Pennsylvania Dutch Seasonal Recipes

"How pretty is this? Give as a gift, share comfort food or give to someone going on a camping trip!!!! Starting the New Year with Herbs and Grains! This brings much luck and never to go hungry and always wanting to share with those in need or want. I make 12 pint jars and give for Christmas gifts. Oh So So so perrrfect for the cold weather to come........................."

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Ingredients: dry lentils, alphabet pasta...

"This is my rendition of a recipe found in Bon Appetit (July 2008). A sweet-savory sauce that's great with any grilled meats. (I use on my baby back ribs and they are always the first to go! Adjust the heat by adding hot pepper sauce to taste."

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Ingredients: cherry preserves, cola...

"Great served for the Fourth of July for a true American treat! A whoopie pie, sometimes alternatively called a gob or a black-and-whitie, is a baked good traditional to the Pennsylvania Dutch culture as well as New England, made of two small, chocolate, disk-shaped cakes with a sweet, creamy frosting sandwiched between them. I came up with this..."

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Ingredients: cream of tartar, dutch process cocoa...

"An easy potato salad that has a zingy sauce and always gets recipe requests."

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Ingredients: cider vinegar, instant minced onion...

"I learned this recipe from an old friend's mother about 15 years ago. I was over for supper one night and this is what she made. I fell in love with the recipe and had to have it. I have put my own spin on things to perfect this basic winter recipe. (Unfortunately for me, I recently became a vegan...but my family eats it up!) It's delicious!"

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Ingredients: fresh rosemary, olive oil...

"Sweet and creamy cooked dressing on a beautiful old fashioned salad. From a 1960 cookbook "Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking". I usually peel the apples and omit the nuts."

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Ingredients: dry mustard, hard-boiled eggs...

"I was in a search for a great cocoa mix that tasted very similar to the store bought kind. I tried a couple of recipes but they just weren't it. So, I combined a few of them together and came up with this! My family just thinks it is fabulous. You can substitute different flavors of pudding but we find Chocolate fudge works the best!"

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Ingredients: instant chocolate fudge pudding, non-dairy coffee creamer...

"Pressure cooker recipe for Chicken and Dumplings. Very easy to modify to stove top cooking. This has become a family favorite, and is requested over Grandma's Pennsylvania Dutch recipe (shhhh)."

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Ingredients: chives, nonfat milk, pepper...

"I have not yet made this recipe, and can't remember where I found it, but wanted to post it before I lose it. I can't wait until the weather cools off so that I can try it. Lots of yummy flavors in this one!"

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Ingredients: pepper, cream of chicken soup...

"I came up with this simple spring salad when my garden gave me a bunch of arugula coming up from last years seeds. Then at Trader Joe's was French green beans right from France. And fresh strawberries................. I added spring scallions and my fabulous dill mustard dressing made with my Recipe #53926 giving this dressing a what is that flavor?..."

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Ingredients: Grey Poupon, baby greens...

"Passed down from PA Dutch decendents. Perfect for summer evenings."

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Ingredients: eggs, fresh blackberries, milk...