The Secret Amish Recipes

The Amish are a religious group who live in settlements in 22 of the United States and Ontario, Canada. The oldest group of "Old Order Amish," about 16-18,000 people live in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The Amish women are amazingly good cooks, but only cook plain foods raised on their farms, such as pork, beef, chicken, turkey, and garden vegetables. The truth is that the Amish have far more recipes than are widely known, and if you like Amish food, you may like some of the other things they make. Good Food begins with really UNDERSTANDING food, and who understands food better than those who work with it from its very beginning than the Amish? The Amish grow their own food, raise their own meat, and create their own dairy products. They do this in the old traditional way, without hormones and chemical additives. All of these recipes in this book work best with FRESH and locally or home-grown foods. You can get them at your local farmer's market.