2 comments about Cookbook From Amish Kitchens: Soups (Cookbooks from Amish Kitchens).

1. Excellent in all phases: description was the selling point for me for my soup-loving gift recipient. It was all it claimed to be, shipped and received timely and in excellent condition.



2. I have all of these adorable little 'Cook Books from Amish Kitchens', and have really enjoyed them. The are very small and simple... the complete opposite of a coffee-table/display-style cookbooks we see most often today. This is a thin pamphlet with matte paper and does not include interior photos of any recipes (excluding the cover). The text is in a handwritten-style font and clearly explained. The recipes are very homey with basic ingredients and techniques; nothing fancy. Simple, delicious recipes in a simple, small booklet. RECOMMENDED.

5 comments about The Amish Cook: Recollections and Recipes from an Old Order Amish Family.

1. If you are a fan, as I am, of the weekly Amish Cook newspaper column, this is a must-have for you. There are stories and tidbits of the column and daily life, as well as the recipes. If you like "The Amish Cook," stories about Amish life, or Amish recipes, this book has you covered x 3!! Get it! You'll love it!!!



2. This book is amazing to read just the stories alone get you hooked let alone the delicious recipes. I would reccomend this book to anyone.



3. I checked out this book from the library and after reading most of it, I decided I had to have my very own copy so I purchased one on Amazon the very next day. It is a wonderful explanation of how the Amish got their name, how they arrived in PA and there are many delicious recipes, too many to copy. I can't wait to try them as I love to cook from scratch. I purchase Amish food often and was pleased to find these recipes. The recipes consist of everyday ingredients most have on hand. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to eat well. The little stories are wonderful too.



4. These recipes are great in this book, and the best thing about these recipes is that you do not have to go to a specialty store to find the ingredients. Everything in this book you will probably already have in your pantry, and everything in this book is wonderfully flavored. The recipes are for a large group of people, so if you make a recipe make sure to have a lot of people ready to eat. There are some really interesting stories about the cook and her family in the book too. Well worth the money!



5. This cookbook has wonderful recipes from the Amish but it is much more.
   It reads like a diary of Elizabeth Coblentz's life as an Amish wife, mother, and grandmother. Very interesting details like how she used to make 9 loaves of bread every week and would have them coming out of the oven when her 8 children came home from school. She takes the reader along on a wonderful read of the Amish life; quilting, canning, church, gardening, and much more.

5 comments about From Amish And Mennonite Kitchens.

1. I love this cookbook! It has simple, delicious recipes presented in an easy to read format. A plethora of hearty dishes awaits you, including a great section on soups. There is even a recipe for homeade root beer! I would recommend this cook book for anyone who likes classic American dishes and desserts made with easy to find ingredients.



2. This is a great cookbook. It reminds me of the home-style cooking in my mother's 1950's Betty Crocker cookbook. The recipes are not fancy and stylish...they are homey and comforting.



3. This is by far the best Amish cookbook I have come across.Plain and simple recipes that are easy to make and are delicious.A lot of them can also be made in a "lighter version" as I have done.



4. This book contains a multitude of hearty old-timey family dishes. This food is very earthy and perfect for our family's wintertime menus. The recipes are very easy to follow and concoct so this book is just as good for beginners as for advanced cooks. Everything that I have tried so far has turned out stunningly well and will become a regular part of our menu plans.



5. I've used this cookbook often and just ordered a copy to send to my Mom because she liked mine so much.

5 comments about Mennonite Community Cookbook: Favorite Family Recipes.

1. I acknowledge the Madman's points: most of the recipes in this book do not conform to today's dietary standards. But bear in mind that this book was first written over 70 years ago. That's when my mother got her copy. She still has it with the cover's half-torn off and pages stuck in loose and scribbled on. This was a Pennsylvania Dutch housewife's book of recipes for Pennsylvania Dutch housewives. They weren't worried about waistlines or BMI numbers. They needed to feed their families who worked in the fields or guests over for a holiday feast.
   
   I also agree that the strength is the desert section, but that is the specialty of the PA Dutch. My brother, sister, and I would spend winter days with mother making cookies from the recipes and I even took a turn at making the cream puff recipe once for a church social. They turned out great!
   
   Not only is this a wonderful recipe book, but to me, it is a family treasure.



