Amish (and hillbilly) foods.

[Magus]

 

[Amish Heart]

OK, I'll throw in my 2 cents, and I skimmed thru that hr long video. Ha. Amish food is very regional, so for instance ShoeFly Pie isn't seen much in the plains Amish where I live, but Raisin Sour Cream pie is a big thing, and Peanut butter pie. Other things in the video that I see here....Pear jam (I make it), Apple butter, cracklings, sauerkraut, homemade ketchup and BBQ sauce, canned veg and fruit (of course), lots of home canned applesauce, pickles and even red hot pickles made with red hot candy, and sausage cream gravy and biscuits, although I was raised on dried beef cream gravy and toast. Fried mush and tomato gravy is hugely popular here.
Most of these foods are cheap to make. Lots of beans here, too, and they always have cut up hot dogs in them or vienna sausage.

 

[DrHenley]

Everything at the Amish store/deli near the BOL is familiar to me.

 

[Peanut]

I vote for Tater Tot casserole!!!! Had some for the first time a few years ago only to be informed by Amish Heart it's... Amish food!

 

[Amish Heart]

Oh yeah!
Tater Tot casserole and Bierrocks, too. Had a bierrock for lunch yesterday. Ham bone and navy bean soup with cornbread.

 

[Amish Heart]

Our local favorite is also chicken and noodles. There's a little broth in it but not much. Pie and soft serve icecream.

 

[Magus]

What drew me to the film was how much it had in common with Appalachian mountain foods,
But then again, we had Amish and Mennonites in the area, and we'd trade with them on occasion at the gas station. I had a real crush on one of the daughters, but her dad always corralled them away.
Which sect was supposedly afraid of electricity? Both families had vehicles. I never knew about the buggy thing until I saw it on TV.

 

[Magus]

Everything at the Amish store/deli near the BOL is familiar to me.

The red and black wax cheeses are to die for!

 

[Amish Heart]

What drew me to the film was how much it had in common with Appalachian mountain foods,
But then again, we had Amish and Mennonites in the area, and we'd trade with them on occasion at the gas station. I had a real crush on one of the daughters, but her dad always corralled them away.
Which sect was supposedly afraid of electricity? Both families had vehicles. I never knew about the buggy thing until I saw it on TV.

Generally the amish don't use electricity, but it depends on the amish. Solar is popular with the Old Order Amish where I live, so electrical appliances are sometimes used. It's common to see big lithium batteries sitting around powering something with an inverter. Just saw a nebulizer hooked up that way at a neighbor's place. The amish here don't use electricity from the power poles at the road. And they drive tractors (like a car) and horse and buggy only on Sunday. Mennonites here depends on the kind of mennonite they are. I have electricity and a car. Old order Mennonites might or might not, or limit the use of both, like no tv or radio. We have extra pasture, so our neighbor Marlon's buggy horse lives here except on Sundays, then she works. Her name is Bets. There is a group of Mennonites called Black Bumper Mennonites, and their car couldn't be fancy and couldn't have a chrome bumper. Amish America website is a great info website with photos too of the Amish in our country.

 

[DrHenley]

What drew me to the film was how much it had in common with Appalachian mountain foods,
But then again, we had Amish and Mennonites in the area, and we'd trade with them on occasion at the gas station. I had a real crush on one of the daughters, but her dad always corralled them away.
Which sect was supposedly afraid of electricity? Both families had vehicles. I never knew about the buggy thing until I saw it on TV.

Each Amish community can decide on their specific rules about technology. In general, if it makes people lazy or interferes with having interpersonal relationships, then they don't allow it. Amish businesses operate under different rules than Amish homes by necessity. You have to have air conditioning if you want "English" to shop in your store in the summer, for example. Operating a saw mill without using diesel or electricity won't be profitable. etc.
And they avoid all grid dependent utilities. So solar might be OK but electricity coming in over power lines is not.
While they might not tick all the boxes for being "preppers" they tick enough of them that they will be pretty well off in a grid down situation

 

[Amish Heart]

It depends on the region. Here, an Old Order Amish shop can't have electrical lights or air conditioning. They can run solar or LED battery charged lights, and they can use solar battery run fans.

 

[DrHenley]

If you look at where Amish communities have been successful and where they have not, there is a very strong negative correlation with summertime temperature and humidity.
In fact, if you look at the USDA map of plant hardiness zones, you will find almost zero Amish communities in Zone 8b and very few in Zone 8a. Once you get into Zone 7b then you start seeing more and more communities.

 

[Magus]

Both groups used fairly outdated vehicles; come to think of it, the one might have had a black bumper.
Which ones dress in black?

 

[DrHenley]

The men in the Amish community near the BOL wear bright blue overalls. Doesn't seem very "plain" to me.

 

[Magus]

The last Amish I encountered was 30 years ago. The ladies wore sun bonnets and pleated skirts, and the men dressed like Abe Lincoln. good people.

 

[Amish Heart]

If you look at where Amish communities have been successful and where they have not, there is a very strong negative correlation with summertime temperature and humidity.
In fact, if you look at the USDA map of plant hardiness zones, you will find almost zero Amish communities in Zone 8b and very few in Zone 8a. Once you get into Zone 7b then you start seeing more and more communitie

If you look at where Amish communities have been successful and where they have not, there is a very strong negative correlation with summertime temperature and humidity.
In fact, if you look at the USDA map of plant hardiness zones, you will find almost zero Amish communities in Zone 8b and very few in Zone 8a. Once you get into Zone 7b then you start seeing more and more communities.

There's a book I have called Amish Settlements that have Failed, and there were many that failed. I know the ones that tried it in New Mexico didn't make it. Although there are settlements now in Colorado and Wyoming. If they're not farming, they're ranching.

 

[Amish Heart]

The last Amish I encountered was 30 years ago. The ladies wore sun bonnets and pleated skirts, and the men dressed like Abe Lincoln. good people.

That doesn't sound amish. Some mennonite orders wear pleated skirts. South American mennonite ladies have very different caps, not like ours here.

 

[Amish Heart]

Both groups used fairly outdated vehicles; come to think of it, the one might have had a black bumper.
Which ones dress in black?

Old Order Amish wear black on Sundays, at Weddings, Funerals, special religious days. The dress for the ladies would be black with a white apron. Otherwise, it's denim material pants and a shirt (like Doug wears on Doug and Stacy), and the women where I live wear a white cap, or a bandana if at home and being informal, and a colored dress, but not wild colors, and no prints. The sleeve has to hit the elbow at least.

 

[Magus]

Most of the ones here sell preserves, furniture and quilts.

 

[Magus]

Old Order Amish wear black on Sundays, at Weddings, Funerals, special religious days. The dress for the ladies would be black with a white apron. Otherwise, it's denim material pants and a shirt (like Doug wears on Doug and Stacy), and the women where I live wear a white cap, or a bandana if at home and being informal, and a colored dress, but not wild colors, and no prints. The sleeve has to hit the elbow at least.

I'm just going on a 40-year-old memory of the ones I met as a kid, Maybe they were Quakers or something, but I swear Dad said they were Amish.