My mother used to make homemade donuts when I was little. She used buttermilk and they were the best I have ever eaten. She was not Amish, but I believe the receipe was handed down from her Quaker ancestry. There is nothing like food made from farm fresh ingredients.
Mountain pies are made in pie irons and are wildly popular throughout Pennsylvania. You can put pretty much anything in a pie iron, for dessert pies use pie fillings.
We used pie irons whenever we camped, breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert... anything you can put between two slices of bread became a pie! It was a Michigan thing
We sometimes used canned pie filling and make Mountain Pies with it. I have never thought of the Mountain pie as being Amish. The Schnitz pie is dark because the dried apples get dark, during the drying process. The Amish make another pie called a Moon pie in our Amish community. The moon pie fillings can be raisin, apple schnitz, peach, cherry or lemon. We sometimes shop at a local Amish store, There is a hitching post for them and a regular parking lot for cars. The store sells Potato chips, bulk cereals, fresh local produce, Ice cream, spices, and fresh cut lunch meats and cheese. They make a heck of a good fresh sub sandwich. They cut the meat fresh for each sandwich, Hope your not in a hurry.
Greetings from Germany In your videos I recognize a lot from Germany in the 50s and 60s. It makes happy and melancholic at the same time. Thank you for your videos. ~~ Grüße aus Deutschland Ich erkenne in deinen Videos so vieles aus Deutschland in den 50er und 60er Jahren wieder. Es macht einen glücklich und melancholisch zugleich. Hab Dank für deine Videos.
At my first church fellowship meal with the Amish, the man next to me took a piece of bread and layered unique mixture of Amish peanut butter, jam,topped off with egg salad. Being one to never shirk a cultural experience, I repeated the layers on my bread and decided that this gentlemen must not really be able to taste much anymore.
@@AmishAmerica I have a question. They have church collectively every other Sunday. So do they have a family "church" service of some kind on the Sundays in between. You might have answered this in a video I've seen. But my memory isn't what it could be and this video brought up the question.
They make the best summer sausage here in Ontario. We buy the all beef ones because we don't eat pork. Kichen Kuttings in St jacobs market Ontario. They have lots of jams too which i stock up on whenever I head there.
Haha yes lancaster county-gotta watch out. They will actually buy pie crusts around here. They don’t always make their own. We got SOME cheating Amish 😂 but I must say they keep the area gorgeous! My husbands last name Is Yoder, and family history is a lot of Amish. A woman in his family line made a book, “Mennonite community cookbook” love that book. So many great recipes from Amish/Mennonite families.
Greetings from Australia. Enjoying this series very much. My family had "mountain pie" irons when I was growing up. I currently have 2 irons. One is a double. Most of my friends also have them. However we have always known them as "jaffles". They can be made sweet or savoury. So I have two "Jaffle Irons". Isn't humanity strange. The more we appear to be different the more we seem to be so similar.
I grew up with them too in Wisconsin. we called them "pudgie pies". I remember pizza was a favorite flavor. I have also made them with pudding and chocolate chips.
Yep, I just looked these up. Were invented by an Aussie in 1949. I do remember these growing up in Wisconsin. I think I first saw them on camping trips. Didn't recall name--but yep pudgie pie sounds familiar. You can still buy on Amazon. These are definitely not of Amish origin, though no doubt they would enjoy them too. Heck sounds like a fun addition to my campervan kitchen.
I am from the area in Germany whose dialect is closest to Pennsylvania Deutsch or at least close enough that I can read and understand it. And your pronunciation of the cheese spread sounded perfect to me. It was interesting how many of these foods were close to traditional foods we eat here while others were so very American.
I have an Amish grocery store about 45 minutes away. I always stop by when I'm in the area. They have a bakery which has Amish made bread , cookies , pies,etc. It's Amazing
I live next to Holmes county and my best friend grew up there. Whenever I go with her there I have to get custard pie...my favorite. I have tried multiple breakfast casserole and I am not a fan. I go there to get fruits and vegetables rather than the grocery store. There are so many good reasons to go to Amish country.
