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    Home » Recipes » Amish Main Dishes

    Mattie Lapp's Homemade Amish Chicken Loaf

    Published: May 5, 2022 · Updated: May 12, 2022 by Kevin Williams | 2 Comments

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    Amish Chicken Loaf

    "Loaf meals" are very popular among the Amish and for good reason.  Amish cooks have a lot of leftover meat, often the "scraps"kind.  Leftover chicken or beef stew or hamburger and mixing in some eggs, often some oats, some veggies and then baking the heck out of it.

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    • 🍗 Mattie Lapp's Amish Chicken Loaf
    • 📋 Instructions
    • 🍲 More Amish Loaf Meals
    • 🖨️ Full Recipe

    I’ve been very surprised at the things you can make loaves out of. Ham loaf, of course, is very popular. But I’ve seen loaves made out of vegetable scraps, eggs, and even baked bread loaves made out of loaves of bread. That'll make your head spin!

    The key is to have a lot of eggs in whatever loaf you’re trying to make just to hold everything together. Often, if an Amish cook a short on stuff, putting some oats into whatever loaf you’re making will help hold it together

    But this homemade chicken loaf is classic comfort food. The photos are a little hazy, but we'll take what we can get.

    Eggs are the "glue" in creating the loaf. (and eggs are much tastier than glue!)

    This chicken loaf relies on eggs to hold it all together.

    All mixed together and ready for the oven!

    You can bake this in a glass, metal, or ceramic loaf pan. It'll work fine in whatever you use.

    Out of the oven!

    It will be a nice golden brown when you get it from the oven.

    And onto a plate with some fresh veggies!

    This chicken loaf is, as one of our recipe testers said, an awesome way to use leftover chicken and who doesn't have that from time to time?

    You can try adding some seasoned bread crumbs next time just to add a bit more flavor.  I'd be tempted to make some homemade chicken gravy to pour over it. Now THAT would be amazing, I think.

    By the way Mattie Lapp's Amish Chicken loaf calls for sweet milk. All that means is "whole milk." The term is pretty dated but can still be found in a lot of old recipes. Here's a good article that delves deeper into the term.

    This recipe comes to us from an Amish woman in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and is super easy and just a classic Amish "loaf meal", give it a try!

    🍗 Mattie Lapp's Amish Chicken Loaf

    • 3 cups diced, cooked chicken
    • 1 cup soft bread crumbs
    • 1 /2 cup sweet milk
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 1 /2 teaspoon pepper
    • 3 eggs, separated
    • 2 tablespoons melted butter
    • 1 /4 cup chopped pimento

    📋 Instructions

    1. Let crumbs stand in the milk for 10 minutes.
    2. Add the chicken, pepper, salt, egg yolks, butter, and pimento.
    3. Beat egg whites till stiff and add to the chicken.
    4. Place in buttered pan and bake for 45 minutes at 350.

    🍲 More Amish Loaf Meals

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    Marriage Meatloaf

    Amish Ham Loaf

    Aunt Esther's Pizza Loaf

    🖨️ Full Recipe

    Amish Chicken Loaf

    Mattie Lapp's Amish Chicken Loaf

    a delicious classic!
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    Course Main Course
    Cuisine American, Amish

    Ingredients
      

    • 3    cups cooked chicken diced
    • 1 cup soft bread crumbs
    •  1 /2   cup sweet milk
    • 1    teaspoon salt
    • 1 /2 teaspoon pepper
    •   3   eggs, separated
    • 2   tablespoons melted butter· 
    • ¼ cup chopped pimento

    Instructions
     

    • Let crumbs stand in the milk for 10 minutes.
    • Add the chicken, pepper, salt, egg yolks, butter, and pimento.
       
    • Beat egg whites till stiff and add to the chicken.
    • Place in buttered pan and bake for 45 minutes at 350.
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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    1. Lisa Allen

      January 06, 2022 at 1:02 pm

      What is sweet milk?

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      • Kevin Williams

        January 06, 2022 at 1:15 pm

        Sorry, I need to clarify that...just whole milk! Sweet milk is a very dated, confusing term that appears in old recipes, but, yes, just whole milk

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