2. The Mennonite Community Cookbook is a major compilation of eleven hundred recipes drawn from Mennonite cookbooks and updated with standard measurements and directions but otherwise unaltered. These simple yet flavorful dishes were contributed by Mennonite families all over the United States and Canada, and include such offerings as Old-Fashioned Bean Soup, Salmon Roll with Egg Sauce, Toasted Spice Cake, and Baked Stuffed Turnips. Each recipe is quite short, yet the instructions are crystal clear and easy for cooks of all skill and experience levels to follow. The Mennonite Community Cookbook is a simply superb repository of old country flavor and culinary creations that have weathered the test of time.



3. I grew up in a Mennonite home and many of these foods, I've given this to cookbook to many of my friends and extended family members. Some really great dishes, try the graham cracker fluff it's a favorite at our house.



4. The recipes in this book are for farmers, who are cold all winter and hot all summer, so they are hearty and filling. However, if you are trying to cook light, they are easily modifiable. Use ground turkey instead of ground beef or sausage. Use turkey sausage instead of pork sausage, etc. You can often substitute canola oil for butter. You really only need to use shortening or lard when it effects the consistency, like in pie crust. Even made as they are written, these recipes are much healthier than the average fast food or restaraunt meal. They are also healthier than the average prepared meal out of the grocery store freezer. They are meant to be served up with heaping helpings of fresh vegetables. Some are great simple fare to serve up when you don't have time to cook. I find that the farmer's summer supper (a mixture of torn bread, fresh fruit and fresh milk) is great on hot summer nights when its too hot to turn on the oven and heat up the kitchen. I have used the sour milk griddle cake recipe for decades (substitute buttermilk if the idea of using sour milk bothers you, or sour fresh milk with a tablespoon of vinegar). Recently, I have gotten totally hooked on the buckwheat pancake recipe. I love the cornbread recipe, and I often make it by substituting a can of creamed corn for the milk. Its much healthier than eating store bought bread, with whole grain and vegetables both in the same bread.



5. My wife asked me to find another copy of the "Mennonite Community Cookbook" to give to my daughter so she wouldn't have to take ours. I don't want my wife to be without this cookbook, so was happy that Amazon carried it :-)
   
   As several of the other reviewers point out, the recipes included in this cookbook are not low anything (insert Fat, Salt, Sugar, Carb, other unhealthy item, etc). That being said, they can generally be adapted by a good cook to be more healthy by substituting alternative ingredients.
   
   This book gets a lot use in our house and I, as a recipient of the excellent meals that result, highly recommend it!

5 comments about Amish Friends Cookbook.

1. I was very surprised by how much the Amish people depend on canned condensed soup for their recipes. I was expecting a cookbook that would have recipes to make many things from "scratch," but that is not the case. Also, I love shoefly pie, but the only recipe for it makes four pies. I don't need to make four pies at once.



2. I purchased a copy of this cookbook for myself & immediately fell in love with it. Everyone who saw mine wanted one for themselves. Guess what they will be getting as part of their Christmas gifts? Not only is it full of outstanding recipes, but it also shares cultural information of the Amish principles and way of life. This is an excellent choice for anyone who cooks.



3. Good fun Amish Cookbook. Bought as a gift for my wife, she was pleased.



4. This is truely worth buying! These recipes are truly delicious and simple to make! Yummy! Excellent work from Ms. Brunstetter!



5. This cookbook has beautiful photography of Amish life and is well organized (recipes are easy to read with one on each page). There are nice quotes and words of wisdom scattered throughout. There are a lot of recipes for jams and pickled things however, and I would have liked to see more entrees.

5 comments about Cooking from Quilt Country : Hearty Recipes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens.

1. book received in great shape and took less then four days to receive



2. COOKING FROM QUILT COUNTRY is a pleasure to read. The title comes from the fact that Amish and Mennonite people are famous for their quilt making skills.
   
   This book gives a little background of the Mennonite and Amish sects and how they came into existence. The roots of the two groups originated with the Protestant Reformation and the Swiss Anabaptist movement. The leader was a Dutch priest by the name of Menno Simons.
   
   This very informative book is filled with wonderful recipes and many photographs. Because the Mennonites and Amish have traditionally been farmers, they're also known for their wonderful foods. There are recipes for everyone here, but I was especially interested in the different vegetable dishes that are presented.



3. The recipes are hearty and filling, taste and look great too. My husband raves each time something new comes from this book!



4. What can I say I'm perpetually busy with three small boys and cooking always seems to allude me culminating in constant eating out.
   
   I have several cookbooks, either the kids won't eat the recipes I make, they taste awful, or it's to expensive with all the ingredients.
   
