Food That Really Schmecks: Mennonite Country Cooking by Edna Staebler

  • Elderberry blossom wine (page 15)

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    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol); Canadian
    • Ingredients: elderberry flowers; sugar; lemons; raisins; yeast
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  • Oatmeal bread

    • nadiam1000 on May 23, 2022

      I have made this bread for years (so many gems in this cookbook) and now it is my son's favorite. These days I use my kitchen aid for all the mixing and kneading and this last time I did not need the full amount of flour. It is quite a sweet loaf but makes terrific toast and sandwiches and has a nice soft texture. The recipe yields 2 loaves and I freeze one.

  • Butterscotch macaroons

    • Beebopalulu on May 31, 2021

      Not pretty but chewy and moresome. Replaced part of oatmeal with coconut, and cherries with currents.

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  • ISBN 10 6610925895
  • ISBN 13 9786610925896
  • Published Jan 01 2007
  • Format eBook
  • Language English
  • Countries Canada
  • Publisher Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • Imprint Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Publishers Text

In the 1960s, Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking. From this fieldwork came the cookbook "Food That Really Schmecks." Originally published in 1968, Schmecks instantly became a classic, selling tens of thousands of copies. Interspersed with practical and memorable recipes are Staebler's stories and anecdotes about cooking, Mennonites, her family, and Waterloo Region. Described by Edith Fowke as folklore literature, Staebler's cookbooks have earned her national acclaim. This book includes a foreword by Wayson Choy with an introduction by Rose Murray.

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