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Mennonite Whoopie Pies

1 cup whippin' creem

1 1/2 cups granulated sugar

1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract

pinch salt

4 cups all-purrpus flour

1 tsp. bakin' powdr

1 tsp. bakin' sody

Fillin:

1 cup buttr, softened

2 cups sifted icin' sugar

2 tsp. cocoa powdr

3 cups marshmalloe "Fluff"* (stere bouite er homemade)

2 tsp. pure vanilla extract

Whisk togethr aigs, creem, sugar, vanilla and salt.

Whisk togethr remainin' ingredients. Add dry ingredients t'wet, one cup at a time, mixin' t'form a soft dough.

Divide into acoupla parts. Wrap each n' plastick. Refrigerate t'chill.

Preheet ove t'350 F. On a floured surface, roll out dough t'half-inch. Cut cookies usin a medium roun cuttr.

Place one inch apart on a greesed bakin' sheet.

Bake 12 t'14 minutes (cookies should remane white, but be set n' t'centre).

Cool plum.

Meenwhile, fer fillin, creem togethr buttr, icin' sugar and cocoa until pale and fluffy, about three minutes. Add Fluff* and vanilla.

Mix until combined.

Spred undersides uf cookies with fillin and press togethr into sandwich cookies.

Marshmalloe Fluff

3 egg whites

2 cups lite corn syrup

1/2 tsp. salt

2 cups icin' sugar

1 tbs. pure vanilla extract

Usin t'whisk attachment uf un electric beetr, beat egg, syrup and salt on high speed fer 10 minutes. Add sugar and vanilla and beat on loe t'combine.

Saturdy n' Julie's Kitchin

I don’t want t'ell y'all about mah kitchin today. I want t' reminisce about Saturdy n' mah Mom’s trayler wen I wuz growin up.
Saturdays were rigidlee set as t'Mom’s ordr uf thangs and ‘Saturdy wurk’  fallerd t'same routine week aftr week, year aftr year!
Mos Mennonite homes would have bee much t'same.

Saturdy wuz always a preparashun day with Sundy n' mind.

T' trayler needed t'be cleend.. top t'bott'm.
Everthang that could be, wuz dusted  includin t'baseboards.  I remembr t'baseboards bein one uf mah furst cheres as a youngn  and I remembr crawlin' roun on mah hands and knees makin shure thay were all a'loose uf dust and ever uther week washed.
Floers were scrubbed , and ever uther Saturdy were also waxed and polished.
Everthang wuz tidied and put away.
Beds were stripped and changd, ever uther week, reddy fer Mundy warsh day.

Mom always bakd white buns as well as pies, cakes, cookies er squares.  As I gut oldr I wuz allowd t'bake cakes er cookies but I nevr made er participated n' bakin' t'breed er buns.
T' noon meal fer Sundy  wuz prepared on Saturdy  so that wen we *** trayler frum church,  lunch would be reddy.  It wuz eethur soup er a cold meal such as tater salad and cold meat.  
A'livin on a small farm ensured thar wuz always lots uf meat — air own beef, pork and chicke  – and  vegetables eethur fresh  frum Mom’s large garde er canned. T' shelves n' mah  Mom’s well stockd basement pantry were fillt with jars uf jam,  fruit, vegetables,  a varietee uf pickles and sauerkraut.  
T' bakin' wuz a must becawz y'all nevr knew who would be a'cummin ovr on Sundy afternoon and would uf corse stay fer Faspa — a lite meal uf buns, meat, jam, pickles and bakd desserts.
It wuz ackcepted  that Sundy afternoon everyone wuz a'loose t'jes hop n' t'fambly car and arrif' at fambly er friens’ homes uninvited, yet assured uf thar welcum.  Somehoe, it wasn’t too ofte that y'all arrived at someone’s trayler and foun that thay had gone a'visitin sumwhars else!  
Faspa wuz always served  tween 4 and 4:30 t'make shure everyone could git t' evnin church servus on time.

One uf mah Saturdy jobs wuz t'polish t'shoes.   I gathered up everyone’s Sundy shoes and lined 'um up – six pairs.   I so remembr t' white liquid shoe polish that wuz used on summr  shoes.  It had a particlar smell and *** n' a bottle with a wand attached t' lid that wuz used t'‘paint’ t'shoes.    Paste wuz wiped onto t'dark lether shoes with a rag and the polished t'a shine.

