Pennsylvania Dutch Recipes

"Beef roast"

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Ingredients: pepper, garlic powder, oregano...

"My grandmother used to make these for me as a child, and as strange as they may sound, they are wonderful!!! A good way to 'sneak' in a vegetable for kids!"

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Ingredients: creamy peanut butter, cucumbers...

""Several people have asked how to make traditional clear toy candy. It is so simple that anyone can do it, but remember it is dangerous so no small children please. You will need: a pan, a candy thermometer, clear corn syrup, sugar, and water. No flavoring please - that is why it has a unique flavor. You may also add a small amount of red food..."

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Ingredients: corn syrup, sugar, water...

"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...

"Just as easy as plain ones to make. Superb doughnuts."

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Ingredients: cooking oil, eggs...

"This is an old standby in Pensylvania Dutch country! To use as a stuffing, increase bread to 6 slices and add 2 beaten eggs."

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Ingredients: onions, potatoes...

"Another recipe from the 1980 version of the Grace Evangelical Congregational Church cookbook from Muir, Pennsylvania that was given to me by my Nana when I became an adult. This recipe was submitted to the cookbook by Ida Unger. So many of the recipes in the cookbook didn't specify serving yield. So, I am guessing on it for this recipe. Let"

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

"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...

"Here's another recipe that no one on this web site seems to have heard of, but I'm sure probably know another name for it. I think it's delicious! Hope you like it!!:)"

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Ingredients: dry curd cottage cheese, eggs...

"If you like molasses, you will love this rich, moist cake. The recipe comes from a Pennsylvania Dutch restauranteur named Betty Groff and is published in an old book by her called Good Earth and Country Cooking."

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Ingredients: granulated sugar, light brown sugar...

"These squares are so popular in our N. E. Pa. area and are often requested for bake sales. At times more flour, little at a time, may have to be added to make it easier to roll without the dough falling apart. It is a very forgiving dough, though. If you seem to have extra filling left over it may be used to make small tarts using pie crust dough."

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Ingredients: crushed pineapple, eggs...