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Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking, by Unknown
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Title: Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking
Author: Unknown
Release Date: September 8, 2008 [EBook #26558]
Language: English
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Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking
Dutchland Pennsylvania
[Illustration: Kissin wears out ... cookin' don't]
Jacob's at the table and half et already
PROVEN RECIPES FOR TRADITIONAL PENNSYLVANIA Dutch FOODS
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PENNSYLVANIA Dutch COOKERY
In 1683 the Plain Sects began to arrive in William Penn's Colony seeking a land of peace and plenty. They were a mixed people; Moravians from Bohemia and Moravia, Mennonites from Switzerland and Holland, the Amish, the Dunkards, the Schwenkfelds, and the French Huguenots. After the lean years of clearing the land and developing their farms they established the peace and plenty they sought. These German-speaking people were originally called the Pennsylvania Deutsch but time and custom have caused them to be known to us as the Pennsylvania Dutch.
The Pennsylvania Dutch are a hard working people and as they say, "Them that works hard, eats hearty." The bl