Mennonite Recipes from the Shenandoah Valley

by Good, Phyllis Pellman; Good, Kate

• ISBN13: 9781561482337
• ISBN10: 1561482331
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Good Books

Summary

Here are hundreds of those uncommonly tasty recipes, gathered from a comforting food tradition, rooted in the old South.

Author Biography

     
     Phyllis Pellman Good is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold more than 11 million copies. Good is the author of the nationally acclaimed Fix-It and Forget-It slow-cooker cookbooks, several of which have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, as well as the bestseller lists of USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Book Sense. The series includes eight titles. The most recent are Fix-It and Forget-It Pink Cookbook, to benefit the Avon Foundation and Fix-It and Forget-It Diabetic Cookbook, Revised and Updated, with the American Diabetes Association. Good is also the author of the Fix-It and Enjoy-It series, a “cousin” series to the phenomenally successful Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbooks. Phyllis Pellman Good is Executive Editor at Good Books. (Good Books has published hundreds of titles by more than 135 authors.) She received her B.A. and M.A. in English from New York University. She and her husband, Merle, are the parents of two young-adult daughters. For a complete listing of books by Phyllis Pellman Good, as well as excerpts and reviews, visit www.Fix-ItandForget-It.com or www.GoodBooks.com.

Table of Contents

About this Cookbook	p. 3
Map of the Shenandoah Valley	p. 4
Breads, Rolls, and Muffins	p. 5
Breakfast Foods	p. 29
Soups	p. 45
Salads, Dressings, and Condiments	p. 57
Vegetables	p. 85
Main Dishes	p. 105
Desserts	p. 163
Cookies	p. 189
Cakes	p. 221
Pies	p. 249
Beverages	p. 265
Finger Foods and Snacks	p. 271
Index	p. 286
About the Authors	p. 300
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Excerpts

About This Cookbook Known for its piercing mountain ranges, its soft hilly pastures, and its Civil War secrets, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley is also home to thousands of Mennonites. When the Mennonites began to settle up and down the Valley in the mid- to late 1700s, they brought their farming skills, their orchard husbandry, their milling and small-business know-how. They also carried a food tradition to the Valley that was rooted in the farm country of Germany and of eastern Pennsylvania, those places where many of them had once lived.It proved to be a porous and adaptable food tradition, one that made room for those vegetables and fruits that grow abundantly on Shenandoah Valley soil, as well as those dishes they learned from their Southern neighbors who had also been transplanted from other lands.This collection of favorite recipes bears the flavor of what the Mennonites brought to the Valley-blended with what they learned there. It is that mix of the imported and the local, cooked side-by-side over time, that comes to define an identifiable food culture. In their most hospitable way, many Mennonite cooks from Virginia's Shenandoah Valley wrote out the recipes they've prepared for their families and guests for years-so that we might make them available here. We are grateful to all who took time to do that. A special thank you to long-time Valley resident Aunt Ellen Hartman who reminded some of the best cooks she knew to make their recipes available! Over time, the Mennonites spread the length of the Shenandoah Valley, creating small communities, opening new churches in which to worship as they went. We offer short profiles of the little towns throughout the Valley where there once were, or still are, Mennonite congregations. Here, then, is some of the flavor of the people and the countryside, as well as hundreds of uncommonly tasty recipes, gathered from a comforting food tradition, blended in the old South. - Phyllis Pellman Good - Kate Good

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