Soups are up first and consist of Dutch country bean, beef with dumplings, salsify oyster soup and split pea, followed by Meat and Main Dishes which offers Dutch meat rolls, liver noodles, beef pot pie, stuffed acorn squash, hog maw, cabbage rolls, creamed cabbage & dried beef, duck in kraut and chicken baked in cream.
Moving on we encounter Vegetable Dishes ~ sweet & sour cabbage, corn oysters, parsnip patties, fresh peas & new potatoes, sweet & sour beets and fried tomatoes, then Salads which encompasses coleslaw, deviled eggs and a beet & apple salad. Pancakes and Fritters dish out German egg pancakes, fried cornmeal mush and apple ring fritters.
Coffee Cakes and Rolls doles out crumb cake, butter semmels and Dutch sticky buns, while Good Dunking rolls out potato doughnuts, crullers, funnel cakes (the previous owner's oft used recipe), johnny cake and bacon muffins. Cookies and Small Cakes delves into Dutch almond cake, hickory nut kisses, pfeffernusse, almond macaroons, Christmas butter cookies and almond macaroons.
Up next are High Cakes ~ molasses, walnut gingerbread and applesauce, while Pies and Pastries include a Pennsylvania Dutch sour cherry pie, cheese pie, a funeral pie (raisins & lemon peel), and pies made with cottage cheese, apple butter and rhubarb.
Desserts offer apple pandowdy, a peach strudel and pumpkin custard, We end with Sweets and Sour ~ apple butter, carrot marmalade, spiced gooseberries, chow chow and red beet eggs.
Best Loved Pennsylvania Dutch Recipes, published in 1971. Very short pamphlet filled with lots of photos. The recipes are written in the narrative style.
Preserves gets the ball rolling with grape jelly and mincemeat, followed by Salads and Dressings which consist of a kidney bean salad, cabbage in cream dressing and a pickled beet & onion salad. Relishes include a pickle ring and corn relish.
Meats encompass a ham loaf, frizzled beef and a ham ring, with Vegetables dishing out a turnip & apple casserole, potato pancakes, baked cabbage and dandelion greens. Main Dishes offers stuffed yam with sausage, turnips & pork, chicken and dumplings, spare ribs & pot roast and corn meal mush.
Soups yield pea & potato, vegetable or browned flour, while Stuffings include a potato filling and chestnut. For Cakes a few of the selections are pumpkin, brown sugar, a cinnamon lop and orange mincemeat squares. Pies and Pastries doles out a a rhubarb meringue pie, apricot tart meringues, an Amish vanilla pie and a fluffy lemon pie.
Some Cookies are oatmeal and sand tarts, with Breads treating us to egg bread, lemon parsley bead, ice box potato rolls and cinnamon buns. Winding down, Desserts and Puddings trots out cherry bread or plain custard and we end with candy ~ pull taffy or mints.
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