For the deviled eggs...mash your egg yolks in a quart Ziplock (sturdy) bag and add and mix ingredients in the bag, cut the corner off to make it a piping bag when the filling is ready.
I'm a mennonite as well and just made Easter dinner for my family. Ham with pineapple, sweet and sour meatballs, mashed potatoes, cream gravy, 3 layer jello, layered salad. Homemade Chocolate, cherry, blueberry and apple pies for dessert. For faspa I made homemade buns, paska, sweet braid and Easter sugar cookies all homemade. Jams/jelly and pickles made last summer. I was going to make deviled eggs but figured this would leave me with enough leftovers already 🤪 I love cooking for my family.
Growing up, one of my grandmother grew up Russian Mennonite & her husband was German baptist. (Similar traditions). I also married into a family with Hutterite & German Mennonite traditions. It’s always interesting to see what other mennonites consider “Mennonite” food.
My mother gives everyone in the family the same Mennonite cookbook whenever they get married. Of course, I have my favorite recipes, including the chocolate chip cookie recipe. I also love ham pot pie, which is actually in the cookbook using beef instead of ham. I love the back portion of the book with the cleaning supplies and the list of food for a barn raising!
Your table was set beautifully. You could tell that the meal was prepared with love just like your mom and your grandmother did. The kids were so cute eating, wish you had more footage of them, it is always great to watch them.
Browned butter icing on banana bread 🤯 it’s glorious! Having a great time watching your video! I wasn’t raised Mennonite, however very similar with a very faithful family with so much great food and a farming history ❤️
I am from Texas! I am a Christian, mostly German heritage and this perfectly describes our Sunday lunches after church. Well… with my mom and grandmother! I’m a crockpot kinda girl! 🤣 I knew nothing about the Mennonite culture, and still just learning as you share… but it’s appears to be incredibly similar to conservative Christian living down here in Texas. Or so it seems. Very very similar. Thank you for sharing your values!!! It is such an encouragement to keep the traditions going. ❤️
My husband’s grandmother was Mennonite and every grandchild received The Mennonite Cookbook for their wedding! It’s wonderful you are keeping the traditions alive. That cookbook is wonderful too!!
I am so glad you did this. It brought back memories when my family went to my uncles when we were young. I didn’t grow up Amish but I had an aunt and uncle who were.
I'm not Mennonite but my Grandmother was from PA and a lot of dishes were Amish and Mennonite based in their methods. Im actually adopted from Korea so that made my upbringing even more interesting. Now that I'm married I just combine what I liked as a kid with my own twist. My mother in law is also from PA so her dishes are definitely similar as well. I also enjoy making Mexican and Asian dishes. Love your videos and your cooking.
My husband would be so happy if he came home to a meal like that! We used to live in an area with Mennonite and Amish families before we moved to Germany. I miss those sweet families- the wholesome living and lifestyle was so wonderful to be around. I'm hoping that we will move back to the US one day and be able to surround ourselves with Amish and Mennonite families again!
Thank you for sharing these recipes! I’m fairly certain that my grandmother must be a Mennonite at heart, lol! We are Baptists, but we eat meals like this almost every Sunday after church! Or it might just be that she has the Mennonite cookbooks from her monthly grocery trips to Lancaster. At my church, we were lucky enough to have the Stoltsfus family who organized and prepared the entrees for our monthly fellowship meals.
“It ain’t pretty but it tastes good” is one of my mom’s favorite phrases haha. Also I’m so glad my husband does most our cooking because I hate it. 😂 Also also YES drop that preserves recipe!
My dad's father's family were Mennonites who emigrated from Switzerland to Lancaster County, PA. Being dairy farmers, meals were huge & hardy. Sundays, after church, were spent being together and eating for seemingly hours on end. Congrats on all your hard work getting this meal together for your family.
This video had me laughing! I could just feel the crazy chaos of having all burners filled n ham in the oven...and finally getting everything n everyONE to the table and moms hair is everywhere and cheeks flushed but OH the yummy meal. And yes...there is a certain pride in being able to tell your children that everything on the table comes from RIGHT here on our land! We raise our own beef, chicken, eggs, garden etc...lots of hard work but so worth it! GREAT video Megan!...Melinda...
This may be my favorite video you’ve ever done! I LOVE your cooking videos. Please keep them coming! (Don’t wear yourself out with full meals....lol....that’s a lot of expense and time...not to mention the clean up and exhaustion....but I absolutely love the Mennonite/Amish recipes
I would bring the eggs to a boil, remove from the heat, then cover them for twelve minutes. This prevents the dark sulfur ring from forming where the yolk meets the white. Fun video.
