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Mankato cookbook credited with printing first hot dish recipe, Mankato Free Press, February 21, 2016

Beyond hotdish — cooking with Lutherans, Hennepin History, vol. 80, no. 1, 2021

The maternal line of Jell-O and lutefisk

woman holding white bowl containing yello Jell-O and probably canned mandarin orange slices — The Hoedown hostess’ mother, Penny Bosselmann, offering 2006 holiday fare.

Woman holding glass 9x13-inch pan filled with lutefisk — 2006: Hostess’ stepmother, Cecy, holds lutefisk, which is not quite Jell-O but is gelatinous. She serves it every Christmas Eve.