Welcome to this joint blog published by the Mennonite Heritage Center, the Goschenhoppen Historians, and the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center.
Each week we will be offering articles, recipes, helpful tips and more relating to our Pennsylvania Dutch heritage and presence in contemporary life. Be sure to subscribe, so you receive new posts by email!
In this unprecedented time of staying at home, we hope you’ll be inspired to bring pieces of the past to your present through Pennsylvania Dutch cooking, gardening, and crafts.
Potatoes: The Dutchman’s Caviar
By Bob Wood. Title photo: Long rows of potatoes on the Wallace Moyer farm, Blooming Glen, Bucks County, 1931. Mennonite Heritage Center Collection. It seems that in the old days the Dutchmen lived on pork, cornmeal, and potatoes, with sometimes all three in the same recipe. In the folk-culture, the omnipresent potato was, and stillContinue reading “Potatoes: The Dutchman’s Caviar”
Apples, Apple Butter and Schnitz
By Sarah Heffner. Title image: Cooking apple butter, circa 1905. Photo by H. Winslow Fegley; Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center Collection. Living off the land Apples were one of the earliest horticultural crops grown in Pennsylvania by European settlers. An orchard of one to six acres was planted on each homestead as soon as landContinue reading “Apples, Apple Butter and Schnitz”
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