Amish Friends

[Beekissed]

I have no idea who wouldn't like pecan pie. Some strange people around here, who don't know what good, I guess.

CC, I'm 53 now and I had never tried pecan pie until last year...and found it to be kind of sweet but the pecans cut the sweetness. I found I loved it and wondered why I had never tried it all these years of church socials and family reunions.

I'd rather have it over apple pie....unless the apple pie is like my mama used to make and with a huge scoop of vanilla ice cream.

 

[wyoDreamer]

Too bad the front porch as gone away in America. That sounds amazing - but I want cherry pie and lemonaide.

Heck, I have a beautiful, screened in front porch and I never use it, except for storage, lol. I had talked my husband into buying a nice little iron table and chairs for on the porch, then he decided that we needed to move the futon out of the study and the only place for it was the 3-season porch. The table and chairs went out to the barn. Then, the spare table from study moved out to the porch. Then the 4 chairs from the camper, that we HAD to bring in for a holiday got moved out there. The Christmas tree stand, which is screwed down to a 3'x3' piece of plywood is sitting out there, ... It is never ending. Someday, soon I hope, I will claim it.

 

[CrealCritter]

Took a load of sawmill slabs over to my Amish friends so the could burn it for firewood.

I walked in the house with this cherry pie. My wife saw me and said what you got there? I said noneya!

They recently got what he calls a bakers oven. Its looks more like a stack of 4 pizza ovens that are stainless steel but rock on the inside with a large stainless steel wood box on the bottom.

They have it outside which is pretty cool for summer baking but he said the will move it inside during winter to help heat the house when fall comes.

I would have taken a picture of it but taking pictures of Amish or their possessions is like a big no no... Kind of the exact opposite of of us, with our family pictures and pictures of belongings for insurance purposes.

Edit...

Searching google their bakers oven kind of looks like this but with 4 ovens stacked on top of each other instead of one and stainless steel.
https://www.fontanaforniusa.com/products/the-gusto-wood-oven

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That looks awesome - kinda like an Amish ding-dong or something similar?

 

[flowerbug]

That's why you buy two!

i can't do that because i would eat that one too! i appreciate the ephemeral. here and gone. have to limit my quantities if i'm ever going to get my weight down. it is a continual challenge here. Mom bakes hundreds of cookies and i love cookie dough and cookies and she makes a lot of other goodies too - and if she isn't i am. i have a few bites and give away the rest. same with the cookies. one a day and that is all i can have most days. i am saving some black walnuts for when i hit 170lbs so i can make a batch of my favorite cookies. i will eat a lot of those one at a time. right now i am working my way through a bag of molasses cookies with seedless raspberry jam in the middle. that is my favorite cookie dough right in front of chocolate chip. something about the combination of fat, sugar, salt, molasses, and the goopy sticky texture, etc. just hits all the tastebuds just right and my brain lights up. lol

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Oh man ... ya'll just had to start talking about cookies huh? Don't have any cookies - but I think there's a honey bun around here somewhere. Really shouldn't do that... ugh. It's so much easier to just give in!

 

[FarmerJamie]

The Sugarcreek Ohio Amish community is about in SE Ohio, not far from the border with WV. Middlefield, near me, is about 1.5 hours away. Both are long standing large communities. My experience is there are subtle differences, based on sects, in each of these groups.

Kinda neat to learn about it.

 

[baymule]

I wish we had Amish in our neighborhood.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I'm jealous! No Amish around here (even though I do have a great neighbor on one side of me). I love bartering! And such a sweet idea to offer them some turkey poults. Fresh bread and butter does sound awesome!

 

[GettysburgGarden]

My wife has developed a relationship with Amish lady well actually 2 Amish ladies that live right next door to each other. They have 12 chickens between the two families and are always short on eggs. So they bake my wife a loaf of bread and my wife gives them 3 dozen eggs. Same arragement holds true for Amish butter a block of butter for 3 dozen eggs.

This is like the perfect arrangement... I love the fresh baked bread, and butter both are delicious. I can tell the bread was baked in a wood stove because it has just a hint of smokey flavor. The bread is so good warmed up in the toaster and spread with Amish butter and local honey.
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I'm thinking about giving them a couple of burbon red turkeys. I couldn't think of anyone better to give turkey chicks too. What a nice group of folks the Amish are. I love it when they pull up to my house in their horse and buggy, it's a really cool thing. I need to find time to spend more time with them, they can teach me so much that I would really like to learn.

I envy you.. but that was the way things worked before things got way-way to complicated.