Hey, I'm a non Mennonite from Germany and I really enjoy watching your Videos. For me it's very interesting to see that pretty much of your cooking style is very close to how I grew up and still cook for my family. In fact I sometimes use brown butter for mashed potatoes and noodles. For noodles I add a clove of garlic, some cherry tomatoes and parmesan cheese. And I also knew a very similar recipy for the eggs. I add eggyolgs, mayonnaise, mustard, salt and pepper and fine chopped gherkies instand of vinegar. And I am used to cook every day fresh meals which are pretty healthy with fresh seasonal vegetables or salads. I think it is pretty much interesting to investigate those parallels. Greetings from southern Germany!
My family isn’t Mennonite, although very religious. We also had a big garden, had our own meat (usually pork and chicken) on the farm,. My mother canned a “basement full” of veggies, pickles and fruits...all kinds of good jellies. We had turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas...ham for Easter. You are a fabulous cook at a very young age!
I loved getting to see into your world and to hear of your reflections of growing up, things you loved and things you're glad are different. I appreciate your insights and all your efforts to share with us! Thank you!
You’ve inspired me to go buy some egg noodles. We had them all the time as kids, especially with stew or pot roast, but I bet it’s been 25 years since I had some egg noodles. With brown butter tonight.
I did not grow up Mennonite but my mother’s family was close to the Pennsylvania Mennonite community when she was growing up, and this is the cookbook she used in the kitchen as a kid and taught me to cook from! She gifted me my own copy when I got married and it’s one of my greatest treasures! ❤️
I grew up in Ohio very close to Holmes Co so I’m familiar with Mennonite cooking (as well as Amish) and learned to cook using so many of the traditional dishes and have learned much from a couple of Amish & Mennonite friends. However, I’m buying that cookbook 😁. I’m actually surprised I don’t already have it but at 62 yrs old and now living in FL I suppose it could have been misplaced at some point. Everything looked wonderful and I’m sure it tasted great. Btw, you boil your eggs the exact same way I do and I’ve never had a fail, AND we make our deviled eggs the exact same way. The green olives with the deviled eggs made me wonder whether or not you make egg salad with chopped green olives in it; it VERY tasty! I hope you and your had a lovely Easter 💜
Very interesting!! I grew up and currently live in PA and realized watching this, that we have the same traditions as the Mennonites....maybe I am a Mennonite at heart
I have the cookbook you are using. It was given to me by my next door neighbor who is mennonite. Two generations back my family was Amish and lived in Garden City Missouri.
I’m in southwest Ohio with roots in southern Illinois and we also cook veggies “to death!” The one and only time I’ve ever had shoofly pie was in Lancaster, PA! Loved it!!! And the only time I’ve used browned butter was with a cookie recipe. They turned out delicious. It’s definitely worth the extra step. Thank you for all the tips. We are not Mennonite, but our beliefs are pretty much the same. Love watching your channel!
Everything looked so delicious! I love those big meals and those types of dishes. Good old fashioned cooking at its best! You're a very talented young lady!
I used to go to a Mennonite farm for a week during a few summers when I was a teenager in Lancaster! The lady of the house always served bread, butter, and strawberry jelly before dinner and I loved it!
I’m Dutch and this meal looks a lot like our traditional meals. First of all we all sit at the table to eat. Mother is serving everyone a portion. Then prayer and then you can eat. We end the meal (every meal, so 3 times a day) with scripture, singing and praying/thankfullness again. A lot of people still has a vegetable garden, but I don’t. We do not use many spices in our traditional meals too. But nowadays we eat dishes from all over the world and some are very spicy (I like it!). We eat also potatoes with gravy that is made from brown butter with a little hot water. We also cook green beans (and all the veggies) until they are really soft :) we eat a lot of starches too. Bread at every lunch (and often breakfast), homemade jelly. But the pickles and deviled eggs are more for a party. We serve them when there is a lot of compagny and we serve them with chips, raw vegetables and ofcourse cheese 😁 The pie you made looks delicious. We eat a cookie or a little slice of pie when we drink coffee. Usually in the afternoon and in the evening, but very modest portions. We bicycle a lot here in our country, so although we eat a lot of starches, most people usually stay pretty slim 😊 Wish you Gods blessings in everything. Greetings from the Netherlands
Thank you for showing me how to properly roll and insert my pie. I would get so frustrated using so much flour on my countertops and then flipping it into the dish has driven me up the wall in the passed, but not anymore thanks to you!!!! 💕💕💕
I loved this video! I cook my hard boiled eggs the same way, except I only leave them in the hot water for 13 minutes so I never get a green mark. Adding a tsp of baking soda to the boiling water helps the shells come off easily.
Hi Megan! What works for me every time when I boil eggs: get the eggs in cold water, once the water boils: set a time for 12 minutes for hard boiled eggs, 9 minutes for medium hard boiled eggs and the big trick is that once the time is up put the eggs under cold running water for an extra 3 minutes: they come out perfect and peels Like a dream! Hope it helps Megan! Stay safe and blessed!
