Township's Spring/Summer 2026 Newsletter,

written by Bill Daley of NHTHS

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