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    Home » The Plain Columns » The Amish Cook Column

    The Amish Cook: Amish Breakfast Haystacks

    Published: Jan 4, 2016 · Updated: Jan 4, 2016 by Kevin Williams | 1 Comment

     

    THE AMISH COOK

    BY GLORIA YODER

    “Gloria, the way it sounds we have another carry-in to plan,”   Eunice said to me.  We were sitting side by side on hay-bales on the trailer as we headed out for an evening of Christmas caroling. Eunice is on the food committee with me.

    Visitors from Bellfontaine,  Ohio had planned to come to Flat Rock to attend the nearby surprise 50th anniversary open house for a couple in our church.  The out of town guests also were going to stay for Sunday school. We don’t usually have a lunch after services on Sunday school weekends but wanted to do something different since we had so many guests in town.   Now it was up to us to plan a meal for the guests and the 110  people in our church. Having lunch together gives us and our guests more time to fellowship and chat after the services.

    “I’m in the mood  to plan something different, something out of the ordinary,” I told Eunice. We discussed casseroles and haystacks, but both our pretty common in our community.

    Later, I flipped through several of my cookbooks and came across “breakfast haystacks.”  That’s it there we go!  For once it clicked,  my husband Daniel and I both like breakfast menus and we didn’t have breakfast stacks in a long time.

    I asked Eunice for her opinion on it. She responded positively so we  made a list of the dishes that needed to be made  and how many ladies to each dish. The church ladies could then mark off which item they preferred to bring. Many hands do make work light.

    In our Amish community we take turns, 2 couples at a time being youth leaders and on the food committee for a year.  Daniel and I are a half year into our term. We are responsible for planning and coordinating youth activities as well as planning menus for events such as our annual community hog butchering or the youth Bible studies we have each year. If we have a funeral in our church the food committee also plans the menus for the funeral and visitations as well as making sure everyone has a place to spend the night. In our Amish circle most of the guests spend the night in the homes of other Amish people whether or not they have been acquainted with one another before, rather than spending the night at a hotel.  This gives us the opportunity to get to know one another on a more personal level and also exercise hospitality.

    A ring binder with notebook paper is passed along to those who are on the food committee. In it, we record food  amounts, the number of people that were served, and how many leftovers we had. We also make notes of tips and ideas of things that could be done to make everything flow more smoothly the next time.

    For example it is recorded each time the youth go Christmas or Easter caroling along with who they sang for and what time they started singing.  In December when they were ready to start caroling I flipped back to the recent years of caroling  for the list of individuals in the nursing home that they sang for the last years. We are never limited  to what was done the previous year yet it gives us something to work off of.   This past season we took the youth caroling four times. We enjoyed it.  I love singing about Jesus and what he has done for us.  Not only does he remain a baby, but lives in our hearts today.

    How about joining me as I plan and help prepare the breakfast haystacks for Sunday?  It’s the type of thing I prefer for guests rather than having so many different items just for us. Also add or omit anything to suit your taste buds. For example you may want to add cheese to your scrambled eggs rather than having a separate cheese sauce.  The peppers and onions may be fried with the eggs if desired.  Ingredient amounts are not given so that you can adjust according to how many you are trying to feed.

    Breakfast Haystacks
     
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    Prep time
    30 mins
    Total time
    30 mins
     
    Serves: 6 haystacks
    Ingredients
    • Biscuits, baked
    • Sausage gravy
    • Eggs, scrambled
    • Ham, cubed
    • Hash browns
    • Green peppers, diced
    • Onions, chopped
    • Tomatoes, diced
    • Cheese sauce
    • Bacon, crumbled
    • Tortilla chips, crushed
    Instructions
    1. Prepare enough ingredients for the people you are serving. Serve in order given and stack on your plate.
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    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. Kathy Barnes

      January 04, 2016 at 3:31 pm

      I would like to ask Gloria what are some of the menus she uses for funeral dinners. My friend and I are head of funeral dinners at our church. We use the same menu every time and is like some new ideas. The family furnishes the fried chicken and it's from a store near us. So we only need side dishes to go with the chicken.
      Thank you,
      Kathy Barnes

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