I made beet eggs and deviled eggs for Easter! Mom used to make 7 day pickles when I was growing up in Ohio. We had fruit trees and always had pies in the freezer. Mom made her own egg noodles, too! When I go back to visit family in Northern Indiana I love rhubarb pie. Mom cooked like Mennonites and Grandmother did , too. Your video brings back good memories!
I get you with the green beans. Down south we cook ours until they're mush and we put the red potatoes in with them. I can't wait to try the brown butter!!
We put brown butter with bread crumbs on cooked cauliflower. Tastes amazing. A lot of the Mennonite meals sound very German. Egg noodles with in butter roasted bread crumbs would be like "Spätzle" a Swabian Southern German delicacy. Noodles made from a relatively runny dough and then scraped off a wet wooden board or riced through a special spatzle ricer into the boiling water.
Looks delicious! I'm not mennonite but I love to collect cookbooks that are filled with true and tested recipes. The ones that have survived several generations!
my great grandmother grew up in Berks County and was Pennsylvania Dutch. Our traditional foods were a little different but always so good! great video, one of my favorites of yours
My husband was born/raised in Reading, Pa. so browned butter noodles and shoo fly pie are staples for him! He is in charge of browning the butter in the cast iron skillet! Lovely video!
You should be so proud.. you did an awesome job...cooking on that scale is always hard work. It looked so tasty... I often cook ham the same way , we are having a special meal for Easter Sunday, just the 2 of us, but its fun to do. No church for me as I'm isolating still, but I shall go to the service on line that our church does. Enjoy the special time that is Easter xx
I grew up in California and we must have two veggies at least, a carb and a meat. Love childhood memories like yours and I know many mennonites and they all love to cook.
I enjoy watching your videos! I’m a Mexican Canadian Mennonite living in Canada. We had the pleasure of trying a shoo fly pie at the “Barns at Nappanee” in Nappanee, IN. A few years ago when we were on vacation. It was delicious!
I’m Pa. Dutch from over across the river in York County born and raised here. Yes love red beet eggs. I make my deviled eggs the same way. One of my favorite pies is shoe fly pie wet bottom. Your pie look delicious and yes butter bread with jelly and ice water with meals too
This is so reminiscent of my childhood. Especially the pickles olives and deviled eggs. These meals are the best. Brown butter everything is amazing. I was always afraid of making shoo fly pie. I always enjoy watching your videos. My Grandma who passed at 98 1/2 in 2019 always had a spread. My Grandpa always was telling us to have butter bread with each meal. I would love your jelly recipes
Just bought the cookbook! There was a small Mennonite community near my home town in Kansas. Love your podcast. Love the way you dress modestly. Love your cooking. Your ethics challenge me.
My grandmother used to have a similar cookbook...the one that assumes you are already a good cook and leaves out that special ingredient or 2 lol. It was our local churches cookbook too...your video brought back some beautiful memories of my grandma in the kitchen.
I’d love the recipe for the rolls! They looked so good. I also like learning typical “mennonite meals” because they are different from how I grew up but are comfort food and surprisingly, not too difficult it seems!!
looks delicious! You can make brown butter ahead of time and store it in mason jars (in the fridge or on the counter) so there is one less thing to do for prep. I am not Mennonite, but love the hearty style of cooking. We eat a salad with every dinner, so I prep all the salad fixin's ahead of time and store them. Then I make meals based on which starch and veggies we have (usually brussels sprouts, broccoli, green beans, carrots, and beets) We try to eat lots of veggies and modest amounts of starch and protein, but we bulk up the amount of starch during planting and picking months! : )
I was waiting for you to say Shoo-Fly Pie! We always about these in Lancaster when I was growing up. When I moved to Tennessee I started making them and it was my father in law’s favorite. ❤️
This is also how we ate with family in the South, and I took cook my veggies and meat till they are truly dead, haha!!! I could taste the food as if I was there. Great job and yes cooking with love takes lots of time. I'm a mom, grandma/great grandma and it's all too tiring for me now, but I still do the holiday meals!!! It was fun seeing your gorgeous kiddos enjoying "real" food!!! We now have half meat eater, half vegetarians, and one vegan family, so it's a lot of different things to please everyone, but, that is what love looks like!!! I'm in Mi. but lived in an area that has many Amish, and when I first moved there, I would get all excited seeing the people in their buggies. I still love it!!! Have a very Blessed Easter!!!
Go Megan! My family cooked and ate like that, too, minus the noodles and shoefly pie. We aren't Mennonite, but close neighbors-Pilgrim Holiness in Western PA. We even enjoyed jelly bread growing up, but usually as breakfast and lunch on hot summer days. This video was wonderful and beautifully done. You captured the home goodness that you feel when preparing and sitting down to a family meal. I'm the youngest of 10 and enjoyed large gatherings, too. Thanks for sharing your special traditions. It's fun to see the kids' smiles. God bless your grandmother. Great job!