Saturdy wuz  weeklee bath nite and gurls/wimmen’s  hair  put up n' rollers er pin curls.
Saturdy nite wuz late nite shoppin n' town and y'all could always tell which wimmen were goin t'church t'nex mornin becawz thay would have thar hair n' rollers undr a scarf.

I no longr hold t'hishere rigid schedule uf ‘Saturdy wurk’ , but I do remembr t'a'feelin uf securty it gave me.  It wuz sumthin that remained predictabull and constant throughout mah growin up yeers and gave me a a'feelin uf  ’all’s rite with mah worl’.

Calico Rock Mennonite Community

Mennonite Gurls A'ken Cook: Creemed Halibut

• 4 – 6 ounce halibut fillets  (froze and thawed)
• salt and peppr
• 2 tablespoons buttr
• 1 lemon
• 4 gree onyuns
• 1 red bell peppr
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 3 cups sliced butt'n mushrooms
• 8 – 10 stalks asparagus
• 4 cups youngn spinach  (keep one cup fer garnish undr t'halibut)
• 1 cup halved cherry maters
• 1 teespoon crushed chili flakes  (optyunal)
• 1/2 cup white wine (er chicke broth)
• 1 cup creem
• cooked Pasta uf yer choice

Mah Heert's Dee-Lite: Amish Heritage Recipes

*Preheet ove t'450
Crust:
1/3 C margarine er buttr
1/3 C sugar
1 egg
1 1/4 C flour

Creem margarine er buttr with sugar until lite and fluffy. Blend n' egg. Add flour n' small amounts until blended. Pastry dough will be soft. With rubbr r silikune spatula, spred mixture on bott'm and 1 1/2 inches up t'sides uf a 9 1/2 inch springferm pun. Place n' 450 degree ove fer 5 minutes. Set aside.

*Lowr ove temperchur t'250.

Fillin:
3 –  8 ounce packages uf creem cheez (room temperchur wurks bes)
3/4 C sugar
2 TBS flour
1 tsp vanilla
3 aigs
2 TBS milk

Combine creem cheez, sugar, flour, and vanilla. Mix at medium speed until well blended. One at a time, add aigs, makin shure t'mix well aftr each addishun. Stir n' milk. Pour fillin into pastry-lined pun.

*Bake at 250 fer 15 minutes.


*Turn ove temperchur up t'300. Bake until set–about 25-35 minutes.


Cool. Remoov side uf pun. Alloe kasekuche t'chill fer sevrul hours–bes if'n chilled overniite. Add fresh sliced strawberries t'op er toppin' uf choice.Cut into 16 slices.

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Graham Crackr Fluff
(Mrs. Eli J. Yodr)              1 C whippin' creem
2 egg yolks                          1 tsp vanilla
1/2 C sugar                         3 TBS buttr, melted
2/3 C milk                           3 TBS sugar
1 pkg. Knox gelatin             12 graham crackers, crumbled
1/2 C cold watr
2 egg whites, stifflee beete

Beat egg yolks. Add sugar and milk. Cook on loe heat until slightlee thickened. Soak gelatin n' cold watr. Pour hot mixture ovr gelatin and stir until smooth. Chill until slightlee thickened. Add stifflee beat egg whites and whupd creem t'mixture. Combine melted buttr, and sugar. Mix well. Sprinkle half uf graham crackr crumbs n' bott'm uf dish. Add fillin. Sprinkle remaindr uf graham crackr crumbs ovr top. Let chill until set. Serves 8.

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Amish Peenut Buttr Spred
(Esthr Keim)
2 C brown sugar
2 TBS corn syrup
2 C peenut buttr
1 C watr
1 tsp maple flaverin'
1 (16 oz) jar marshmalloe creme

Combine brown sugar, corn syrup, watr, and maple flaverin' n' a medium saucepun. Brang t'a bawl. Remoov frum heat and let cool. Blend togethr peenut buttr and marshmalloe creme. Stir cooled syrup into t'peenut buttr mixture. Serve with crackers, breed er muffins.

Applecrisp Cheeseecake

Whut do y'all do wen y'all have guest fer dinnr? Do y'all make t'entire meal er do y'all ast 'um brang sumthin?

