Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking

Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking Synopsis

Recipes for salads, soups, main dishes, vegetable dishes, pancakes and fritters, doughnuts, sweets and rolls, cakes, cookies, pies, desserts, and sweets and sours. First published around 1900. According to the preface. "e;In 1683 the Plain Sects began to arrive in William Penn's Colony seeking a land of peace and plenty. They were a mixed people; Moravians from Bohemia and Moravia, Mennonites from Switzerland and Holland, the Amish, the Dunkards, the Schwenkfelds, and the French Huguenots. After the lean years of clearing the land and developing their farms they established the peace and plenty they sought. These German-speaking people were originally called the Pennsylvania Deutsch but time and custom have caused them to be known to us as the Pennsylvania Dutch"e;