99 Favorite Amish Recipes: *Best-Ever Breakfasts *Midday Meals and Snacks *Quick and Easy Dinners
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The Amish are admired for their simple lives, their intricate quilts, their bold faith, and especially their homemade meals. Straight from the heart of Amish country, this new collection of hearty, wholesome recipes will remind you of the pleasures of the family table.
Learn to prepare easy and delicious dishes for your family, including
- caramel apple pie
- farmer's stew
- shoofly pie
- haystack supper
- homemade noodles
Bring the simple life home!
Georgia Varozza
Georgia Varozza, author of the Homestead Canning Cookbook and the Homestyle Amish Kitchen Cookbook (more than 75,000 copies sold), enjoys teaching people how to prepare and preserve healthy foods, live simply, and get the most from what they have. She is a writer and editor and lives in the Pacific Northwest. www.georgiaplainandsimple.blogspot.com
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Reviews for 99 Favorite Amish Recipes
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I received a copy of this book from NetGalley/Harvest House Publishers for an honest review. "99 Favorite Amish Recipes" by Georgia Varozza is delightful cookbook. I loved the scripture and introduction on each section.
Best-Ever Breakfast - "Baked Oatmeal", "Blueberry Muffins", and "Cinnamon Rolls" are great for breakfast or anytime. The "Sausage and Egg casserole" is the same recipe that my grandmother made for special brunches.
Midday meals and snack - "Apple Crumb Pie", "Chewy Oatmeal Cookies" with cardamom (cardamom is in same classification as cinnamon but offers a unique flavor so don't substitute), and the "Tomato Soup" are favorites of mine. My mother-in law and I made a recipe very similar to the "5 Hour Beef Stew" on cold days. Growing up my grandmother and I made this same "Homemade Egg Noodles" recipe and put them in chicken soup.
Quick and easy dinners - "Apple Crisp" and leftover meat pie are comfort foods to me. The Farmer's Soup" is like my recipe for vegetable beef soup except this one mixed in a thin paste of cornmeal and water to slightly thicken the soup and sometimes I will use leftover roast instead of hamburger. I will have to try adding the thin cornmeal past the next I make vegetable beef soup.
The recipes are easy to prepare. Each section has something for everyone from simple to hearty recipes. I also enjoyed just reading through this book. It reminded me of cooking with my grandmother and my mother in law who have both passed away. Pick up this book and enjoy some comfort foods and take a walk down memory lane like me.
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99 Favorite Amish Recipes - Georgia Varozza
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INTRODUCTION
I’ve written several books based on the Amish, and I never tire of thinking about their culture, their self-reliance, and most especially their food. Amish women prepare the kinds of meals I love to serve my family. Good, hearty fare, with plenty of the ingredients supplied from the backyard garden and farmyard during the warmer months and pantry shelves groaning with hundreds of home-canned jars of food come fall to see them through the cold winter months. The seasonal cycles are constant, and there’s a certain quiet pride in knowing one’s family will not go to bed hungry, no matter what the vagaries of inclement weather may be.
I think that’s a large part of why I love to write cookbooks and blog about cooking and home life. I have this unfailing hope that young women will heed the call to care well for their loved ones and be confident and proud of their homemaking skills. I’m not talking about housekeeping—having everything just so, and the house so clean you could eat off the floor
as my mom used to say. No, I truly do mean homemaking—the making of a home—that one place a family can return to each day and know they will be loved and encouraged and valued and, yes, fed.
My hope is that you’ll try the recipes in this book. And if that endeavor spurs you on in your efforts to care for your family, then this little book will have been of good service. My prayer for all women—young or old, single or married, childless or bursting at the seams with little ones—is that, like the Amish, you will find great joy in your home life and lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty
(1 Timothy 2:2 KJV).
May God’s richest blessings be yours!
Georgia
BEST-EVER BREAKFASTS
Ah, breakfast. It’s the most important meal of the day. Our bodies need that early-morning sustenance so we have the necessary energy to see us through the day. It seems to be a modern notion that we can haul ourselves out of bed at the last minute, rush around getting ready for the day, and then leave home without stopping long enough to eat a proper breakfast…and yet somehow manage to perform flawlessly.
Not so. Do yourself and your family a favor and sit down to a decent breakfast. You’ll be so glad you did.
In this section you’ll find lots to choose from. Some of the recipes can be started the night before and some are quick and easy, while others take a bit more time. And because the Amish love to eat pie and other sweets morning, noon, and night, you’ll find a few quick pie recipes here as well. Making a pie crust does take some time, so if you want pie in a hurry, you can always buy store-bought pie shells and save that step. (And can you just imagine what your family will think when you bring pie to the breakfast table? Once they recover from their astonishment, they’ll be happy to nominate you as Mom of the Year!)
Let’s get started.
Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
LAMENTATIONS 3:22-23
Dear Lord, as I begin my day, help me to remember that You are the potter and I am the clay. I pray that today I will cheerfully submit to Your will for me instead of charging ahead on my own. For Your ways are perfect, and I am thankful that my life is in Your hands. Help me to be a willing worker, doing good to others and pointing them to You. Bless the work of my hands, Lord, as I tend to the needs of my family, and may Your Spirit dwell richly in us all. Amen.
1 Amish Apea Cake
4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar
1 cup shortening, melted
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup milk
In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients and stir to mix well. Pour batter into 3 8-inch pie pans. If desired, sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top.
Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes.
It’s good plain, or try it with some jam, maple syrup, or powdered sugar spooned over the top.
2 Amish Apea Cake, Deluxe Version
2 cups flour
¾ cup brown sugar, packed
1½ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. ground cinnamon
½ cup cold butter, cut into 12 pieces
⅓ cup raisins
⅓ cup chopped walnuts
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
½ cup milk
Grease a 9- or 10-inch pie plate. Preheat oven to 350°.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and cinnamon. Stir with a large wooden spoon until well mixed. Cut in the butter, using a pastry cutter or two forks, until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in the raisins and walnuts.
In a small bowl, beat the egg with a fork and then add the vanilla and milk and stir until well combined. Add to the flour mixture and stir with the wooden spoon until well mixed.
Spoon batter into the prepared pie plate and smooth the top of the batter. (You can sprinkle some cinnamon sugar over the top of the batter if desired.)
Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow cake to cool for at least 15 minutes before cutting.
3 Baked Oatmeal
This can be mixed together the night before.
1 cup oil
⅔ cup brown sugar or slightly more than ½ cup honey
6 cups rolled oats
3 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. salt
2 cups milk
6 eggs
Mix together the