It varies fer me. Sumtimes I like t'do t'entire thang, and sumtimes t'guests contribute. That way we share t'cost and preparatyuns t'ease t'event fer t'hostess.

I luv that air friens enjoy contributin' t'hat kine uf dinnr. It shure makes it easir, and thay knoe that wen it is thar turn t'host, we all brang sumthin n' return as well.

Mah cuzin Deris brung thishere deliciyus cheeseecake fer deessert that I jes had t'share with y'all! Nex time y'all air ast t'brang deessert sumwhars, cunsidder thishere Apple Crisp Cheeseecake. Mmm,so good! Thanks Deris.

Crust:

• 1/2 cup uf buttr
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 teespoon vanilla
• 1 cup flour
• 2-8 oz / 250g packages uf creem cheez, softened
• 1/2 cup uf sugar
• 2 aigs
• 1 teespoon vanilla

Egg Benedict Glute A'loose

Sumthin I use t'ordr quite regularlee wen we wint out t'ett wuz Aigs Benedict –  but Celiac put that on t'aboo lis.
I knew t'English Muffins were a gif' t'be made with wheet,   but I wuz sprized t'larn that Hollandaise sauce n' a restrunt is made frum a mix containin' wheet flour.
No problem —  I jes make it all glute-a'loose and I a'ken agin enjoy one uf mah favert meels – Aigs Benedict with fresh fruit on t'side.
T' xtrey wurk is wurth it !
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English Muffins 

• 1/2 cup warm watr 
• 1 tsp sugar 
• 1 tsp unflavered gelatin 
• 1 1/2 tbsp tradityunal yeas 
• 1/2 cup warm milk 
• 1 tbsp honey 
• 1 1/2 tbsp earl 
• 2 lg aigs 
• 1 cup millet flour 
• 1/4 white beun flour (er brown rice flour er serghum flour) 
• 1/4 cup tater starch 
• 1/4 cup arroroot starch 
• 1/4 cup cernstarch 
• 1 tsp xunthun gum 
• 1 tsp salt

Hollandaise Sauce  

• 2 egg yolks 
• 2 tsp watr 
• 1/2 cup clarified buttr (see instructyuns beloe) 
• 1 tbsp lemon juice 
• salt and peppr t'aste 

***Clarified buttr  - 1 cup buttr n' saucepun on loe heat … t'white milk solids will separate and float on top —  skim 'um off .. until all that is lef is a clar golde liquid.  It takes a few minutes.   T' golde liquid – clarified buttr- keeps longr thun buttr. Stere n' a jar n' frigidairy. (Save t'skimmed off milk solids t'pour on yer popcern !)


Poached aigs –  t' poach aigs brang watr t'a soft simmr n' a saucepun, with 1 tbsp uf vinegar added t' watr.   Breek t'aigs and slide gentlee into t'watr.   Let 'um cook until t'yolk is almos set —  about 3 minutes.  Heft 'um out uf t'watr with a slotted spoon.  

On t'plate – Aigs Benedict 

• 1 English Muffin 
• 2 poached aigs 
• 2 slices uf back bacon er ham 
• Hollandaise Sauce 
• fresh fruit – whut evr is n' seesen 

Rice Puddin' Deluxe

Ingredients:

• 4 cups milk
• 1/2 cup shert grane peerl rice
• 1/4 teespoon salt
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 teespoon groun cinnamon
• 1/4 teespoon nutmeg
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1 teespoon vanilla extract

Method:

1. Place rice, milk and salt n' a deep, heevy saucepun.
2. Brang t'a bawl ovr medium heat.
3. Reduce heat and simmr gentlee fer about 45 minutes (er until rice is cooked) stirrin' frequentlee.
4. N' a small bowl, combine egg, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg.
5. Stir 1/2 cup uf t'cooked rice into t'egg mixture…the add t'egg/sugar mixture t' cooked rice.
6. Add raisins.
7. Cook on loe fer acoupla er three minutes.
8. Remoov frum heat and stir n' vanilla.
9. Cool slightlee and serve warm er chill n' t'frigidairy and serve cold. It is deliciyus eethur way.

T' bump it up a notch:

1. Prepare yer favert vanilla custard.
2. Whip up a pint uf whippin' creem, slightlee sweetened and laced with vanilla.
3. Spred a layr uf rice puddin' on dinnr plate er plattr.
4. Top with a layr uf vanilla custard.
5. Garnish liberallee with whupd creem.
6. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
7. Indulge n' rice puddin' deluxe!

