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1 comments about Cooking with Wisdom: Wholesome, Delicious, Simple Recipes for Health Conscious People, Cooking Naturally--from the Amish Community.

1. This cookbook has so many great healthy recipes that I have not seen anyplace else. I also love the tips they have in the margins all through out the book, such as: "grating a stick of butter softens it quickly" "Potatoes will bake in a hurry if they are boiled in salted water for 10 minutes before popping into a very hot oven." and "To make granola chunky, add flour or dry milk, and water along with oil and honey."
   
   I love how this is a quality hardback book also. One of my favorites and worth the full price I paid for it at an Amish store!

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2 comments about Countryside Cooking And Chatting: Traditional Recipes And Wisdom from the Amish And Mennonites.

1. Expertly compiled by Lucy Leid, "Countryside Cooking & Chatting" is a handy spiral bound treasury of mouth-watering traditional recipes and reflective wisdom drawn from the culinary traditions of Amish and Mennonite communities. From Hot Cross Buns; Pineapple Sweet Potato Casserole; Chunky Beef Soup; Amish Macaroni Salad; and Original Amish Roast; to Grandma's Caramel Pudding; Sweet Midget Pickles; Sugar-Free Pumpkin Pie; Easy Coleslaw; and Peanut Butter Fudge, "Countryside Cooking & Chatting" is a prized and thoroughly `kitchen cook friendly' addition to the family cookbook shelf.



2. Having traveled in the Amish Country of PA numerous times, I love good farm fresh Amish food. This recipe book looks as if I can prepare many tasty meals that we are sure to enjoy over the next few months.

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2 comments about Amish Life Through a Child's Eyes.

1. Alma Hershberger has written a personal story about her families struggle to survive in a Iowan Amish community in the 1950s. Her father was hospitalized after an accident. Her mother and eight siblings struggled against climate, and prejudices. The book reminded me that families and children are the same no matter what they wear or their lifestyles. A wonderful insite into the Amish.



2. This is a darker version of "Little House on the Prairie" in which the author's father suffers a head injury when she is only four years old. He becomes increasingly disoriented and eventually has to be institutionalized. Alma Hershberger's mother is left with eight children to raise on her own.
   
   Alma's Amish family had moved to Iowa during World War II, about a year before her father was injured by a falling horse. When Alma's maternal uncle acquired control of her family's finances, he skimped on every penny, refusing to let his sister buy even the smallest treats for her children such as a watermelon or a box of Jell-o. He finally agreed to let Alma get a new pair of shoes, when it was called to his attention that she was attending church meetings barefoot in the midst of an Iowa winter.
   
   Uncle Judas is definitely the villain of this book and Alma's mother is the heroine. The first year after her husband was hospitalized, "the Amish community helped Mom and the boys farm. After the first year, it began to be old hat and help came more and more seldom." Mom took Alma's oldest brother, William out of fourth grade to help with the farm, and the family continued on its own. The only supplies that Uncle Judas would buy for them from `outside' were flour, sugar, yeast, Karo syrup, baking powder, soda, salt, oatmeal, and cornmeal. Everything else they ate came from their farm.
   
   Alma's recollections of her childhood are a fascinating look backward at what it must have been like for Iowa's nineteenth century pioneers to begin to farm the harsh Midwestern landscape, since the Amish never quite moved into the twentieth century with the rest of us.
   
   Part of Alma's family, including the author herself, left the Amish life when she was fourteen. Although this book doesn't extend that far, I would love to know why Alma left the old faith behind to start a new life.