Living here in Missouri, there's a couple of Amish stores that we patron quite a bit. I love their strawberry jalapeno jam. They have so many food items that look so delicious that I'm going to have to try at least once before I die. We support them as much as possible. I'll have to try that spread.
I went college in Unity Maine and the donuts where delicious and super popular. Also been to Lancaster a lot my favorite pie is the pecan pie and i like the Amish baked oatmeals.
We have made several trips to various Amish communities and enjoyed them all. We have several Amish neighbors in our area now and have become friends with a lot of them. I really enjoy working with them and have been an “Amish Taxi service”. Nice folks and great cooks!!!!!
I LOVED going to Lancaster. The BEST bacon I ever had was at Good and Plenty Buffet. It just melted in your mouth. We bought some to take home. There is NOTHING even close to that bacon. Also, I love the Amish noodles. Now I am hungry, lol
In our Mennonite community, tea made with homegrown mint is very popular. I wonder if the Amish grow this, too. Anyone fortunate enough to be invited to dinner or a Fellowship Meal after Sunday services will not go away hungry!
@@emmib1388 , you can easily grow it also if you have the space. I grew up Amish and we had fresh tea almost every morning in the summer and we dried the leaves to use in the winter. We primarily made tea from 4 different types of tea plants. Catnip, spearmint, peppermint and what we called malbalsam tea. I have never figured out what that last one translates to in English. If someone else knows, please let me know. 🙂.
There is a small Amish community in Orleans county NY ( about 40 minutes north east of Buffalo) Millers bulk food and Bakery sells double smoked ham deli meat and at Christmas and Easter hams that are phenomenal. Also the maple walnut cinnamon rolls are the best I have ever eaten. Very friendly staff.
I went to an Amish meal at an Amish farm here in Lancaster and an Amish farm in Ohio. I have never had ham that tasted so good and it wasn't salty tasting. Amish angel food cake can't be beat. Light and fluffy. He is correct the donuts ate to die for
I lived in PA for a while and although I found the Amish pies to be beautiful looking, they were (for me) tasteless. They were fresh and the crusts were great, but the Amish must consider spices in the same category as electricity! However, their breads were outstanding!
My favorite place to eat in Indiana is always the Amish food that I ate most recently in Daviess County, Indiana. Before the pandemic, there were three buffet restaurants there that we always frequented. Knepp's in Montgomery, Stoll's east of the lake near Loogootee, and the Gastoff village north of Montgomery.
The only "Shoofly" I am aware of... We spray on the horses during the Summer months! 🐎 And those toasted sandwiches look scrumptious, just add some roasted bacon 🥓 hmmm 🇬🇧
We visit Holmes County Ohio several times a year. Most Amish food is plain and simply seasoned, but I can not resist the cheese tarts at Miller’s bakery. Their Amish donuts are melt in your mouth as well. The homemade vanilla ice cream with fresh peach purée at Hershberger’s is a must stop.
I spent six years in central Pennsylvania. Actually in Howard PA in Centre county. The Amish there are a bit stand-offish but once they realize you're not a tourist they tend to warm up. I remember one year we had a big community yard sale and my partner and I didn't really have anything we needed to sell, so I decided to set up a snack stand. I made individual fruit and custard pies and whoopie pies. I have to tell you, when the Amish of our little tiny town realized I was selling mini pies and whoopie pies those kids FLOCKED to my stand. They were so adorable and very polite. A few of them drug their mothers over to sample my pies. I got a lot of compliments and the kids snatched up ALL my whoopie pies. I sold everything that day. They appreciated that every thing I was selling was homemade. I used our own fresh grown raspberries, apples, and home made custard. (Which I got really good at making) My whoopie pies I used what's called Seven Minute frosting. It's an egg white and white sugar frosting that actually takes seven minutes to whip up. It's also more freezer friendly than other fillings. I was able to make the whoopie pies and freeze them before the sale. We really got to know several of the Amish families and they were so sweet to us. They knew we were a couple of women living together and never once judged us.