I was going to chime in and say that PA Dutch cooking uses a lot of celery and parsley for spice, but you beat me to it when you started the eggs, a fair bit of cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger too. My grandfather never liked onions, so grandma never used them, but her potato filling with tons of parsley was fantastic. You have to have your seven sweets and sours too. :) Lots of pickles and jams, especially chow-chow. Being from Lehigh County, Grandma always baked a dry bottom shoo-fly pie, but growing up in Lancaster, I learned to love the wet bottom too. That's a lovely shoo-fly pie. Lovely meal. You did good!
You’re making my mouth water!! My extended family are German Baptist and man I miss their cooking! After my Great Grandparents passed away everyone just kinda faded and stopped getting together :( It’s so sad because my kids can’t grow up knowing and playing with cousins the way that I did! Your meal looks delicious and you are such a beautiful soul!
Watching you prepare all that food sure made me hungry! Even after I just had supper! Thanks for sharing this video with us! I love learning about Mennonite traditions and anything food related.
I have, and love, a hardcover copy of that cookbook. Growing up near Lancaster meant enjoying all the yummy food, which has stayed with us even after moving away . Especially shoofly pie, my favorite too. Thanks for introducing new cooks to great, simple food.
I'm not Mennonite, but my family traditions are very similar....probably due to my parents both being raised in the Pennsylvania/Ohio/New Jersey region. The bread, the gravy, even the brown butter and noodles! Thanks for the memories!
my family came from Berks county PA Dutch. It's funny we have similar dishes but some different ones as well. potato filling, candied sweet potatoes, creamed corn, green beans, rolls with butter, buttered noodles, graham cracker pudding and Ham.
Mincemeat pie is awesome. It's a traditional pie in England and usually served around Christmas time. It doesn't have actual meat in it (or it shouldn't lol). It's mostly dried fruit and spices.
I really love this. Im not menonite but grew up in rural PA, and come from people with a farming background - and we share a lot of the same traditional foods/meals. Even how you said veggies are always cooked to death, ha. Love it 💗
Our traditional Sunday dinner was a roast of some sort, with all the vegies - often about seven - and gravy. Can't tell that my ancestry is from the UK can you? :) I'm from Australia. My grandparents were English on one side and Scottish on the other.
I really loved your latest video. I just love when you do cooking videos, or home style, tours around where you live... Yes I would love to see a video on your home made jelly. Happy Easter to you & yours
I'm an old mid west lady and we cook our green beans with bacon to death too. I'm going to have to try your brown butter! Everything is better with butter!
It warms this grandma’s heart to see babies eat well. Great job mom.
For the deviled eggs...mash your egg yolks in a quart Ziplock (sturdy) bag and add and mix ingredients in the bag, cut the corner off to make it a piping bag when the filling is ready.
Oh my sweetie, I think you did a great job. I just love your energy and your love for family and the Lord.
I watch your videos over naptime while I fold laundry and I can never tell if the little voices I hear are my kiddos or yours 😊❤
Yes, for the forseeable future little voices will always be in the background of my videos.
@@MeganFoxUnlocked i love it!
Same deal here!!
Your comment about cooking green beans to death 😅 that is totally truth!! My hubby says its the only way they're edible 😏
I'm a mennonite as well and just made Easter dinner for my family. Ham with pineapple, sweet and sour meatballs, mashed potatoes, cream gravy, 3 layer jello, layered salad. Homemade Chocolate, cherry, blueberry and apple pies for dessert. For faspa I made homemade buns, paska, sweet braid and Easter sugar cookies all homemade. Jams/jelly and pickles made last summer. I was going to make deviled eggs but figured this would leave me with enough leftovers already 🤪 I love cooking for my family.
delicious! 🙂
Growing up, one of my grandmother grew up Russian Mennonite & her husband was German baptist. (Similar traditions). I also married into a family with Hutterite & German Mennonite traditions.
It’s always interesting to see what other mennonites consider “Mennonite” food.
My mother gives everyone in the family the same Mennonite cookbook whenever they get married. Of course, I have my favorite recipes, including the chocolate chip cookie recipe. I also love ham pot pie, which is actually in the cookbook using beef instead of ham. I love the back portion of the book with the cleaning supplies and the list of food for a barn raising!
Your table was set beautifully. You could tell that the meal was prepared with love just like your mom and your grandmother did. The kids were so cute eating, wish you had more footage of them, it is always great to watch them.
