Dottie Schuetz said her mother Mary Irene made an amazing Hungarian goulash along with a homemade cottage cheese cheesecake that proved to be very difficult to replicate.
“I tried to make one like it,” said Dottie. “I had the recipe and it turned out like a brick.”
Dottie recalled at a family gathering a majority of those in attendance took one bite and threw the rest out. “I don’t know what went wrong,” she laughed. “It was one of those old-fashioned German recipes.”
Other moms mentioned were famous for their bakery or, according to Jim Sprouse, personal birthday cakes were a special treat.
“I’m the son of Mary Sprouse who has passed on and what she used to make for me was poppy seed cake every birthday,” he said. “That was my favorite. It had marshmallow topping. As kids we called it fly-eye cake,” he said, referencing the look of the black poppy seeds in the white frosting.
Local real estate agent Wendy Wendorff is the daughter of Donnie Hayes. “My mom makes the best taco dip and just like my mom it is nothing fancy but has alll the good stuff,” she said.
Lana Alexandra, co-owner of A&W Iron and Metal said she is the daughter of Gloria Weiss Gloria. “My mom really made the best of everything; she was a great cook, and still is but she made the best quilts.
“She made handmade quilts and hand-tied the quilts for all of us kids and our kids.”
Other moms in the community were known for their German recipes, zucchini bread, and even their work behind the bar.
Keith Keane and “My mother Doris Besh grew up in Cedarburg, Wi and I remember her baking bread and I’d come home from school and the aroma would fill the house. I’d cut a nice slice off the end of the warm bread and put on a hunk of butter, and it was just delicious,” said Keith Keehn. “She also made her own Manhattans, and she drank them.”
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