Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU: Evelyn Ziegler Tonra, St. Louis Park, MN, native of Beulah, ND, makes German dumplings or Knoepfla and cooked apples.
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU: Jacqueline Dohn Maas, Plymouth, MN, native of Lamoure, ND, shares her canning skills including making pickled watermelon. Her ancestors settled at Ashley and Wishek, ND.
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU: Betty Lackman Fiske (left), Plymouth, native of Billings, MT, and Bernelda Kallenberger Becker (right), St. Louis Park, demonstrate making of dumpling soup and butter glace (home made soup noodles).
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU: Martha Schaefer Suppan, Brooklyn Park, MN, native of Braddock, ND, makes Halupsie (pigs in the blanket). Martha's ancestral German villages are Lichtental and Rohrbach, Black Sea.
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU: Judy Eman Teske (left), Plymouth, native of Bottineau, ND, and Carol Just Halverson, St. Louis Park, native of Lamoure, ND, toast with their home-made wedding schnapps or "red eye."
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU: The Verrückte Frauen (crazy women) at the home of Carol Just Halverson, St. Louis Park, sharing their German-Russian cooking memories.
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU: Women expressing a German prayer before the meal.
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU: The women pose for a photograph with Praire Public Television staff (standing left to right): Tapio Kube, Bob Dambach and Dave Geck.