ROCHELLE – The Flagg Township Museum will host a reception on Sunday, Feb. 27 from 1-4 p.m. highlighting a new exhibit in the Cabinet of Curiosities at the museum. To celebrate the museum’s year-long theme of “there’s no place like home” the first exhibit of the season features artifacts and information about being “At Home in the Kitchen.”

Special items on exhibit include kitchen utensils, cross-stitch samplers, a slaw cutter, butter churn, storage tins, spice jars and more. There is information about the history of Ball Canning Jars, Griswold Cast Iron and the Pyrex Story and even some early kitchen inventions by women. Is the kitchen only a woman’s place? Share your thoughts and take the survey “Who’s in the Kitchen at Your House?” 

Enjoy refreshments made from recipes found in historic Rochelle cookbooks. On hand will be an appetizer from the 1928 Culinary Guide printed by the Rochelle Catholic Ladies of St. Patrick’s Church and owned by Vera Herrmann. From the Epworth League Cook Book printed by the Methodist Episcopal Church of Rochelle is a recipe for snow cake submitted by Mrs. Ed Wade in about 1890. Edith P. handwrote her recipe for brownies in her small spiral book of recipes, date unknown. It’s a taste of the kitchen, history style.

The museum is open Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The mission of the Flagg Township Historical Society and Museum is to stimulate interest in Flagg Township history through education, research, collection and preservation of information for the benefit of the public of today and in the future.