Browned butter icing on banana bread 🤯 it’s glorious! Having a great time watching your video! I wasn’t raised Mennonite, however very similar with a very faithful family with so much great food and a farming history ❤️
I am from Texas! I am a Christian, mostly German heritage and this perfectly describes our Sunday lunches after church. Well… with my mom and grandmother! I’m a crockpot kinda girl! 🤣 I knew nothing about the Mennonite culture, and still just learning as you share… but it’s appears to be incredibly similar to conservative Christian living down here in Texas. Or so it seems. Very very similar. Thank you for sharing your values!!! It is such an encouragement to keep the traditions going. ❤️
Awee that's so sweet!! I love learning about cultures. That's why I'm here. Plus I love to learn how to cook different recipes.
My husband’s grandmother was Mennonite and every grandchild received The Mennonite Cookbook for their wedding! It’s wonderful you are keeping the traditions alive. That cookbook is wonderful too!!
I am so glad you did this. It brought back memories when my family went to my uncles when we were young.
I didn’t grow up Amish but I had an aunt and uncle who were.
Your little helpers are adorable. So good to have them involved.
I'm not Mennonite but my Grandmother was from PA and a lot of dishes were Amish and Mennonite based in their methods. Im actually adopted from Korea so that made my upbringing even more interesting. Now that I'm married I just combine what I liked as a kid with my own twist. My mother in law is also from PA so her dishes are definitely similar as well. I also enjoy making Mexican and Asian dishes.
Love your videos and your cooking.
Yes! Got to do what you like :) I love almost all styles of cooking!
My husband would be so happy if he came home to a meal like that! We used to live in an area with Mennonite and Amish families before we moved to Germany. I miss those sweet families- the wholesome living and lifestyle was so wonderful to be around. I'm hoping that we will move back to the US one day and be able to surround ourselves with Amish and Mennonite families again!
Thank you for sharing these recipes! I’m fairly certain that my grandmother must be a Mennonite at heart, lol! We are Baptists, but we eat meals like this almost every Sunday after church! Or it might just be that she has the Mennonite cookbooks from her monthly grocery trips to Lancaster. At my church, we were lucky enough to have the Stoltsfus family who organized and prepared the entrees for our monthly fellowship meals.
That’s a beautiful ham. Everything looks wonderful.
“It ain’t pretty but it tastes good” is one of my mom’s favorite phrases haha. Also I’m so glad my husband does most our cooking because I hate it. 😂 Also also YES drop that preserves recipe!
I heard "Come and eat, its hot and lots of it"....ha ha
I hope you and your family have a wonderful Easter! Thank you for sharing 💐
Thank-you! And Passover for you!
@@MeganFoxUnlocked thank you sweet friend 🌺💜
My dad's father's family were Mennonites who emigrated from Switzerland to Lancaster County, PA. Being dairy farmers, meals were huge & hardy. Sundays, after church, were spent being together and eating for seemingly hours on end. Congrats on all your hard work getting this meal together for your family.
This video had me laughing! I could just feel the crazy chaos of having all burners filled n ham in the oven...and finally getting everything n everyONE to the table and moms hair is everywhere and cheeks flushed but OH the yummy meal. And yes...there is a certain pride in being able to tell your children that everything on the table comes from RIGHT here on our land! We raise our own beef, chicken, eggs, garden etc...lots of hard work but so worth it! GREAT video Megan!...Melinda...
This may be my favorite video you’ve ever done! I LOVE your cooking videos. Please keep them coming!
(Don’t wear yourself out with full meals....lol....that’s a lot of expense and time...not to mention the clean up and exhaustion....but I absolutely love the Mennonite/Amish recipes
Great video! Everything looks amazingly delicious!! Great job! Also, your kids are just so sweet!
I would bring the eggs to a boil, remove from the heat, then cover them for twelve minutes. This prevents the dark sulfur ring from forming where the yolk meets the white. Fun video.
I boil for 8 minutes 😂 never have a ring
Hey, I'm a non Mennonite from Germany and I really enjoy watching your Videos. For me it's very interesting to see that pretty much of your cooking style is very close to how I grew up and still cook for my family. In fact I sometimes use brown butter for mashed potatoes and noodles. For noodles I add a clove of garlic, some cherry tomatoes and parmesan cheese. And I also knew a very similar recipy for the eggs. I add eggyolgs, mayonnaise, mustard, salt and pepper and fine chopped gherkies instand of vinegar. And I am used to cook every day fresh meals which are pretty healthy with fresh seasonal vegetables or salads. I think it is pretty much interesting to investigate those parallels. Greetings from southern Germany!
Everything's better with brown butter on it! Loved this video.
My family isn’t Mennonite, although very religious. We also had a big garden, had our own meat (usually pork and chicken) on the farm,. My mother canned a “basement full” of veggies, pickles and fruits...all kinds of good jellies. We had turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas...ham for Easter. You are a fabulous cook at a very young age!
