Grape Wine Recipe: Wolle/Kuehn

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Name/Title

Grape Wine Recipe: Wolle/Kuehn

Entry/Object ID

2026.1.140

Scope and Content

Image #1 shows a vintage postcard addressed to Mrs. Elmer Kuehn, featuring a 1950 postmark from Mankato, Minn. Image #2 is of a handwritten recipe on the message side of the postcard, which provides detailed instructions for making grape wine. The writing is in cursive and appears to be a personal note addressed to Bernice. It begins with washing grapes and includes instructions for mashing the fruit, letting it stand in a stone jar, and straining the juice. It specifies storing it in gallon jugs for six weeks, and eventually bottling it for aging. The note is signed at the the bottom, "Hope you get this before you move. Betty".

Context

Betty and Berniece Quast were sisters from the Smiths Mill area. Berniece was born in 1921, married Elmer Kuehn and died in 2017. Betty was born in 1926 and was still alive in 2026.

Cataloged By

Pfen

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Postcard

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Writing Media

Nomenclature Class

Written Communication T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication

Create Date

July 22, 2026

Update Date

July 22, 2026