Favorite Amish Foods
While I was in the US in February, we had Amish visitors at my parents’ home in North Carolina. One morning one of our guests took it upon herself to whip up a truly scrumptious breakfast casserole. It...
View ArticleAmish Home Cooking
Home Cookin’ is a regular feature in The Connection magazine. Each month Home Cookin’ serves up four recipes from Amish ladies from different communities. The August 2011 issue, for example, features...
View ArticleAmish Spreads
A reader in Illinois shares a photo of 3 spreads given by an Amish neighbor, along with a loaf of bread and a thank-you note. I have eaten 2 of these 3 (tasty). Do you know what they are, and when...
View ArticleThe Amish Dinner Table
How do Amish families eat? I want to thank reader Lattice for sharing her experience eating with Amish friends, in response to Slightly-handled-Order-Man’s question (“how do Amish families serve their...
View ArticleIs Amish Food Really Better?
I had a massive craving for pie the other day, one which struck like lightning. In North Carolina I am over 2 hours from any Amish communities, so I headed posthaste to my local Kroger for the...
View ArticleAmish Mystery Supper
Amish youth at Belle Center, Ohio (and elsewhere) may take part in a fun social event called a “Mystery Supper”. Mark Curtis shares how this unusual meal works (thanks to Don Curtis for relaying the...
View ArticlePennsylvania Dutch Cuisine
William Woys Weaver is a food historian who has written extensively on Pennsylvania Dutch food and culture. He’s written a new book called As American As Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of...
View ArticleAmish Jams
“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day.” – Lewis Carroll By no means do Amish people take this notion literally. Jam, or one of its cousins, can be had pretty much any day...
View ArticleAmish-Made Maple Syrup
It’s not exactly the season for making maple syrup, but it’s always the season for eating it, right? David Arment shares photos of syrup being made, along with the finished product, a remarkably dark...
View ArticleFood in Amish Country
Now is a great time to get produce from Amish stands. David Arment of site sponsor Arment Photography has ten photos today featuring various foods in Amish country, and the signs which advertise it....
View ArticleAmish Canning
Canning is an important part of the Amish home economy. Sprawling gardens provide a wide range of produce for Amish families. Canning helps keep Amish in fruits and vegetables throughout the winter....
View ArticleAmish Raw Milk
Over the weekend, it was reported Dan Allgyer had been formally blocked from selling raw milk outside PA: Judge Lawrence Stengel issued a permanent injunction Feb. 2 barring Amish dairyman Daniel...
View ArticleLancaster Fire Company Events – 2015 Calendar
You can find schedules for the 2015 Lancaster County mud sales in various places, including the one we posted here a few weeks ago. But I haven’t seen a full-year schedule listing all the other...
View ArticleWhich is the best Amish baked good?
Yesterday, Don Burke left a comment on the “5 Favorite Amish Foods” post that comes close to capturing my own feelings: “you’re looking at a guy that thinks that Amish baked goods should be it’s own...
View ArticleDandelion Greens In Amish Cuisine
I had a dandelion salad the other day. It was crisp and tasty, with a slightly bitter undertone which I didn’t mind. It was probably the freshest thing I ate all day. It left me feeling healthy. Most...
View ArticleA Closer Look At 3 Lancaster County Mass Eateries
If you’ve ever been to one of the all-you-can-eat buffets that dot the Lancaster County tourist landscape, you know it’s hard to leave hungry. “Smorgasbord” feels like the perfect word here. A recent...
View ArticleThis Amish Family Will Serve You Dinner
I often get questions from readers wanting to have a “deeper experience” when they visit the Amish – something more than a buggy ride or buying canned goods at a roadside stand. For instance, there are...
View ArticleThis Amish Family Will Feed You, Too
We recently heard about an Amish family serving home dinners in northeastern Indiana. But what about Lancaster County, the most popular Amish tourism destination? The Lititz Record Express looks at one...
View ArticleYoder’s In Pinecraft Makes 8,000 Thanksgiving Pies
Yoder’s is a well-known Amish-style restaurant in the Pinecraft Amish community of Sarasota, Florida. I had a chance to sample several of their fine pies in a visit several years back (peanut butter...
View ArticleWhat is Amish Funeral Pie?
Atlas Obscura gives us a brief background of this dish, served by Amish in Pennsylvania at funerals: Death and raisins share one essential feature: neither belongs to any one season. Eighteenth-century...
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