   This book is an absolute jem for the mother who needs to be able to fix a simple meal, quickly, and without all the ingredient fuss. Most of the recipes in here call for flour, butter, oil, lard, sugar. You know your basic staples.
   
   My kids love these recipes. The apples I made in brown sugar, fantastic. Tastes just like Cracker Barrels. I also like the fact that when your cooking this way the preservatives are at a absolute minimum, which is great.
   
   For those of you who commented on how healthy this book is please look into your history books or pictures of your grandparents. You can't find the fat person. I've been to several countries and America is by far the fattest. The other countries all lacked skim milk, low fat this, fat free this, and corn syrup in everything.
   
   I am by the way overweight and haven't gained a pound from this book. Moderation my dear. I've actually lost weight. Great book, I highly recommend.



5. We easily found what we were looking for, ordered it and received it in a timely fashing.

5 comments about The Amish Cook at Home: Simple Pleasures of Food, Family, and Faith.

1. This book reminds me about all the beauty that can be found in the simple things that we so often take for granted in our modern age. From something as benign as a eating a meal on the back porch to making a snowman or a snow angel to running around barefoot in the dirt, this book gingerly addresses life's little, sometimes dismissed, treasures. A gem of a book that provides a brief window into the veiled lives of old-order Amish. And the recipes are delicious, as are almost all Amish recipes! Definitely worth purchasing.



2. I bought this book as a gift for my wife. She loves to cook and grows most of her own vegetables. She is also very fussy. She loves the book. She likes the layout and pictures and says there are some very good recipes.



3. This is a nice book about the Amish people full of interesting information. It should not have been sold as a cookbook however. The recipes are not what I expected



4. The book was delivered quickly, and arrived in great shape. I look forward to buying from seller again.



5. Received cookbook within a week of ordering and enjoyed the Amish history included with the cookbook.

5 comments about House Calls and Hitching Posts.

1. This was a wonderful book . Once I started reading it I could not put it down. It is amazing to realize that there are still Dr.'s out in the world that care so much for their patients.



2. If you are interested in Amish culture, this is a great book to read to get a snapshot of what types of challenges, ethical and medical, on a typical Amish farm. The writing style is easy to follow and very descriptive. The Amish people have such a strong faith and are very family oriented which is a refreshing change to read. If you are a nurse or a physician, you would really appreciate the ingenuity that is needed when dealing with blunt force trauma from a farming accident or just the challenge of getting to someone's rural home in 6 feet of snow.



3. I've always been interested in the Amish People and this book is good learning for anyone who is interested in the Amish. I've read this book 2 times already and I hope there will be a sequel.



4. This is an excellent book. I have recommended it to one of my colleagues who is a recognized authority on the history of medicine. Dr. Lehman comes across as a realist and a caring professional. His practice is/was heavy on births and traumatic farm injuries. While there are many examples of these in the text, they never become tedious.
   
   The book also gives a warm glimpse into the lives of the Amish people and their lifestyle and beliefs. One enlightening incident involved an elderly farm woman who had sustained a stroke at home in bed. Her husband sent for the doctor. Dr. Lehman recognized that the woman had little time left. The husband asks, "Is there anything the hospital could do for her that we can't do here?" The answer came back, "Essentially 'No." The woman passed away a few hours later in familiar surroundings, in her own bed, with her family and friends at her bedside. All of us readers can only hope for so peaceful an ending ourselves.



5. VERY GOOD STORY OF A COUNRTY DOCTOR-THE AMISH CUMMUNITY-HIS MANY HOUSE CALLS AND THE GREAT NUMBER OF BABIES HE DELIVERED OVER HIS YEARS OF BEING A DOCTOR-A VERY DEDICATED AND HONORED DOCTOR-GREAT READING

5 comments about The Beverly Lewis Amish Heritage Cookbook.

1. Not much out of the way from a lot of other cookbooks but has some good standards and lots of nice little quotes.



2. This cookbook is great and has simple recipes and they do not take up your time. The recipes are not for large family. You can make it as it calls for or you can double it. I like this. These are great recipes. Way to go Beverly Lewis. I also like how she gives tips for some the recipes.



3. This is a great cookbook that also shares the life of the Amish. My daughter has read almost everything that Beverly Lewis has written and is really enjoying this cookbook.



4. Readers with even a passing interest in Christian fiction will automatically connect prolific author Beverly Lewis' name with book covers featuring modestly clad, bonneted Amish women. While also an accomplished children's author her series of fictional tales from the Plain community are those that have captivated the hearts of her loyal audience nation-wide.
   