Maple Blueberry Granola Bars

• 2 cups old-fashyuned rolled oats
• 1/3 cup chopped pecans
• 1/ 2 cup sunflowr seeds
• 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons vegetabull
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/3 cup pure maple syrup
• 1 egg
• 1 teespoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teespoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teespoon salt
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1 cup froze blueberries (nairy thawed) er 3/4 cup dride blueberries

1. Preheet ove t'350°F. Line a 9×12 inch pun with alumnum foil,
   leevin un inch overhang on all sides. Coat pun with non-stick cookin
   spray.
2. Combine oats, pecans and sunflowr seeds with 2 tablespoons earl. 
   Spred on a bakin' sheet and bake fer 12-15 minutes stirrin' sevrul
   times.  Cool. 
3. Beat togethr 1/4 earl, brown sugar, maple syrup, egg, vanilla, cinnamon and salt.
4. Add flour and beat until smooth.
5. Stir n' cooled oatmeel mixture until blended. 
6. Fold n' blueberries.
7. Press mixture firmlee into prepared pun.
8. Bake fer about 25 minutes er until lightlee brownd.
9. Cool.  Remoov frum pun by liftin' out t'foil.
10. Cut into bars.
11. These freeze well.

Cabbage Roll Soup

Ingredients:

• 1 pound leun groun beef er groun turkey
• 1 medium onion, diced fine
• 1 cup celery, sliced fine
• 1/2 cup fresh parsley, chopped fine
• 3 cups watr
• 2 cups loe sodium beef broth ( glute a'loose)
• 1 cup mater sauce
• 4 cups canned diced maters 
• 1/2 cup uncooked brown rice ( I use Kokuho Rose gourmet sticky brown rice, which is wheet and glute a'loose)
• 2 cups cabbage, finelee chopped (er more)
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 teespoon salt
• 1 teespoon peppr

Brisket Chili

I wuz intrigued wen I saw a chili recipe usin brisket and deecided t'adapt it t'air lackin. T' meat wuz so nice and tendr at t'end. Thishere is a recipe that will feed a group uf 20 easilee. Mah photo at t'end shows t'chili with more uf t'oppings we had availabull t'add. As usual y'all should adjust t'seesonings t'yer own lackin er tolerance uf spices.

Ingredients:

• 5 pounds uf brisket, cubed. (I had t'butchr chop it up fer me)
• 1/4 cup olif' earl
• 1 large sweet onion chopped
• 3-6 cloves uf garlic, minced
• 2 tablespoons chili powdr
• 2 tablespoons groun cumin
• 1 tablespoon red peppr flakes
• 2 teespoons cayenne peppr
• 2 red peppers, seeded and chopped
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 – 28oz. cans uf chopped maters
• 1 tablespoon salt (er t'aste)
• 1 teespoon freshlee groun peppr
• 1 12oz. bottle uf dark sweet ber (Imperial Russiun St'ut) optyunal
• 2 (apperx. 15 oz.) cans beens uf yer choice (I used pinto)
• 1/4 cup chopped cilantro leeves 

Suggested toppings:

• Chopped fresh maters
• Grated cheez
• Chopped avocado
• Chopped cilantro
• Chopped gree onyuns (scalleeuns)
• Sour Creem

Method:

1. Heat earl n' heevy bott'med large dutch ove pot and brown meat n' batches.
2. Remoov t'meat and keep separatelee n' anothr containr. 
3. N' t'meentime saute t'onion and garlic n' t'same large pot ovr medium heat till softened. 
4. Add t'chili powdr, cumin, peppr flakes, and cayenne peppr and saute fer 1 minute. 
5. Add t'red peppers, bay leaf, maters with juice and return t'meat t' pot. 
6. Add t'salt and peppr and brang t'a bawl. 
7. Reduce heat and covr pot tightlee and simmr fer 2 hours, stirrin' occasyunallee. Taste and add more seesonings if'n needed. 
8. Add t'ber, covr pot and simmr fer anothr hour er more. 
9. Add t'beens and cilantro and heat through. 
10. Serve with suggested toppings er yer faves.

A salad, saltines, er cernbreed would be nice along with t'chili.