Most desserts are too sweet to me. I have been lucky enough to find an Amish roadside food stand that sells a not-so-sweet strawberry rhubarb jam. Delicious. An Amish man did a day-in-the-life column in our local paper. He described meals and I was quite surprised the family often had hamburgers along with traditional breakfast foods. Each family member then went off to do their assigned chores.
We have a couple of pie irons and use them when camping. What’s cool about them is well you can use them to make all kinds of foods from sandwiches to calzones to pies and more.
I grew up inWisconsin and mountain pies we called pudgy pies. We would put sloppy Joe, or cheese, meat or poultry with gravy, anything you would like. Also made sweet pudgy pies with apple, cherry, or blueberry pie filling. Yummy ♥️
These are some great comments and the thing I'm learning from you all is that just about any food can go into a mountain/pudgy/Tonka/Jaffle pie as a filling:)
I agree. Shoofly is too sweet, even the chocolate. What you call mountain pie, we called pudgy pie or camp pie and I am not Amish, but my family heritage is supposedly Pennsylvania Dutch
You think so? We used to scrap the mold off the outside of sausage in the middle of winter. Sauerkraut is loaded with salt. The canned fruits are loaded with sugar. And canned meat is also loaded with salt. They have to eat in the winter too.
@@oldgoat1890 True but I would still rather eat homegrown than the pesticide and herbicide laden GMO stuff from the store which is also laden with sugar and salt.
@@lorenstribling6096 all food is gmo, there is not one vegetable grown today that has not been genetically altered to give mankind a higher yield and bigger size.
I grew up with camping vacations in Illinois and Wisconsin and we made sweet or savory pies in the metal contraptions you showed and I am 67, so definitely not just an Amish thing.
Gotta say Shoofly pie is a heavy favorite here, also Montgomery pie, a variation on Shoofly with a lemon-flavored cakey top layer. Whoopie pies also well liked. A favorite stop when we travel south is Hilsher's General Store in Port Trevorton, PA (Snyder County) where I always look for a coffee whoopie pie (coffee-flavored cookies instead of chocolate).
Scrapple, ham, sausage, and bacon were the usual breakfast meats along with fried sweet bologna. Fried corn meal mush was at times a meat substitute. Fried potatoes were a must. Sometimes leftover meat and vegetables along with mashed potatoes were mixed with eggs and scrambled. Occasionally oatmeal or pancakes. This is of course circa 1969-1979.
Great additions to the list here. Sweet bologna and corn meal mush could make it onto a part 2 video for me. I wonder if, and how much, some of these dishes have changed since the period of time you mention.
I was at an Amish store in NC last week and saw so many foods I haven’t had since I was a kid 45+ years ago and corn meal mush was one of them.I had to explain what it was yo my daughter
Where I grew up in Upstate N.Y. we had a small Mennonite community, they always had the best foods. Often the shunned Amish will become Mennonite. Loved the macaroni salad that this one lady made. We picked strawberries on their farm for personal use Jacob sold them for $.25 a quart.
In my area one of the Church foods is a half moon pie. Same thing as your snitz pie only smaller in the shape of a half moon. My personal favorite . I have had the full sized snitz pie in Lancaster County and it’s very good. Most of our ladies use the yellow delicious apple to make their snitz.
I looked up the recipe for the Amish peanut butter, it has peanut butter, marshmallow cream, and karo syrup. I could understand the use of the karo syrup, or corn syrup, as it used to be made by farmers at the end of the season when cutting down the corn stalks, as it is made of the sweet juice inside the corn stalk. I thought at first it would be molasses, as the Mennonites here in TN made their own molasses, on one week set aside they all get together and cut the stalks and put them into a grinder, seems like it was pulled by horses, not sure, but they made a huge amount of molasses out of the stalks of the plant.
