Book Information: The Amish Cook’s Baking Book

The Amish Cook's Baking BookThe Amish Cook’s Baking Book

by Lovina Eicher, Kevin Williams

Price: $29.99
ISBN-13: 978-0-7407-8547-4
ISBN-10: 0-7407-8547-8
Format: Hardcover
Size: 10 x 9 in.
Page Count: 224 pages

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The Amish Cook's Baking Book“The big, colorful cookbook with more than 100 recipes is by Lovina Eicher, who writes the syndicated newspaper column “The Amish Cook.” She is a member of The Old Order Amish, who dress plainly, use horse and buggy for transportation and typically do not have electricity or phones in their homes. Lovina lives with her husband and eight children in Michigan. Like her column, the cookbook is more than a collection of recipes; its pages also tell a remarkable story about the simplicity of life among the Amish, their devotion to family and faith, and their great love of baking. It is a practical cookbook, but one with beautiful images of food and unusual photographs of the bakers: Little hands dusting fry pies with powdered sugar, others frosting big cookies. Bigger hands working an egg beater and rolling out dough. You’ll see no faces — something the Amish do not allow to be photographed.” ––BND.com http://bit.ly/cYG6Rb

“While The Amish Cook at Home was more of a peek into the Amish world and culture through food, The Amish Cook’s Baking Book focuses a bit closer on the recipes, although there are still plenty of enjoyable stories about the Amish way of baking and Lovina’s own personal stories as well. … With this next installment in the series, Lovina has truly outdone herself, bringing a huge sampling of wonderful looking Amish baking recipes. … For someone who loves to bake, this is a treasure trove of delicious recipes. … The Amish Cook’s Baking Book would make an excellent gift for any home baker, especially one interested in Amish foods. Recommended” ––Lavender Blue http://heatherfeather-lavenderblue.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookbook-review-baking-with-amish-cook.html

The Amish Cook’s Baking Book by Lovina Eicher is a book that brings us back in time. … Lovina’s wonderful baking book is a perfect cookbook for our revived interest in home cooking. It is filled with over 100 recipes for delicious Amish home baked goodies. … I love this book. It will be a well used part of my cookbook library for many years to come.” ––Cooking Nook http://www.cookingnook.com/amish-cooks-baking-book.html

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The Amish Cook’s Baking Book

The Amish Cook's Baking BookBring Home a Taste of Amish Baking

For most of us, the smell of homemade bread baking in the oven is a luxury, one made unaffordable by hectic schedules in a fast-paced world. But for the Amish, baking is a necessity and enjoyment of everyday life. This dedication to live simply and unchanged by time is why millions visit Amish country each year. That, and the food!

Lovina Eicher, celebrated cook and author of The Amish Cook at Home, offers a slow-paced journey through this delicious world of Amish baking in her latest offering, The Amish Cook’s Baking Book (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $29.99).

The book is filled with more than 100 recipes for cakes, cookies, pies, breads, brownies, and bars, all made from scratch, using tools and techniques that have been passed down through generations. The 80 beautiful photographs, sidebars from Lovina’s children, and interesting insights into Amish life, both in and outside the kitchen, make this book a journey into authentic Amish baking, the kind found only if you stray from the main routes and explore the back roads and communities.

As the “eat local” and slow food movements continue to grow, The Amish Cook’s Baking Book brings the soothing simplicity of using seasonal and local ingredients to make delicious, back-to-basics baked goods.

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About Lovina Eicher and Kevin Williams

cookies About Lovina Eicher and Kevin WilliamsTogether with editor Kevin Williams, Elizabeth Coblentz founded “The Amish Cook” newspaper column and later coauthored the column’s namesake inaugural cookbook. Today, Lovina Eicher, Elizabeth’s daughter, pens the column that continues to share Amish culture, tradition, and recipes with a nationally syndicated audience of more than 130 newspapers throughout the United States. Lovina lives in Michigan with her husband, Joe, and their eight children. Kevin lives in Ohio.

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Shoofly Pie

35 shoofly pie Shoofly PieFrom The Amish Cook’s Baking Book

There are many baked goods that the Amish are credited with concocting or co-opting: elephants ears, funnel cakes, and Soft Pretzels (see page 78), to name a few. But perhaps the baked good with the single most Amish identity is shoofly pie. Long before Dinah Shore immortalized the molasses morass in her famous song, the Amish were enjoying this pie. The origins of this pie’s unusual name have been debated by food historians for the better part of a century. The most commonly offered explanation is that the name comes from the flies that are attracted to the pools of molasses that sometimes form on top of the pie while it is cooling. Many Amish homemakers set hot pies on a windowsill to catch a cooling breeze in the summer, hence the need to shoo the flies.
Other food historians point to the possibility that the name of the pie is simply an inaccurately translated version of a German or Swiss word. Interestingly, Elizabeth Coblentz, in her first mention of the pie in her column, spelled it “Choo Fly Pie.” Whether this was simply an error or a phonetic clue to the recipe’s origin went with her when she passed away.

Makes one 9-inch pie

1 disk My Homemade Pie Dough (page 3) or Pat-a-Pan Piecrust (page 4)
1 cup molasses
2/3 cup boiling water
1 teaspoon baking soda

Topping:
3 1/2cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup shortening, softened
Dash of salt

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