   Filling her pages with the rich, food-centric culture of Amish life - particularly for the womenfolk - Lewis would seem the perfect "Englisher" to tackle assembling The Beverly Lewis Amish Heritage Cookbook, drawing from the culinary tradition that she has researched for use in her novels. What casual readers may not realize, as I myself did not, is that Lewis' own maternal grandmother was raised in the Plain community. This daughter of Old Order Mennonite's left her roots in order to marry a young man called to ministry in the world beyond their sheltered community.
   
   Ada Buchwalter's life became the inspiration for some of Lewis' work, her talent in the kitchen and handed-down recipes forming the basis of this cookbook. Along with recipes from Beverly's family -- her grandmother, mother, aunts, siblings and daughter - Lewis called upon a plethora of talented cooks living in Amish communities. The result is a combination of cultural cookbook and family memorabilia. Lewis shares her remembrances of traditional recipes from her family in the "Note from Bev" section that occasionally follows a recipe, providing a selection of memories, serving suggestions, personal comments on flavour, and such.
   
   Each major section: "Appetizers and Beverages", "Breakfast Specialty Dishes", "Breads", Salads and Salad Dressings" and so on, opens with a quote from one of Lewis' novels. These quotations are always taken from a food-related scene in which an item from the relevant category plays a part. Better still, Lewis' fans will be thrilled to find that some of the intriguing foods described in the novels are given recipes in the cookbook. Whether it's "Old-Time Lemonade" from The Betrayal, "Cornmeal Mush" from The Postcard, "Cottage Cheese and Pepper Salad" from The Covenant, or one of many others - the opportunity to take a trip through the culinary landscape of Lewis' novels is a unique treat.
   
   The Beverly Lewis Amish Heritage Cookbook draws heavily from modern Amish cooking practices rather than those you'd think of in a book including "heritage" in its title. The majority of the entries do include some form of prepared short cut, and even those older recipes passed down through Beverly's family have been modified for modern cooks. Those mainly interested in "from scratch" recipes are likely to suffer from some disappointment. One of the most striking examples is the traditional sourdough friendship bread recipe that calls for a box of instant pudding. Some of the recipes call for regional ingredients - those living outside of territories traditionally associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch may find themselves improvising and substituting. Thankfully recommended substitutes and brands are provided in many cases.
   
   It's refreshing to read a cookbook with recipes that still incorporate cream, butter, lard, and shortening. The Beverly Lewis Amish Heritage Cookbook is certainly traditional in respect to the amount of rich, creamy goodness and sweet treats packed between its pages. And with five of 13 sections relating to desserts such as puddings, cakes, pies, cookies, and a generous listing of jello dishes in the salad section, those with a taste for the sweet things of live will be well-satisfied.
   
   Most charming of all are the favourite Bible passages, commonly quoted wisdom, and domestic tips included on nearly every page. Reflecting the simple life and humility aimed for by these hard-working folk, such tidbits of knowledge contribute strongly to the theme. Practically fitted with a lay-flat, plastic comb binding, cooks ranging from novice to expert will find this companion easy to work with in the kitchen.



5. This book provides me with the Amish Friendship Bread Starter, to me this is important. I have starter now and love to bake the bread, but will be moving and will have to use all my starter, now I can begin again. I also, love the variety of good home cooking recipes.

5 comments about More-With-Less Cookbook.

1. This book was bought as a replacement for one we had years ago.
   It has always been a family favorite.



2. My parents got this cookbook many many years ago, and when I moved into my first apartment, they got me a copy. This is the cookbook I got to for all the recipes I actually USE- whole wheat bread, potato soup, and others. Though its written by Mennonites, and the introduction is all about the mission of the cookbook, I just plain like the recipes. I find them practical, simple and the kind of hearty, comfortable, home cooking (but HEALTHY) everyone craves. Also, the recipes rarely call for ingredients you can't get in your local grocery store.
   
   to sum up: Practical, my go-to cookbook, and something I would recommend for everyone.



3. I believe the recipe should have been tested by more than one cook.Everybody taste are different.The true idea is there. we do need to get back to basic of real family value and cooking.



4. Excellent. I love the philosophy behind it, and it is good, basic, comfort food worth serving your family. I don't usually buy cookbooks, but I am glad I got this one!



5. This is a great cookbook. It shows how to make even basic things like ketchup and pancake syrup that you would normally have to buy for recipes. This is well worth the money.