New here great Vedo I was born n raised in Lancaster Pennsylvania girl ....we lived beside Amish n they are the nicest people n the food is out of the world!!!!
In the UK, 'mountain pie' would be a 'toasted cheese [and whatever] sandwich' - distinct from a 'cheese toastie' by the fact that the edges of the bread are not crimped shut by the sandwich press. Both are excellent so long as you're okay with risking third-degree burns to the tongue if you're impatient from the heated cheese, particularly with the toastie since the heat is trapped by the crimping.
I read up the recipe for Shoofly Pie. You're basically just eating molasses baked in a crust. Doesn't sound to appetizing to me, but like many things people love; it's an acquired taste.
it was not originally intended as a pie but rather a way to keep the flies away from the actual pies that were cooling...that is how they got the name 'shoo fly" :-) You may want to give it a try sometime -- you may just like it!
1. Pie=black raspberry, snitz, and pecan. 2. Breakfast Casserole=Amish made...so good! Heavy in calories. 3. Homemade donuts. Say no more. 4. Amish Peanut Butter (called church peanut butter by the Amish)=served church Sundays, tastes like peanut butter but sweeter. More runny. The cheese spread is good too. 5. Mountain Pies=not actually a dessert. Bread, meat, cheese over a bonfire. Lovely experience to go along with it.
Love your reporting on the Plain people. Not Amish (but partly from an Quaker heritage) and grew up in Wayne County, Indiana. And yes are Amish have surely joined that area of Indiana, and - always good to see them about.
Thanks! That has been a nice area for Amish growth. I actually haven't visited that one but have been to Parke County on the other side of the state which is a similar story of Lancaster County Amish transplants.
It’s fantastic. So are other nut butters they make. I love honey peanut and cashew. Essentially they are sweeter more spreadable, less dense (runny) versions of regular peanut or cashew butter. Absolutely addicting. Not for when on a diet. Now I’m going to have to make the run to Lancaster and get some.
My Amish great aunt made concord grape pie. I took over the stuffed pig's stomach and cow tongue. There was snitz & knepp, the dried apple/ham/dumpling dish. Shoefly needs to be sloppy, not dry. We all meet, amish & non amish, once a year, and the food is to die for!
Yes thats a great one, I literally Just brought that up at work thy other day! Almost forget about it at times,but I'm Definitely putting that together one of these days!! Haystack is one thing we'd have abit at the singings,sunday nights when the youngfolks got together.
My grandmother specialized in strawberry-rhubarb pie - a recipe that was a favorite amongst her 12 siblings… she also made donuts and waffles on the weekends and, after she went blind, my grandfather took over the task…
That's an interesting one. Pumpkin pie is one of those that's kind of like whoopie pies or shoofly - I can take it mostly in small doses. The pumpkin taste is nice but just a taste :)
My family isn't Amish, but I grew up in York County, Pennsylvania in the 1950's and 60's. My mother made chicken pot pie, which is like a stew with homemade broad noodles, hogmaw, green beans and ham, oyster pot pie and many homemade soups like chicken corn soup. For dessert we had shoofly pie, sugar cakes, Amish pie, sticky buns, Montgomery pie and many cakes. We ate pig souse, puddin' and red beets and eggs.
Your pot pie is called slippery chicken, beef or ham pot pie. Slippery is the key word to separate it from a two crusted pie. Ours was made with a rolled out white dough and cut into squares. Grandma made her egg noodles and dried them on tea towels hung over the kitchen chairs. Cooked w/chicken and served w/mashies. And, how I miss Montgomery pie. Most folks don't even know what it is. "Well, you start with a lemon......."
Amish people have always been interesting to me. I went to an Amish buffet. The bring platters of food for tables. The menu was real simple but it was so good. Nothing like the average city place. They gad dessert carts that was just loaded with all kinds of goodies
Thx for sharing all of this interesting info! I live about 25 minutes north of Holmes County, Ohio. As my maternal Grandmother was Pennsylvania Dutch, I have frequented the Amish area since I was young and am now in my 60s. Interesting to learn that the campfire pies we have made since young are also called Mountain pies.... Thx Again for sharing! Happy Old Christmas!!
