Wisconsin
4 dishes from Wisconsin, cooked the way the place cooks them.
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Beer Cheese Soup
A roux carries the cheese, the cheese goes in off the heat, and the beer goes in last of all — which is the order the oldest printed version of this soup already gave in 1962.
- Total
- 45 min
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 465 per serving
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Bratwurst Simmered in Beer and Onions
Browned first, then held in a pan of beer and sliced onions kept deliberately under the boil, so the casings stay whole and the onions become the sauce.
- Total
- 1 hr
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 610 per serving
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Friday Night Fish Fry, Yellow Perch
Small perch fillets in a cold beer batter, fried hot and short, with tartar sauce, rye bread and a wedge of lemon — the plate a Wisconsin Friday is built around.
- Total
- 40 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 745 per serving
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Fried Cheese Curds
Cheddar stopped halfway through its own making — salted, never pressed, never aged — chilled hard, dropped in a cold beer batter and fried for ninety seconds.
- Total
- 50 min
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 540 per serving