My father was born and raised in Pennsylvania and we enjoyed bread butter and jelly. Brings back memories. Thank you.
I loved getting to see into your world and to hear of your reflections of growing up, things you loved and things you're glad are different. I appreciate your insights and all your efforts to share with us! Thank you!
You’ve inspired me to go buy some egg noodles. We had them all the time as kids, especially with stew or pot roast, but I bet it’s been 25 years since I had some egg noodles. With brown butter tonight.
I did not grow up Mennonite but my mother’s family was close to the Pennsylvania Mennonite community when she was growing up, and this is the cookbook she used in the kitchen as a kid and taught me to cook from! She gifted me my own copy when I got married and it’s one of my greatest treasures! ❤️
I grew up in Ohio very close to Holmes Co so I’m familiar with Mennonite cooking (as well as Amish) and learned to cook using so many of the traditional dishes and have learned much from a couple of Amish & Mennonite friends. However, I’m buying that cookbook 😁. I’m actually surprised I don’t already have it but at 62 yrs old and now living in FL I suppose it could have been misplaced at some point. Everything looked wonderful and I’m sure it tasted great. Btw, you boil your eggs the exact same way I do and I’ve never had a fail, AND we make our deviled eggs the exact same way. The green olives with the deviled eggs made me wonder whether or not you make egg salad with chopped green olives in it; it VERY tasty! I hope you and your had a lovely Easter 💜
Very interesting!! I grew up and currently live in PA and realized watching this, that we have the same traditions as the Mennonites....maybe I am a Mennonite at heart
I relate to this!!! 🤗
I have the cookbook you are using. It was given to me by my next door neighbor who is mennonite. Two generations back my family was Amish and lived in Garden City Missouri.
I was so happy to hear you mention mincemeat pie!! It's my favorite!
Yum! Mincemeat pie needs to make a comeback, like real homemade fruit cake!
I’m in southwest Ohio with roots in southern Illinois and we also cook veggies “to death!” The one and only time I’ve ever had shoofly pie was in Lancaster, PA! Loved it!!! And the only time I’ve used browned butter was with a cookie recipe. They turned out delicious. It’s definitely worth the extra step. Thank you for all the tips. We are not Mennonite, but our beliefs are pretty much the same. Love watching your channel!
Everything looked so delicious! I love those big meals and those types of dishes. Good old fashioned cooking at its best! You're a very talented young lady!
I used to go to a Mennonite farm for a week during a few summers when I was a teenager in Lancaster! The lady of the house always served bread, butter, and strawberry jelly before dinner and I loved it!
I’m Dutch and this meal looks a lot like our traditional meals. First of all we all sit at the table to eat.
Mother is serving everyone a portion. Then prayer and then you can eat. We end the meal (every meal, so 3 times a day) with scripture, singing and praying/thankfullness again. A lot of people still has a vegetable garden, but I don’t. We do not use many spices in our traditional meals too. But nowadays we eat dishes from all over the world and some are very spicy (I like it!). We eat also potatoes with gravy that is made from brown butter with a little hot water. We also cook green beans (and all the veggies) until they are really soft :) we eat a lot of starches too. Bread at every lunch (and often breakfast), homemade jelly. But the pickles and deviled eggs are more for a party. We serve them when there is a lot of compagny and we serve them with chips, raw vegetables and ofcourse cheese 😁 The pie you made looks delicious. We eat a cookie or a little slice of pie when we drink coffee. Usually in the afternoon and in the evening, but very modest portions. We bicycle a lot here in our country, so although we eat a lot of starches, most people usually stay pretty slim 😊 Wish you Gods blessings in everything. Greetings from the Netherlands
Thank you for showing me how to properly roll and insert my pie. I would get so frustrated using so much flour on my countertops and then flipping it into the dish has driven me up the wall in the passed, but not anymore thanks to you!!!! 💕💕💕
I loved this video! I cook my hard boiled eggs the same way, except I only leave them in the hot water for 13 minutes so I never get a green mark. Adding a tsp of baking soda to the boiling water helps the shells come off easily.
I love your style of cooking Ms.Megan!!❤ Fresh delicious food!! And ... BROWN BUTTER!!! YES! You rock, girl!!
Hi Megan!
What works for me every time when I boil eggs: get the eggs in cold water, once the water boils: set a time for 12 minutes for hard boiled eggs, 9 minutes for medium hard boiled eggs and the big trick is that once the time is up put the eggs under cold running water for an extra 3 minutes: they come out perfect and peels
Like a dream!
Hope it helps Megan!
Stay safe and blessed!
Everyone does their eggs so differently. I'm gonna try this if I remember!
