It's Recipe Time!
Hungry? Here are a couple of recipes from another one of my Amish cookbooks, Country Lane Cooking from the Hershberger Family. I picked this up in Holmes County last year when my husband and I were celebrating our 15th anniversary (can you tell we like to celebrate our anniversaries in Amish Country? 
). Enjoy!
Surprise Cabbage Salad
2 pkgs (3 oz.) lime Jell-O
2 pkgs. (3 oz.) lemon Jell-O
Dissolve in 4 c. hot water. Add 2 cups miniature marshmallows, stir until dissolved. Add 2 c. pineapple juice and 2 cups crushed pineapple, 1 T. salad dressing (Miracle Whip), and 3 c. shredded cabbage. Let staned until it begins to congeal. Then add 2 c. whipped cream and nuts. Refrigerate until set. --Mrs. Henry (Emma) Troyer
Cookout Beans
Note: The cooking directions weren't included in this recipe, so I'm adding my own. Combine ingredients in a dutch oven and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until heated through. You can also simmer the beans over the stove.
3 qt. pork and beans
1 can kidney beans
1 can butter beans
1 pt. green beans
1 can pineapple tidbits
1 1/2 lb. bacon plus grease (me: OH MY!)
1 pt. catsup
2 c. brown sugar
1 T. mustard
Combine ingredients, bake in oven or cook over an open fire. Delicious!-- Mrs. Ella Hershberger
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Cookout beans: My eyes are in disbelief about the grease!!!
Looing forward to reading the comments of the finished product!
Thanks for sharing the recipes
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I know--the grease is rather frightening! I'm going to try them but cut out the grease and slow down on the bacon. The cabbage one sounded interesting too, and different.
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Good Evening Kathy, The receipes sound great.. Maybe, I'll take the salad to our picnic this weekend.. Heavens, No, we don't need all that grease... But, I thingk the Amish do use a lot of grease in a lot of their cooking, don't they?
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Hi Rose,
I have noticed that in Amish recipes no one worries about the butter, sugar, grease, lard, or velveeta content too much. But their lifestyle is so active with all the manual labor, walking and riding bicycles and scooters, and working in the yard as much as they can that they burn the calories off. Even if I didn't need to watch my weight, I could never use that much grease in a recipe. Then again, its probably a good idea that I don't know how much butter and grease my favorite restaurants use in their cooking.
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Thank you for sharing these recipes.
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