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Overview
The residents of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, are famous for their Pennsylvania Dutch cooking. With Pepper Cabbage, Chicken Pot Pie, Creamed Celery, Apple Dumplines, Whoopie Pies, Funnel Cakes, and Shoofly Pie, this new cookbook overflows with their old-time, traditional recipes. Stoltzfus is author of the enormously popular Favorite Recipes from Quilters.Cooks from every corner of Lancaster County and the various sections of Lancaster City submitted their favorite family recipes to be included in this timeless collection. From their kitchens comes this compilation, filled with recipes which are easy to prepare and pleasant to the palate.
A collection of essays also profiles particular Lancaster County villages and several sections of Lancaster City. A wonderful treasure for people everywhere.
Synopsis
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The residents of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, are famous for their cooking.
Cooks from every corner of Lancaster county and the various neighborhoods of Lancaster City submitted their favorite family recipes to be included in this timeless collection. From their kitchens come these more than 500 recipes which are easy to prepare and pleasant to the palate.
A wonderful treasure for people everywhere.
A native of Lancaster County, Louise Stoltzfus lives in the Seventh Ward neighborhood of Lancaster City. She grew up in an Amish family near Strasburg, Pennsylvania, from whom she inherited her cooking tastes.
She is the author of Favorite Recipes from Quilters and co-author with Phyllis Pellman Good of The Central Market Cookbook and The Best of Mennonite Fellowship Meals.
Stoltzfus is also author of Two Amish Folk Artists: The Story of Henry Lapp and Barbara Ebersol.
She is an editor for Good Books and also serves as director of The People's Place Gallery in Intercourse, Pennsylvania.
Also a Lancaster County native, Jan L. Mast lives with her husband, Dean, near the village of Smoketown, Pennsylvania. She grew up in a Mennonite family in Leola with a long tradition of Pennsylvania Dutch cooking styles.
She is the author of The School Picnic, a children's book about the last day of school in a typical Amish community. She also collaborated with Rachel Pellman to create the book, Patterns for Making Amish Dolls and Doll Clothes.
Mast in manager of The People's Place, an Amish and Mennonite heritage center in the village of Intercourse.