You are so real. Love your videos
I made beet eggs and deviled eggs for Easter! Mom used to make 7 day pickles when I was growing up in Ohio. We had fruit trees and always had pies in the freezer. Mom made her own egg noodles, too! When I go back to visit family in Northern Indiana I love rhubarb pie. Mom cooked like Mennonites and Grandmother did , too. Your video brings back good memories!
I get you with the green beans. Down south we cook ours until they're mush and we put the red potatoes in with them. I can't wait to try the brown butter!!
We put brown butter with bread crumbs on cooked cauliflower. Tastes amazing. A lot of the Mennonite meals sound very German. Egg noodles with in butter roasted bread crumbs would be like "Spätzle" a Swabian Southern German delicacy. Noodles made from a relatively runny dough and then scraped off a wet wooden board or riced through a special spatzle ricer into the boiling water.
We are not Mennonite but we come from a huge southern family and have meals very similar to this! Thank you for sharing! Cannot wait to try this pie!
Looks delicious! I'm not mennonite but I love to collect cookbooks that are filled with true and tested recipes. The ones that have survived several generations!
Yes this is first published in 1950!
I have a cheesecake recipe from my mom’s 1950’s cookbook that tastes like no other!😋
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I’m German (not mennonite) and here we put brown butter on everything! I loove it! Amazing video 😊
my great grandmother grew up in Berks County and was Pennsylvania Dutch. Our traditional foods were a little different but always so good! great video, one of my favorites of yours
My husband was born/raised in Reading, Pa. so browned butter noodles and shoo fly pie are staples for him! He is in charge of browning the butter in the cast iron skillet! Lovely video!
Evonnie and her deviled egg...so precious! 😋🥚💕
You should be so proud.. you did an awesome job...cooking on that scale is always hard work. It looked so tasty... I often cook ham the same way , we are having a special meal for Easter Sunday, just the 2 of us, but its fun to do. No church for me as I'm isolating still, but I shall go to the service on line that our church does. Enjoy the special time that is Easter xx
I grew up in California and we must have two veggies at least, a carb and a meat. Love childhood memories like yours and I know many mennonites and they all love to cook.
I enjoy watching your videos! I’m a Mexican Canadian Mennonite living in Canada. We had the pleasure of trying a shoo fly pie at the “Barns at Nappanee” in Nappanee, IN. A few years ago when we were on vacation. It was delicious!
yes please to the jelly recipe xxx
I’m Pa. Dutch from over across the river in York County born and raised here. Yes love red beet eggs. I make my deviled eggs the same way. One of my favorite pies is shoe fly pie wet bottom. Your pie look delicious and yes butter bread with jelly and ice water with meals too
This is so reminiscent of my childhood. Especially the pickles olives and deviled eggs. These meals are the best. Brown butter everything is amazing. I was always afraid of making shoo fly pie. I always enjoy watching your videos. My Grandma who passed at 98 1/2 in 2019 always had a spread. My Grandpa always was telling us to have butter bread with each meal. I would love your jelly recipes
What a beautiful meal you prepared for just your own little family...Easter blessings to all of you. It’s a pleasure to watch you , Megan.
Just bought the cookbook! There was a small Mennonite community near my home town in Kansas. Love your podcast. Love the way you dress modestly. Love your cooking. Your ethics challenge me.
Ordered the cookbook and yes strawberry jelly recipe
My grandmother used to have a similar cookbook...the one that assumes you are already a good cook and leaves out that special ingredient or 2 lol. It was our local churches cookbook too...your video brought back some beautiful memories of my grandma in the kitchen.
Not sure if you dehydrate but if you do, ham jerky is good. You can grow potatoes and other veggies in grow bags.
I’d love the recipe for the rolls! They looked so good. I also like learning typical “mennonite meals” because they are different from how I grew up but are comfort food and surprisingly, not too difficult it seems!!
looks delicious! You can make brown butter ahead of time and store it in mason jars (in the fridge or on the counter) so there is one less thing to do for prep. I am not Mennonite, but love the hearty style of cooking. We eat a salad with every dinner, so I prep all the salad fixin's ahead of time and store them. Then I make meals based on which starch and veggies we have (usually brussels sprouts, broccoli, green beans, carrots, and beets) We try to eat lots of veggies and modest amounts of starch and protein, but we bulk up the amount of starch during planting and picking months! : )
Ahhh! If i tried to peel the skin off the men in the fam would flip! I love to make big fancy meals. Always stressed out but so worth it.
I was waiting for you to say Shoo-Fly Pie! We always about these in Lancaster when I was growing up. When I moved to Tennessee I started making them and it was my father in law’s favorite. ❤️
Your traditional meal looked lovely and even better to share with love and your family. Well done! X
Love it when you cook! Love your recipes!! Evonnie eating that egg was so sweet! Be blessed Megan.
I would love a video of what you do with the left over ham.
wow....thank you for taking the time to prepare and film this meal....amazing!