I had to watch to see what your favorites were. Thanks for sharing. Mountain Pies are made in a Pie Iron often sold in camping departments. Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed
I live in an area with a lot of Amish. We have a bulk foods store here that sells a donut mix that is FABULOUS. Follow the directions available and it tastes just like the donuts from the bakery next door to the .
My family that lives in NY (I'm in Tx.) make the mountain pie all throughout the summer and fall. Put everything from meat and cheese to fruit filling.
Just came across your channel. I live in central pa, and have spent a decent amount of time in Lancaster. I don’t have any direct Amish/Mennonite friends, however I would not be surprised if some of my ancestors were. Any Amish dessert IMO cake/cookies/pies taste best if they are lard based. I go to Snyder county once a month to shop for groceries, along the Susquehanna there is a really good baked goods place. A lot of your videos are true, a very misunderstood culture
Thanks a lot and I'm glad you found the channel. I think living in central PA would be great, just for the access to so many different Amish communities. Have you had a chance to go to the Mifflin County area? (Big Valley)
I learned about Mountain pies in the Boy Scouts. Today I have my own pie irons and mountain pies are always made when we light up the back yard fire pit.
Interesting to hear your food choices. Thanks for sharing this video. I lived up in the Massillon, Ohio area for one autumn, and loved it up there. I’d drive down to visit my parents on the weekends that I could get away on, and I’d always stop at the Amish shop in Wooster, Ohio, out of my way a bit, but it was well worth the few minutes added to the drive time. I’d get a few things from their shop, but I always made sure I bought some of their baby lacy Swiss cheese, which was so smooth and creamy in texture. Then I’d get some of their home made mixed chocolates which I could always chose which candies to add to the box. When I’d walk in the door at my parents’ home their eyes would light up. A local store once sold their jams, jellies, and preserves and I’d always buy them for my parents, and then there at the end it was my mother only. Those are excellent as you can use them as a spread on food or bake with them, or best of all, put a few teaspoons onto a bowl of vanilla ice cream and then mix it in. Very yummy on a hot summer day. The Amish were so kind to me I seriously considered joining them, but I believe a little differently than they do concerning salvation. But there was a good man up there who was a hard worker with a beautiful smile who almost persuaded me to join. I’m sure he is married by now with a house full of children and grandchildren as well. They have the right idea on how to live.
Breakfast casserole is known as Soufflé you also add torn bread in it, there are other types of casseroles that they refer to as Soufflés any type of casserole with torn bread soaked in the casserole mixture. It usually sets in the refrigerator for 24 hrs where the casserole mixture sets up before you bake it. The breakfast soufflés are usually served up at churches for Sunrise Service, where it’s a early Easter Church Service and, then a breakfast is served up before the church service on Easter morning. That’s where, I first ate it, but, not in a Amish church. But, if you read the Amish books, some have Amish recipes in the back of the book and some are actually included in some of the chapters. I like the Amish coffee cakes and there Stone fruit butters, Pear and Pumpkin are my favorites. I also like some there unique cheese flavors= Love ❤️ the Horseradish Cheese.
Here in Parke County, Indiana, the Amish snitz pie is made with apple butter instead of dried apples. Not many Amish take the time to dry apples so consequently the pies are not as tasty. My Amish friends wife makes a very good pecan pie. When she bakes pies for church service, she bakes 30 at a time. The reason for 30 pies is so she has extras. Since I see them at least once a week, one of these "extra pies" is for me. I might add the Amish started moving into Parke County Indiana in 1993 from Lancaster Pennsylvania. The settlement now has 12 districts.
