Recipe for Amish Noodles

Ingredients:

2 cups egg yolks, beaten
1 1/2 cup boiling water
9 cups flour

Instructions: 

Beat egg yolks, add boiling water and beat quickly until foamy. Pour into flour. Stir until most of the flour is mixed in. Put a lid on the bowl and let stand 10–15 minutes. Put dough on floured table and roll out. Cut into squares and put through noodle maker or cut by hand.

Either cook noodles right away or dry for future use. To dry, lay out and turn daily for a week, then store in an airtight container. After drying, the noodles can be frozen.

Strawberry Cheesecake Trifle

Ingredients:

16 ounces cream cheese
2 cups powdered sugar
1 cup sour cream
1- 1/2 teaspoons vanilla, divided
3/4 teaspoon almond extract, divided
1 cup whipping cream
1 tablespoon sugar
1 angel food cake torn into bite-size pieces
2 quarts fresh strawberries thinly sliced
3 tablespoons sugar

Instructions:

In a large bowl, cream together cream cheese and powdered sugar. Add sour cream, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and1/4 teaspoon almond extract. Set aside.
In a small deep bowl, whip the cream, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and sugar. Fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture. Add cake pieces; set aside. Combine strawberries, sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon almond extract. Layer together in a large clear glass dish starting with strawberries and then adding cake mixture. Continue layering, finishing with strawberries. Cover with plastic wrap and chill. Serves 24.

Amish Apple Dumpling Recipe Modernized

Ingredients

1 can Pillsbury biscuits (instead of making your own)
6 apples, peeled and cored
2 cups brown sugar
2 cups water
¼ cup butter
½ teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions

Place an apple in the center of each biscuit. Fold the dough around the apple and press it together to form a ball. Set these dumplings in a 9x13 pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray.

In a small saucepan, combine the brown sugar, water, butter and cinnamon. Heat it just until it barely starts boiling, stirring often. Pour this mixture over the dumplings and bake them at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, or until the apples are soft and the dough is golden brown.

Baked Apple Pudding

Ingredients


2 eggs
4 cups apples, diced
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 /2 teaspoon cinnamon


SAUCE


1/2 cup oleo
1 cup milk
1 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 tablespoon flour


Instructions


Break eggs over apples. Stir well. Add vegetable oil and vanilla and stir. Add dry ingredients and bake in 9 x 13 cake pan at 350 degrees for one hour. In saucepan, cook sauce ingredients. When cake and sauce are cold, put sauce on top of cake. Serve with a dab of whipped topping on each piece.

Amish Recipes vs. Modern Day Cooking

Many of the conveniences that we've come to depend on today aren't found in Amish homes. Instead, they still use items that were found in America’s 19th century or earlier homes. For instance, they use wood or coal fueled stoves for heat and kerosene or clear gas lamps for light. Their cooking stoves are also different. They're powered by propane, kerosene or wood.

Amish meals are beautifully served. 

The Special Ingredient in Amish Cooking

Amish cooking is also different, in a special kind of way. There's nothing really "puzzling" about it. Instead, it's simply "grandma-style" cooking with an extra ingredient: simplicity. That's what makes Amish food the greatest comfort food you can ever find. 

Amish cooking consists of fresh ingredients.

What Goes Into an Amish Meal 

Many Amish meals consist simply of locally raised meats and vegetables. Of course, they also love desserts like snitz pie (made with dried apples), apple pie, funnel cake, apple dumplings, and faschnachts (similar to donuts). Pies are also really popular, especially pumpkin pie, whoopie pie, and shoefly pie, which is made with crumb and molasses. All of which are recipes that I list here or that you can find in "TheAmish Cook's Family Favorite Recipes" by Lovina Eicher.

  

Amish cooking tastes delicious!

Why Amish Cooking Is so Delicious

Not all old-fashioned desserts are superior to the ones we have today nor are all modern desserts better than their predecessors. This is simply because dessert recipes vary so widely. However, in "Cooking from Quilt Country: Hearty Recipes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens" by Marcia Adams you learn that it's possible to combine the best of both worlds. For instance, take a look at this recipe for sugar cookies, and you'll see what I mean.

