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If she left it hanging on the door, however, the man would have to retrieve his rejected mangle. Then he would have to make a new mangle the next time he wanted to propose. So a man with many mangles had been turned down several times – probably for good reason.
A man would make a mangle and hang it on the door of a woman he wanted to marry. If she took it inside, it meant she said ‘yes’ and they were engaged.
Courtenay Van Fossen may look old fashioned. In her long blue skirt and plaid apron, she seems a page from the past. But she can tell you a thing or two about cooking in some of today’s newfangled appliances.
“It used to take three or four hours to make this brown bread,” Van Fossen said, sharing a recipe for brown bread at the Historic Pioneer Village Museum in Nisswa, Minnesota.
Opened in 1999, Pioneer Village preserves the past so future generations can appreciate the local heritage. The village includes a homestead, bank, schoolhouse and livery along with the Nisswa Area Historical Society History Center. The Swedish, German and Norwegian immigrant houses were added in 2002.
The village also has a beautiful Heritage Garden featuring plants that pioneers in the area might have grown. Created by the Nisswa Area Black Bear 4-H Club along with the Historical Society [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the garden has “antique” flowers that have been in local families for over half a century. “Pioneer women would have traded seeds and plants with neighbors to start their gardens [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” Carlson said.
It wasn’t unusual in those days to put a potato on top of the schoolhouse wood stove for a hot lunch. Mothers would put a dab of butter in a child’s lunch pail for the cooked potato.
When immigrant settlers came to the area, one of the first things they did was set up a school. They wanted their children to learn the language of the land. Minnesota didn’t phase out its small schoolhouses until the 1950s.
Mangles were a wooden paddle used to smooth out cloth after it was washed. The clothes would be wrapped around a thick round stick, then smoothed with the mangle to get out wrinkles. But the mangle was also used in a Norwegian courting ritual.
Man of Many Mangles
“Nisswa was a town that kept moving around,” said Dick Carlson, society president. Founded because of the logging and railroad industry [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Nisswa originally had several different locations and names. “It was finally named ‘Nisswa’ in 1908 after the Ojibwa word for ‘three.’ There were three lakes in a row.”
“In the old days, this would have taken hours steaming in a mold in a kettle over hot water over the fire. In the microwave, it will take five or six minutes. And it’s very good.”
The three immigrant houses are decorated with family heirlooms and treasures. They are also filled with little bits of folklore, such as the old saying “Beware a man with many mangles.” For those who think the undesirable fellow may be a man with tangled unkempt hair, pioneer village shares the real story.
BROWN BREAD1 cup buttermilk½ cup rye flour½ cup whole wheat flour½ cup cornmeal1/3 cup molasses1 teaspoon baking soda½ teaspoon salt1 cup raisi
A volunteer at the museum’s summer kitchen, Van Fossen also shares a recipe for corn cakes. The corn cakes are especially good served with warm honey, molasses or maple syrup.