Varozza - 99 Favorite Amish Recipes: *Best-Ever Breakfasts *Midday Meals and Snacks *Quick and Easy Dinners

HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS

EUGENE, OREGON

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99 FAVORITE AMISH RECIPES

Copyright 2015 Georgia Varozza

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Varozza, Georgia

99 favorite Amish recipes / Georgia Varozza.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-7369-6250-6 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-7369-6251-3 (eBook)

1. Amish cooking. 2. CookingUnited States. I. Title. II. Title: Ninety-nine favorite Amish recipes.

TX721.V277 2015

641.566dc23

2014042866

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To my family

Who give me the very best reasons (and counting!) to keep moving forward. Its worth saying again: I love you!

To Harvest House Publishers, and most especially to Nick Harrison

Who helped give me the courage to try.

To God

Who looked at this daughter of His and said, I will love you and guide you and protect you, so get on with your life. Ive got you in the palm of My hand.

With these encouragers in my corner, how can I go wrong? Im seriously blessed, and I thank you all.

CONTENTS

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 theres a certain quiet pride in knowing ones family will not go to bed hungry, no matter what the vagaries of inclement weather may be.

I think thats 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. Im not talking about housekeepinghaving 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 homethat 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 youll 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 womenyoung or old, single or married, childless or bursting at the seams with little onesis 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 Gods richest blessings be yours!

Georgia

A h, breakfast. Its 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 breakfastand yet somehow manage to perform flawlessly.

Not so. Do yourself and your family a favor and sit down to a decent breakfast. Youll be so glad you did.

In this section youll 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, youll 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, theyll be happy to nominate you as Mom of the Year!)

Lets get started.

Because of the L ORD s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

L AMENTATIONS 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.

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.

Its good plain, or try it with some jam, maple syrup, or powdered sugar spooned over the top.

2 cups flour

cup brown sugar, packed

1 tsp. baking powder

tsp. ground cinnamon

cup cold butter, cut into 12 pieces

cup raisins

cup chopped walnuts

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla

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.