Cooking & Baking
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I was watching cooking videos on YouTube and somehow went down a rabbit hole of Amish and Mennonite cooking. Even though I live in Pennsylvania, the only thing I knew about Amish cookery was pie. And there was pie. Also cake, bread, doughnuts, casseroles, sugar, sour cream, butter, potatoes, more sugar, mayonnaise, and pretty much anything anyone regards as unhealthy. Even the salads contained unholy amounts of bacon and cheese.
It all somehow looked very familiar. It registered with me that much of what they were cooking was the cuisine of my childhood. Sixty years ago, potatoes, sour cream, cheese, and cream of chicken soup baked in a casserole was not just something you did, but would have been regarded as pretty fancy.
mopinko
(69,804 posts)i remember one was cheeses, and another was a sandwich joint.
i remember thinking- they make this stuff w/o electricity? rly?
i'm assuming they hired others to run the stand for them. they were dressed as amish, but...
spinbaby
(15,073 posts)I frequent a Mennonite store and they dress more or less like the Amish, but drive and use electricity. Also, Ive been told the Amish are fine with other people driving them and with working in a place with electricity.
Freddie
(9,231 posts)Like using solar powered batteries to charge their cell phones. Theyre fine with riding in cars, just dont drive them.
Warpy
(110,900 posts)They won't wire their houses, but they'll run power tools off a generator in their woodworking workshops. Women are still washing clothes by hand under kerosene lamps.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)ahem. It was good, but slightly bland. I've seen recipes on youtube that look pretty good. I ought to venture out more.