Thanks for this! I’ve been to Lancaster County several times and enjoyed eating Amish food. I don’t like intensely sweet food, but Amish plain doughnuts are delicious! I love fruit pies but not shoo-fly pie. My family made Mountain pies! We didn’t call them that. We’re not Amish or Mennonite. But we had a stone fireplace in our back yard and we often cooked outdoors in hot weather. We made toasted sandwiches in one of those special holders.
Eve I think you are the 3rd viewer from Australia that has mentioned that - have loved learning this new term for me, and also getting all the feedback from Australians:) Not sure if you're aware but there was/is a Plain "Amishesque" (not actually Amish, but resembling them in some ways) family in Tasmania which was the subject of an article in the Sydney Morning Herald:amishamerica.com/amish-in-australia/
@@AmishAmerica Thankyou for the feedback my friend, Tasmania is a lovely place,reminds me a lot of New Zealand, my parents came to Aussie from Germany in the early 50's. I enjoying watching about the Amish on utube they are hard working people just as my parents were. Our lives were not that much different than the Amish in a lot of ways. Will check out the artical from Sydney Morning Herald, thankyou and stay safe and well. Cheers from Australia 👍🍻
In Australia we call those Mountain Pies “Jaffles”. Most people make them when camping including boy and Girl Scouts. I love bacon, egg and cheese in mine cooked slowly over the fire coals until the egg is set. We tend to eat more savoury fillings in them such as beef or lamb stews with gravy, baked beans, canned spaghetti, cooked corned beef with sauerkraut and cheese like a Ruben (?) pie etc.
This is neat to know Pamela, you are the second person who mentioned the Australian name (which I love), and now I know a bit more about the fillings. I am fascinated by the idea of canned spaghetti in one of these :)
Forgot to mention that we call the metal clamps “Jaffle irons”, they can be purchased in round, square or double shapes. Thai green chicken curry is another popular filling here in Oz.
Hi Pamela …thats so funny ! … l started looking for this comment when he started talking about Mountain Pies. I have a very old round jaffle maker and it’s the first thing l pack when we go camping 😊 … My Husband likes baked beans and l like ham and cheese … l have never thought of making a sweet one ! … l might just do that the next time we go camping … 😊😊
I just ordered some Amish peanut butter spread. It sounded so interesting. I actually like the shoofly pie and have made it with various degrees of success. The one I made with light molasses was much better than the dark molasses. It was just too too!
I'm from bucks county but my aunt lives out Kutztown so any time I come to her camp ground I always try and make my way out to Lancaster for the food and gifts. I moved to Baltimore and we have an amish market here I just went yesterday and OMG THE STUFFED PRETZELS OMG OMG OMG lol my live is changed.
Some of my favorite Amish/PA Dutch foods are shoofly pie, peanut butter whoopie pie, apple dumpling, chow chow, pickled eggs and beets, chicken corn soup with rivels, and schnitz un knepp.
Eli Yoder has a short video out on making Amish Peanut butter. My wife whipped up a batch so our kids could try it and wow!! Out of this world! Very sweet, but simple and awesome.
I live near the Mennonite community in St. Jacobs, Ontario (Canada), and many of these hold true here as well. There's an apple fritter stand at our local farmer's market - and you'd better get up early if you want some, or you'll find yourself in a waiting line that goes right out the door! (And they live up to the hype.)
I was first introduced to breakfast casserole at my ex-husband's grandparent's house. She made it for Sunday breakfast, and we ate it all day long. Also, I checked out 2 Amish cookbooks at the library today. My dad's favorite pie is pecan. I like all pies, I'll buy the small pies at the store when I see them. I once made breakfast casserole for my mom on Christmas when I spent the night. Usually with breakfast casserole you would take a loaf of bread and make crumbles and put them in the casserole.
We made fresh shaken cinnamon sugar ...shook in brown paper lunchsack and oh they were good. With cider in the fall. The different seasons meant different foods. Hunting , fishing, growing your own and canning.. good country life! No I'm not Amish but have relatives in ancestry who were. None of the food was low cal but with hard work and play the weight stayed down. No choice
