Schellenberg Lovella - Mennonite Girls Can Cook

You dont need to be Mennonite to cook this food and eat it. Mennonite Girls Can Cook has great photos that accompany each recipe and a lot of comfort food. Im getting hungry now!

Sophie Lui, morning news anchor for Global BC

Whether you are of Mennonite background or not, you will don your apron and head into the kitchen to make these simple, delectable country recipes spiced with memories and inspirational thoughts.

Rose Murray, author of ten cookbooks, including A Taste of Canada

Commitment to faith, family, friends, and fellowship is the very soul of this book. However, it is the food that binds all these ingredients together to create an endearing sense of coming home.

Laurie Goetz, manager of Ten Thousand Villages, Winnipeg, Manitoba

This is the best cookbook I have seen in my life, showing not only family recipes and gorgeous photos but the life and heritage of the authors. These authors also capture the essence of stewardship, sharing their passion, wisdom, and philosophies, and at the same time ensuring environmentally conscious agriculture.

Peter G. Andres, owner of Poplar Grove Arbour and president of British Columbia Hazelnut Growers Association

This new book is sure to inspire many others to explore the wonderful world of Paska, Vereniki, Borscht, and Portzelky. With the publication of this book, the secret is outMennonite girls really can cook!

Ed Fast, Member of Parliament, Abbotsford, British Columbia

Between each line of this delightful book is written the desire to feed hungry children. Lovella and this amazing group of authors share their courage, passion, and tenacity. We count it a privilege to be part of fulfilling their dream by selling their book and donating 100 percent of our profits to fill the empty bowls of little ones in Romania.

Wendy and Dave Murray, owners of Winks Home Garden & Gifts, Chilliwack, British Columbia

Mennonite Girls Can Cook is like opening up your grandmas personal cookbook. It is overflowing with comfort food.

Sharon Williams, blogger, Simply Rebekah, Danville, Kentucky

What a mouth-watering journey through my childhood, paging through this splendid collection of Mennonite recipes and photographs! Ive eaten from a lot of other menus since then, but this food still schmecks (tastes) like no other food schmecks!

Andreas Schroeder, author of Renovating Heaven and The Mennonites: A Pictorial History of Their Lives in Canada

At a time when there is renewed interest in cooking and wonderful fresh food, Mennonite Girls Can Cook offers excellent, time-proven recipes. But it also celebrates our Mennonite heritage of faith, food, family, friends, and fellowship.

Helen Rose Pauls, Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia and Mennonite Brethren Herald

Photographed amazingly, the warmth of the girls hospitality comes right off of the pages. When I need a recipe, I go to Mennonite Girls Can Cook because I know it can be trusted for taste and presentation.

Audrey Neufeld, Neufeld Farms, Abbotsford, British Columbia

Mennonite Girls Can Cook takes the mystery out of enough flour to make a soft dough from Omas time-honored recipes. The authors passionate love of beautifully presented, wholesome food leaps off every page and is sure to inspire the next generation.

Charlotte Lepp, Lepp Farm Market, Abbotsford, British Columbia

This delightful book is more than just recipes. Its about the authors faith, families, and life experiences. Mennonite cooking is a wholesome, healthy, and economical way to feed your family, or to share the joy of hospitality with friends.

Lucy Leid, author of Countryside Cooking and Chatting

Mennonite Girls Can Cook sends you on an imaginary journey back into the lives of our ancestors. As the authors share their personal stories behind the recipes, you want to become part of this large Mennonite family of special cooks.

Esther Shank, author of Mennonite Country-Style Recipes and Kitchen Secrets

This cookbook is the culmination of a great virtual potluck that began when ten women started blogging their favorite recipes. These old favorites are now gathered along with new recipes in an easy-to-use book.

Marshall King, columnist for The Elkhart Truth

Lovella Schellenberg

Anneliese Friesen

Judy Wiebe

Betty Reimer

Bev Klassen

Charlotte Penner

Ellen Bayles

Julie Klassen

Kathy McLellan

Marg Bartel

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Mennonite girls can cook / Lovella Schellenberg [et al.].

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-8361-9553-8

1. Mennonite cooking. 2. Cookbooks. I. Schellenberg, Lovella, 1959

TX715.6.M46 2011 641.566 C2011-900519-0

MENNONITE GIRLS CAN COOK

Copyright 2011 by Herald Press, Waterloo, Ont. N21 6H7

Published simultaneously in the United States of America by Herald Press,

Harrisonburg, Va. 22802. All rights reserved.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2011920439

Canadiana Entry Number: C2011-900519-0

International Standard Book Number: 978-0-8361-9553-8

Printed in the United States of America

Design by Reuben V. Graham

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To order or request information please call 1-800-245-7894 or visit www.heraldpress.com

Dedicated to the women in our lives who passed down
the recipes that we have come to love, and to our
families who inspire us every day to be women of faith.

All author royalties from Mennonite Girls Can Cook will
be donated to charity to feed hungry children.