My 5 Favorite Amish Foods

The Amish eat well. When I visit the Amish, I eat well too. Here are my 5 favorite Amish foods. Two of these are sweet/dessert foods, 2 are "non-sweet", and 1 is somewhere in-between.

What Amish foods are on YOUR list? Let me know in the comments.

I also discuss the Amish church meal, and the types of foods Amish eat at this special fellowship gathering which happens after the three-hour Amish church service. This varies in different communities, but there is a set of typical - and some quite specific - foods Amish consume at this light, quickly-eaten, but delicious lunch (I actually included 2 of them on my list).

Special thanks to viewer Cal, who suggested the idea for this video.

[dawi]

Greetings from Germany
In your videos I recognize a lot from Germany in the 50s and 60s.
It makes happy and melancholic at the same time.
Thank you for your videos.
~~
Grüße aus Deutschland
Ich erkenne in deinen Videos so vieles aus Deutschland in den 50er und 60er Jahren wieder.
Es macht einen glücklich und melancholisch zugleich.
Hab Dank für deine Videos.

[grapestheoriginal]

My mother used to make homemade donuts when I was little. She used buttermilk and they were the best I have ever eaten. She was not Amish, but I believe the receipe was handed down from her Quaker ancestry. There is nothing like food made from farm fresh ingredients.

[garymiller]

Mountain pies are made in pie irons and are wildly popular throughout Pennsylvania. You can put pretty much anything in a pie iron, for dessert pies use pie fillings.

[mrsdomino]

Didn’t see it mentioned...creamed chicken over fresh biscuits with mashed potatoes and chicken gravy. Yummy.

[GeminiPeg]

I absolutely have to get a fried pie (cherry, peach, blackberry) every time I go to Jamesport Missouri. THE BEST!

[jennifery]

Amish church peanut butter and church cheese are the best. Zucchini casserole is one of my favorites too.

[vidsbyme]

We call Mountain Pies "hobo Pies" and we make them while camping. So many options and fun.

[SGast]

I am from the area in Germany whose dialect is closest to Pennsylvania Deutsch or at least close enough that I can read and understand it. And your pronunciation of the cheese spread sounded perfect to me.
It was interesting how many of these foods were close to traditional foods we eat here while others were so very American.

[ummlittlemuslim]

They make the best summer sausage here in Ontario. We buy the all beef ones because we don't eat pork. Kichen Kuttings in St jacobs market Ontario. They have lots of jams too which i stock up on whenever I head there.

[MennoniteHomestead]

At my first church fellowship meal with the Amish, the man next to me took a piece of bread and layered unique mixture of Amish peanut butter, jam, topped off with egg salad. Being one to never shirk a cultural experience, I repeated the layers on my bread and decided that this gentlemen must not really be able to taste much anymore.

[peoplenoodlesoup]

Haha yes lancaster county-gotta watch out. They will actually buy pie crusts around here. They don’t always make their own. We got SOME cheating Amish 😂 but I must say they keep the area gorgeous! My husbands last name
Is Yoder, and family history is a lot of Amish. A woman in his family line made a book, “Mennonite community cookbook” love that book. So many great recipes from Amish/Mennonite families.

[fyrekrystaal]

I have always called them pie irons or campfire irons. In my area they can be found at Menards and Mills Fleet Farm.

[gerhard]

The only "Shoofly" I am aware of... We spray on the horses during the Summer months! 🐎 And those toasted sandwiches look scrumptious, just add some roasted bacon 🥓 hmmm 🇬🇧

[Mclag]

I have an Amish grocery store about 45 minutes away. I always stop by when I'm in the area. They have a bakery which has Amish made bread, cookies, pies, etc. It's Amazing

[michealfigueroa]

"Mountain pie" reminded me of the value of community Thanks

[curiousman]

Campfire pies. Been making them since I was a wee lad. Have 3 pie irons myself.

[jobennett]

I was in Bird in Hand, Lancaster County last week. Had ShooFly and Whoopi Pie.
Beautiful country. If you live there, you are blessed.

[jimkendall]

Greetings from Australia. Enjoying this series very much. My family had "mountain pie" irons when I was growing up. I currently have 2 irons. One is a double. Most of my friends also have them. However we have always known them as "jaffles". They can be made sweet or savoury. So I have two "Jaffle Irons". Isn't humanity strange. The more we appear to be different the more we seem to be so similar.

[MTB]

I went to the Amish country in Lancaster when I was a kid. I remember shortly pie but not the others. And Whoopi pie too.

[janissteiner]

The homemade strawberry pie by Amish in Author, IL is the best..worth every calorie!!