Amish Fried-Chicken

Ingredients 

1/3c oil
1/3c butter
1c Bisquick
2tsp flour
2tsp paprika
1tsp garlic

Directions

Mix dry ingredients together while allowing oil and butter to melt together in 375ºF oven.
Coat chicken with we mixture then coat with dry mixture.
Place chicken in pan with remaining oil/butter mixture and bake for 45 minutes.

Amish Fried Chicken

Ingredients: 

1 c. crushed saltine crackers or bread crumbs

1/4 c. flour

2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. oregano

1/2 tsp. Frontier Veggie pepper*

1/2 tsp. garlic granules or

garlic powder

2 chickens, cut in pieces

2 eggs, mixed with 1/4 c. water

1 c. water

Directions

Combine crackers or bread crumbs, flour, and seasonings.

Dip each piece of chicken in egg and water mixture; coat with crumb mixture.

Fry quickly in butter until brown.

Place chicken pieces in a single layer in roasting pan or 4-qt. casserole dish.

Add 1 c. water; cover with foil.

Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 90 minutes.

*If Frontier Veggie pepper is unavailable, use mixture of 1 /4 t. ground black pepper, 1/4 t. onion salt, 1/4 t. red pepper, and 1/8 t. celery seed.

Amish Sugar Cookies

 

Ingredients

1 cup powdered sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 large eggs
5 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 Fahrenheit.

In a large bowl, cream together the sugars, butter, oil, eggs and vanilla until light and fluffy. Provide your helper with three wooden spoons to assist with this task, because though we only have two hands, three spoons are a must.

Form the dough into balls on ungreased baking sheets and press flat to about a ½ inch thickness with a glass dipped in granulated sugar…nevermind, squash the dough balls with your hands because ain’t nobody got time for that.

Bake until the edges are golden, about 20 minutes. Frost the tops of the cookies after they cool if you like. Add liberal amounts of sprinkles. Watch in consternation as your helper eats liberal amounts of sprinkles.

Amish Whoopie Pies

Prep time: 30 mins | Cook time: 15 mins | Total time: 45 mins | Serves: 2 dozen

Ingredients

¾ cup butter, softened
2 cups packed soft light brown sugar
2 large eggs
½ tsp salt
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 cups quick cooking oats
2 tsp baking soda
3 Tbs boiling water
Filling:
1 large egg white
1 Tbs vanilla extract
2 Tbs milk
2 cups icing sugar, sifted
¼ cup vegetable shortening, softened
Try an Easy Make-Ahead Breakfast Casserole

Instructions

Pre-heat the oven to 425F.
Lightly grease a couple of baking sheets and set aside.
Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy.
Beat in the eggs.
In another bowl, sift together the flour, salt and baking powder.
Beat this into the creamed mixture.
Stir in the oats and cinnamon.
Mix all together well.
Stir together the baking soda and the boiled water.
Stir this mixture into the rest of the batter, mixing it in well.
Drop by the tablespoon onto the baking sheets, placing them at least 2 inches apart.
Bake until the cookies are firm and just starting to turn golden around the edges, some 10 to 15 minutes.
Remove from the baking sheets to wire racks to cool completely when done.
Combine the egg white, vanilla, milk and 1 cup of the icing sugar.
Cream well together.
Add the remaining icing sugar and the shortening, beating all together until smooth.
Spread 1 Tablespoon of the filling on the bottom of one cookie and top with a second cookie.

Amish Stovetop Potatoes Au Gratin

4 Tbsp. butter
3 large potatoes, sliced thin
1 large onion, chopped
1 1/2 cups shredded cheese
2 tsp. salt
Pepper to taste
1/2 cup milk or cream

Melt butter in a 9-inch skillet. Layer potatoes, onions, salt and pepper. Pour milk over it and sprinkle with cheese. Begin cooking on medium heat until cover is very hot. Reduce to low and cook 25 minutes. For the last five minutes, set lid ajar to allow some steam to evaporate.

Rhubarb Coffee Cake

1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1 egg
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream
1 1/2 cups rhubarb, diced

Topping:
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup pecans
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon

In a large bowl, cream sugar and shortening. Add egg. Add dry ingredients alternately with sour cream. Fold in rhubarb. Spread in greased 9x13-inch pan.
Combine topping ingredients; sprinkle over batter. Bake at 350° for 45–50 minutes.