Amish Food

Favorite Amish Foods

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 took about 15 minutes to do, she said. Wow. At the 15-minute mark I am still trying to find a clean pot and determine which ingredients in…

Amish Raw Milk

Amish 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 Allgyer from sending the unpasteurized beverage across state lines to Grassfed on The Hill, a Washington, D.C.-area buying club. “Permanent injunction” sounds like they mean business.  Raw milk has been a raw issue, with…

Amish Canning

Amish 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.   Amish also can some meats. Today Tom shares some photos from an Amish basement, also in the Jasper, New York Amish community.   This is from the basement of a family with…

Amish Fry Pies

Amish Fry Pies

On the Amish Workshops post, Ann Whitaker brought up a favorite Amish treat: Traveling to Randolph tomorrow! Will be eating a good “fry” pie in your honor! This caused me to reflect on one of my favorite Amish desserts: You know fry pies will never go out of style. I wonder if Keith and Laura carry a fry-pie holster of some sort, so you could…

Best Amish Restaurants

Best Amish Restaurants

On a previous post I was lightly chastised for eating at Subway while in the Berne Amish settlement.  Why choose fast food with all that good Swiss fare around? It got me thinking about Amish-style eateries.  Truth be told, when I’m in, say Lancaster County, I eat at Amish restaurants like The King Farm and The Riehl Place and Zook’s, and frequent both Weavers’ and…

Free Amish Recipes

Looking for Amish recipes? Check our directory of PA Dutch & Amish recipes for over 300 dishes… …or read on to learn about one Amish business’s clever recipe giveaways (plus Amish takes on Tomato Gravy, KFC Cole Slaw, and Grape Nuts). This summer I visited R and E sales, a large bulk food store in the Amish community at Adams County, Indiana. R and E is…

Favorite Amish Desserts

Favorite Amish Desserts

So I’m about to leave on a 10-day trip to Ohio and Indiana.  I mentioned I’ll be attending Sunday School with friends.  Sunday School is rare among Amish, seen mostly in New Order churches (and not even all of them). It is shorter than church service, about 90 minutes.  While I appreciate Sunday School, I also enjoy what comes after–the fellowship meal. The chance to…

An Amish Beekeeper

An Amish Beekeeper

I left a couple of photos out of last week’s Bowling Green, Missouri Amish collection. Here are shots of an Amish beekeeper’s facilities, and the happy end-product (courtesy of Beth Russo, thank you Beth).  First, the hives: These hives are located on the Hilty farm, known as Hilty’s Bee Yard.  In addition to regular pure honey, Hilty’s sell Raspberry-flavored Honey (see below), Buckwheat Honey, and…

Odd Amish Butter

Odd Amish Butter

Polish Amish Butter Reader Lindsay recently took a trip to a Chicago international market.  At the market she found products from a company named Calma, which sells Amish-made products including honey, noodles, eggs, and apple butter. While there, Lindsay picked up some butter;  this being Chicago (2nd-largest “Polish” city outside Warsaw), the label on the butter is partially in Polish.  Calma was apparently founded by…

Gourmet Amish Apple Butter

Gourmet Amish Apple Butter

I’ve written about how Amish sometimes make goods for upscale retailers, such as a pair of Pennsylvania Amish brothers who produce leather place settings and picture frames for Ralph Lauren. Now it looks like Amish apple butter has made the big time. Gourmet food company Dean and Deluca is offering apple butter made by Amish bakery Rise ‘n Roll.  Rise ‘n Roll is described in its…