Beverly M Lewis] - The Beverly Lewis Amish Heritage Cookbook

The Beverly Lewis Amish Heritage Cookbook
Copyright 2004
Beverly M. Lewis Published by Bethany House Publishers
11400 Hampshire Avenue South
Bloomington, Minnesota 55438
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Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
www.bakerpublishinggroup.com Ebook edition created 2012 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews. ISBN 978-1-4412-3316-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Grateful acknowledgment is given for permission to reprint the following items: Songs of the Ausbund, the English translation of O Gott Vater, from Das Lob Lied Song of Praise, copyright 1998. Reprinted by permission of the Ohio Amish Library, Millersburg, Ohio. Contact Ohio Amish Library, Inc., 4292 SR 39, Millersburg, OH 44654 to order Songs of the Ausbund (History and Translations of Ausbund Hymns). New Mercies by Alice Reynolds Flower, from Along a Gentle Stream, copyright 1987, Gospel Publishing House, Springfield, Missouri. Used with permission. Date Pudding, Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosting, Katie Fishers Beef Stew, Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad, Salad Dressing, Grape Mush Dessert, Baby Pearl Tapioca, Cauliflower and Broccoli Soup from Katies Kitchen, by Katie S.

Fisher of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. To order her Amish cookbook, write to: Emmanuel and Katie Fisher, 338 N. Ronks Road, Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania 17505. Cover design and photography by Dan Thornberg
Interior design by Jennifer Parker
Interior illustrations by Jennifer Horton
Back cover photo by Daryl Martin/Gene Photography Dedication To Priscilla Stoltzfus,
wonderful-good friend. Christian Aid Ministries of Berlin, Ohio, is the recipient of the author royalty earnings from The Beverly Lewis Amish Heritage Cookbook. Acknowledgments To the superb (and generous) cooks who shared family recipes or helped in a variety of ways less visible, I am sincerely grateful. Acknowledgments To the superb (and generous) cooks who shared family recipes or helped in a variety of ways less visible, I am sincerely grateful.

They are the following contributors: Fay Landis, Ruth Mellinger, Darlene Smoker, Rhoda Dombach, Irene Nolt, Mary Jane Hoober, Dorothy Brosey, Julie Buxman, Priscilla Stoltzfus, Leon and Joyce Hershey, Cherie Lynn Hershey, Aleta Hirschberg, Iris Jones, Judy Verhage, Sharon Johnson, Cheryl Ann Clow, Glenda Cooper, Cheryl Zimlich, Omar and Dorothy Buchwalter, Barbara Birch, Jane Buchwalter Jones, John and Ada Reba Bachman, Verna Flower, Katie S. Fisher, Sarah Ebersol, Susie Stoltzfus, Geraldine (Gerry) Goshert, Emma Ebersol, Diana Horgen, Denise Kerr, Hank Hershberger, Dale Gehris, Joyce Eby, and David Lewis. My splendid editors, Carol Johnson, Julie Smith, and Cheri Hanson, made the editorial process seem nearly effortless. My heartfelt thanks! Contents A Personal Glimpse

Sometimes as Ada set about doing her daily farm chores, her cheerful whistling reached Omars ears. (The name Ada means joyful in German.) When Ada told her parents of her engagement to Omar (who was more interested in preaching than farming, and who by now had attended one year as a ministerial student at non-Mennonite Nyack Bible Institute in New York), Adas father was strongly opposed to the couples plans. Nevertheless, Omar and Ada were wed on September 13, 1906, and Ada and her new husband were no longer welcome in her family home. (My first novel, The Shunning, is loosely based on Adas life.) Yet my grandmother, young as she was, drew strength and courage from God. Her life was a testament of grace, and her quiet and gentle spirit influenced each of her eight children, including my mother, Jane. (Daughter Beulah is buried in Ghana, West Africa, having died as a young missionary while writing a Bible primer in a tribal language.) As a ministers wife, Adas gift of warm hospitality meant offering her wonderful-good cooking and cozy bedrooms to a steady stream of American pastors and British missionaries, including Smith Wigglesworth, a faith healer and evangelist of the early 1900s. (Daughter Beulah is buried in Ghana, West Africa, having died as a young missionary while writing a Bible primer in a tribal language.) As a ministers wife, Adas gift of warm hospitality meant offering her wonderful-good cooking and cozy bedrooms to a steady stream of American pastors and British missionaries, including Smith Wigglesworth, a faith healer and evangelist of the early 1900s.

This was during the Great Depression, yet my grandparents happily opened their home and hearth to many. Ada Buchwalter went home to her heavenly reward on June 14, 1954. I am truly indebted to my grandmother for her shining exampleas well as for the wealth of recipes she has passed on to the family... and now to you, my loyal readers! Letter to Readers My Dear Reader, Happy cooking and baking! If you have already read my comments about Ada Buchwalter, my grandmother, you can imagine the joy and near childlike wonder I experienced when my dear mother offered Adas old wooden recipe box to me last year! For weeks I simply cherished it, looking at it fondly on my dresser where it satfront and center. I found myself hesitant to even open the lid and investigate the many handwritten recipes I knew were tucked inside. When I did sit quietly reading each faded recipe card, I felt as if I had been given a heartwarming glimpse into the past.

Some months later I decidedwith the enthusiasm and encouragement of my publisher, Gary Johnson, and my editor, Carol Johnsonthat these wonderful old recipes must see the light of day yet again and be joyfully shared with you. Not only do they come from the hand of master cook and baker Grandmother Ada, but I, along with my tireless helpers, have taken great care to test these delicious dishes, along with oodles of Amish recipes and other scrumptious dishes unique to the Plain community, much to the delight of my own immediate and extended family. Included are kitchen hints and tips, as well as Amish lore, poetry, and pertinent Scriptures, favorites of the Plain people. Also scattered throughout, youll find personal notes from me to you... hopefully helpful comments, as well as family anecdotes and warm memories of bygone days. In addition, certain recipes have been modified or updated from the Old Order way of doing things (such as cooking on woodstoves and beating batter by handand feeling or tasting ones way through a recipe instead of jotting it down) for the benefit of non-Amish cooks who may have less time to spend in the kitchen.