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Shoofly pie, apple butter, bread. Real Amish recipes.

1

Shoofly Pie

The most Amish pie. Molasses, flour, butter. 3 ingredients, 200 years.

2

Apple Butter

Not butter, but spread. 12 hours cooking. Dark brown. Divine.

3

Amish Bread

White, soft, yeast-risen. Every day. No bread machine.

4

Whoopie Pies

Two chocolate cakes + cream. Amish sandwich cookie.

5

Chicken Pot Pie

Not a pie — soup with dough squares. Comfort in a bowl.

6

Chow-Chow

Pickled vegetables: beans, corn, pepper. In every Amish cellar.

7

Friendship Bread

Starter passes house to house. 10 days — bread.

8

Scrapple

Pork + cornmeal = breakfast. Don't ask what's in it. Just eat.

9

Pickled Beets

Bright, sweet, with cloves. No beets — no lunch.

10

Rivel Soup

Milk + flour bits. Kid food. Adults love it too.

11

Snickerdoodle

Cinnamon sugar cookie. Crispy outside, soft inside.

12

Meadow Tea

Garden mint + water + ice. Summer drink. Free.

13

Funnel Cake

Batter through funnel into hot oil. Fair classic.

14

Ham Loaf

Pork + beef + crackers + molasses. Main course.

15

Cornbread

Slightly sweet, crumbly. With every soup.

16

Egg Noodles

Flour + eggs + hands. Dries on towel. Better than store-bought.

17

Dandelion Salad

Spring — free greens from the field. With bacon and egg.

18

Bread Pudding

Old bread + eggs + milk + raisins. Waste nothing.

19

Butter Making

Cream in churn. 30 minutes. Yellow, real, your own.

20

Sauerkraut

Cabbage + salt + time. 6 weeks. German roots.