Cream together brown sugar, lard or butter and eggs. Stir baking soda into sour milk. Sift baking powder, salt and flour together. Add milk and dry ingredients alternately to the creamed mixture. Drop ...

These easy-to-make, old-fashioned sugar cookies simply melt in your mouth! This is one of the best Amish cookie recipes I’ve ever had. I’ve passed this one around to many friends, and after I gave it ...

3 cups brown sugar1 cup lard or butter, softened2 eggs2 teaspoons baking soda2 cups sour milk2 teaspoons baking powder5 cups flour, siftedPinch of saltCream together brown sugar, lard or butter, and ...

The Amish Farm & House will host a tour dedicated to one of the best parts of the holiday season: homemade Christmas cookies. The tour will take visitors to three Amish houses to try ...

Lovina loves the changing colors of the many trees in her yard. The trees always give cooling shade in the summer and leaves ...

I have a crush on cabins, and it’s been there for as long as I can remember. We’ll be traveling down the road, and I’ll turn my head for a final glimpse at a cozy cabin tucked in at the edge of the ...

Time sure has a way of slipping by! My girls have only 31⁄2; weeks of school left. I can hear it thundering in the distance. It looks a storm is brewing in the west. Our neighbors are still outside ...

My grandmother made the best shoofly pie in the tradition of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Shoofly pie is to the Pennsylvania Dutch as pecan pie is to a Southerner. —Mark Morgan, Waterford, Wisconsin By the ...

On a recent crisp day in Lancaster County, tour bus driver Debi Fultz spent more than two hours driving a filled bus from house to house, all in the name of Amish Christmas cookies. As Christmas draws ...

It’s probably our coldest morning so far this fall. The mercury on the thermometer dipped down to almost 20 degrees. How thankful we are for a cozy house to live in. Some are not so fortunate. We ...