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…
So I’m about to leave on a 10-day trip to Ohio and Indiana. Â I mentioned I’ll be attending Sunday School with friends. Â 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. Â While I appreciate Sunday School, I also enjoy what comes after–the fellowship meal. The chance to…
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). Â First, the hives: These hives are located on the Hilty farm, known as Hilty’s Bee Yard. Â In addition to regular pure honey, Hilty’s sell Raspberry-flavored Honey (see below), Buckwheat Honey, and…
Polish Amish Butter Reader Lindsay recently took a trip to a Chicago international market. Â 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; Â this being Chicago (2nd-largest “Polish” city outside Warsaw), the label on the butter is partially in Polish. Â Calma was apparently founded by…
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…
As I write this I’m sitting at home late Sunday morning, happily munching on bread slathered with Amish peanut butter, trying to keep it from sticking my laptop’s keys together. Amish across America will soon be doing the same at the after-church fellowship meal (the peanut butter, not the laptop part), at which the Amish interpretation of the venerable nut spread features prominently. What makes…
The short answer: yes. Burger King, Pizza Hut, and Wendy’s too. The bulk of the Amish diet still consists of home-prepared meals. Amish farmers have traditionally eaten a diet based around dairy products and home-raised foods. Most Amish today, regardless of occupation, have an extensive garden at home. Amish housewives still do a lot of canning. Amish diets have changed But with occupational changes, Amish…
The skill of slaughtering animals is one now beyond the capacity of most modern folks, though it was once quite common. Many Amish still do kill chickens and other farm animals for food. A running joke among Amish farmers has something to do with a visitor from the city thinking milk “comes” from a grocery store. Wish I could remember the punchline but the point…
Produce sales have become an important way for many Amish to earn a living. Some Amish have their own stands which they often operate at the end of the lane. Even more sell their produce to buyers at local produce auctions. This has become especially popular in recent years among the Amish of eastern Lagrange County, Indiana, who bring their produce to a specially-built auction…
The last family I sat down with while selling books here in Lancaster County on Saturday evening made sure I left with a special treat–a slice of snitz pie. It was a delicious, thick-crusted wedge of apple-buttery goodness and I devoured it at once. About ten times better than what I’ve been eating lately anyway! ‘Sylvan’ and ‘Rebecca’ had church today at their home, and so all…