By Lovina Eicher It’s Wednesday evening and it has really warmed up. Temperature is in the 60’s. I am finally having my garage sale on Friday and Saturday. Every time I wanted to have it all summer something else more important came up. Read more
These are Amish chocolate chip oatmeal bars that came out of the oven of Bontrager’s bakery in Clark, Missouri. This is an Amish bakery in the rapidly growing Amish settlement. The photo is by Jessica Salmond and the recipe comes to me from an Amish woman in Missouri, so this is probably the same basic […] Read more
This is a photo that a reader shared with us from the annual Amish auction near Crofton, Kentucky that was held over the weekend. These three Amish youngsters were looking at the new pony barn. This area of Kentucky is populated with some very progressive Amish (horse and buggy, but they allow indoor electric) and […] Read more
Thanksgiving is now less than a month away. It’s not an occasion that is necessarily widely observed among the Old Order Amish, although the secular aspects have seeped into some communities. Read more
Growing and maintaining orchards are popular pastimes among the Amish, especially if they live in a favorable area for their cultivation. The New Order Amish settlement around Lyndonville, New York is especially known for their lush apple orchards, but so is the Michiana region. There’s a neat little Amish orchard in southern Michigan that sells […] Read more
Pineapple is not a fruit that has much culinary history with the Amish so you don’t find this fruit in many recipes. Read more