This is also how we ate with family in the South, and I took cook my veggies and meat till they are truly dead, haha!!! I could taste the food as if I was there. Great job and yes cooking with love takes lots of time. I'm a mom, grandma/great grandma and it's all too tiring for me now, but I still do the holiday meals!!! It was fun seeing your gorgeous kiddos enjoying "real" food!!! We now have half meat eater, half vegetarians, and one vegan family, so it's a lot of different things to please everyone, but, that is what love looks like!!! I'm in Mi. but lived in an area that has many Amish, and when I first moved there, I would get all excited seeing the people in their buggies. I still love it!!! Have a very Blessed Easter!!!
Well done, beautiful meal! The raisin cream pie is an old favorite also, not my favorite is mincemeat.
Go Megan! My family cooked and ate like that, too, minus the noodles and shoefly pie. We aren't Mennonite, but close neighbors-Pilgrim Holiness in Western PA. We even enjoyed jelly bread growing up, but usually as breakfast and lunch on hot summer days. This video was wonderful and beautifully done. You captured the home goodness that you feel when preparing and sitting down to a family meal. I'm the youngest of 10 and enjoyed large gatherings, too. Thanks for sharing your special traditions. It's fun to see the kids' smiles. God bless your grandmother. Great job!
I was going to chime in and say that PA Dutch cooking uses a lot of celery and parsley for spice, but you beat me to it when you started the eggs, a fair bit of cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger too. My grandfather never liked onions, so grandma never used them, but her potato filling with tons of parsley was fantastic. You have to have your seven sweets and sours too. :) Lots of pickles and jams, especially chow-chow. Being from Lehigh County, Grandma always baked a dry bottom shoo-fly pie, but growing up in Lancaster, I learned to love the wet bottom too. That's a lovely shoo-fly pie. Lovely meal. You did good!
This was a great video! Everything looked so delicious.
I am not Mennonite and my traditions are the same! and we will be doing this tomorrow! Happy Easter!
He has risen ~
I’m not either and we have a lot of similar traditions too!
Well
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Megan!!
You’re making my mouth water!! My extended family are German Baptist and man I miss their cooking! After my Great Grandparents passed away everyone just kinda faded and stopped getting together :( It’s so sad because my kids can’t grow up knowing and playing with cousins the way that I did! Your meal looks delicious and you are such a beautiful soul!
I love all of your recipes. Going to use them this holiday!
Watching you prepare all that food sure made me hungry! Even after I just had supper! Thanks for sharing this video with us! I love learning about Mennonite traditions and anything food related.
I have, and love, a hardcover copy of that cookbook. Growing up near Lancaster meant enjoying all the yummy food, which has stayed with us even after moving away . Especially shoofly pie, my favorite too. Thanks for introducing new cooks to great, simple food.
Loved the video Megan! All looked delicious. I'm not Mennonite but reminded me of a lot of the big family meals my Mom & Grandma used to make.
I'm not Mennonite, but my family traditions are very similar....probably due to my parents both being raised in the Pennsylvania/Ohio/New Jersey region. The bread, the gravy, even the brown butter and noodles! Thanks for the memories!
Browned butter on brussels sprouts....yum!!!!
my family came from Berks county PA Dutch. It's funny we have similar dishes but some different ones as well. potato filling, candied sweet potatoes, creamed corn, green beans, rolls with butter, buttered noodles, graham cracker pudding and Ham.
Mincemeat pie is awesome. It's a traditional pie in England and usually served around Christmas time. It doesn't have actual meat in it (or it shouldn't lol). It's mostly dried fruit and spices.
I really love this. Im not menonite but grew up in rural PA, and come from people with a farming background - and we share a lot of the same traditional foods/meals. Even how you said veggies are always cooked to death, ha. Love it 💗
We love scrambled eggs in brown butter. I make just about everything in my cast irons and it definitely makes everything taste better!
Our traditional Sunday dinner was a roast of some sort, with all the vegies - often about seven - and gravy. Can't tell that my ancestry is from the UK can you? :) I'm from Australia. My grandparents were English on one side and Scottish on the other.
🍴Great meal prep
All the food looked delicious
I really loved your latest video. I just love when you do cooking videos, or home style, tours around where you live... Yes I would love to see a video on your home made jelly. Happy Easter to you & yours
100 thumbs up for this delicious video. I 🧡💚 that you are not allergic to hard work!
I'd love the jelly recipe for sure!
You remind me of someone I know but I can’t figure out who but it makes me feel safe every time I watch you lol
I'm an old mid west lady and we cook our green beans with bacon to death too. I'm going to have to try your brown butter! Everything is better with butter!
Thank you - this explains a LOT! I understand Fellowship Meals better thanks to this! Yes, I'm a convert and no, I didn't understand all of this!