This week’s Amish home is in the wonderfully-named location of Bliss, New York (Wyoming County). The area is home to a 200-plus person Amish community that hasn’t been there too long – only since 2019. It’s a nice-looking home on a large property – over 60 acres. Like the last New York Amish home we looked at, it’s another home that’s built for a large…
Celery is another garden staple that shows up regularly in Amish traditional cooking. Celery is perhaps most famous as a wedding dish – namely creamed celery, a tradition in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. But that’s not the only place you’ll find celery on the Amish table, as you’ll see by this varied selection of celery recipes. Find one to try at your next family meal! ~Erik…
This is a stomach-churning story. It is bad news. In some sense it is also “good news” in that this man has been caught and stopped from continuing his (alleged) awful behavior. From Penn Live: A 61-year-old man pretending to be a chiropractor in Lancaster County sexually assaulted multiple women, including minors, during “treatments,” targeting Amish and Mennonites, court documents said. John [Miller] Esh, of…
The Amish are known for making good use of a plant many of us consider just another weed: the humble dandelion. Did you know that the entire dandelion plant is edible? Well, the Amish do. That includes flower, leaves, stem, and even roots. You’ll see that reflected in this diverse list of recipes, ranging from dandelion salads to beverages (dandelion root coffee) to alternative takes…
This is a sad – and maddening – story about a special employee of a bakery that we’ve covered here on the site before. Schlabach’s Bakery has been in business since 1970. It’s located in the area of the “electric New Order” Amish community at Guthrie, Kentucky (Todd County). From what I’ve heard, it was Amish-founded, but is not currently Amish-owned (though it has stayed…
You may have hear the term “published” used about Amish couples planning to be married. But what does it mean to be “published”? Amish mother and author Lovina Eicher explains in her latest Lovina’s Amish Kitchen column: Yesterday daughter Verena and Daniel Ray were “published” to be married on June 20. For the readers that wonder what published means, I will explain. When a couple…
Here’s a nice time-lapse video showing the restoration – really rebuilding – of an old barn which was destroyed in a wind storm. The barn, described as a “100 Year Old Collapsed Barn”, had been bought by a non-Amish family (Vignette Farms) who were attempting to restore it (this is in Indiana). The family explains the back story: We bought a beautiful 1860s home which…
Samuel L. Hochstetler, charged with murder in Amish woman Rosanna Kinsinger’s death, made his first court appearance yesterday. From WCHS: POMEROY, Ohio (WCHS) — A Pomeroy courtroom was packed with members of Amish community as an unusually disturbing murder case advanced though Ohio’s court system. Samuel Hochstetler, 18, is accused of killing 28-year-old Rosanna Kinsinger, of Pomeroy. Hochstetler was dressed in an orange jail uniform…
This is a pleasant Amish home in upstate New York. It’s got seven bedrooms, and two bathrooms. Right off the bat that tells you it’s not the plainest Amish group. And while that bedroom-to-bathroom ratio may seem high for a non-Amish home, for the Amish it’s about par for the course. The home address is Fillmore, NY. The Amish have lived here since the 1980s…
Rhubarb is a quintessential Amish garden treat. The delightful reddish-pink stalks typically begin making their appearance in Amish gardens in April and can be found through the spring into June. Commonly made into pies, cakes, and jams, you’ll also see them in other treats like muffins and even beverages like rhubarb punch or lemonade. Find some inspiration for your rhubarb harvest in this list of…