For breakfast try The Pancake Farm Restaurant, 1032 S. State Street in Ephranta, PA in the heart of Lancaster County. My favorite breakfast - a pancake and egg sandwich and a side of scrapple. What is scrapple you ask - Take a pig. Use the legs for ham, the stomach for backon, smoke the shoulders, saute the loin, stew the ears for cuchifritos, the intestines for chittlin's. Pickle the pig's feet. Take what's left over and mix with corn meal. That's scrapple - a Pennsylvania Dutch and Philadelphia breakfast staple that must be savored at least once. Enjoy.
Pennsylvania
Amish Country Eats
In article on Tue, 6 Jun 1995 16:30:40 -0600 you write: > >Any recommendations for a great place for Amish food in Pennsylvania or >the region? TIA, >Edith In Intercourse, Pa. south of town there was a country farm restaurant (in a real farm house) called Stolfutzes Farm Rest. You paid for your meal when you entered, and you are seated a big long tables and served country style (food serve in big bowls). If it is busy you are seated with others, or they with you. Real plain and simple but delicious food. Stop at the butch shop store at the end of the driveway on your way out and stock up on their sausages and scrapple etc. I have not been there for a number of years, but would drive a hundred miles out of my way to get there. I also once ate at another all-you-can-eat place in a nearby town,(on a E/W highway) that had 'several hundred' items at buffet tables. The place had a country store type look to it, but buses were encouraged. I did not think it would be any good, but supprisingly it was. There were over a hundred (boys scouts) in our group, and not one teenager left the place hungry or complaining they did not get enough,or find enogh food they liked...8-) Anyone ring a bell on the name and location????? They also had an interesting selection of cigars for sale....before I finally and totally gave up that habit.
Someone wrote: : Any recommendations for a great place for Amish food in Pennsylvania or : the region? TIA, There's a Amish Style buffet place on Route 30 (Lancaster Pike) just east of Lancaster County. Its called Miller's. They have absolutely fantastic food, but bring a huge appetite with you. Everything on their buffet is good, especially their home made desserts! For $18 per person, you get the buffet which consists of about 5 or 6 main courses, a few different vegies, and appetisers such as home made corn soup and fresh bread and a large area full of home made desserts such as shoe fly pie and ice cream, fresh fruites, etc. You can eat like royalty at Miller's.
Tsong E. wrote: >Any recommendations for a great place for Amish food in Pennsylvania or >the region? TIA, >Edith They are all over the place in Lancaster and Berks counties. There's a place in Lenheartsville (sp?) just off I-78, 6 miles north of Kutztown, whose name translates to: "Dutch Corner" Their Shoo-fly pie is quite good. Their sausages, scrapple and other meats come from the near-by Peter Brother's butchershop. Speaking of butchershops, Peter Brother's is excellent, but another one to check out is Dietrich's in Krummsville (again sp?) also several miles north of Kutztown, along I-78. Very good scrapple with mustard seeds. They have all sorts of pickled animal parts (heart, gizzard, kidney... yum...)
Tsong E. wrote: > >Any recommendations for a great place for Amish food in Pennsylvania or >the region? TIA, >Edith Most of the places in the Amish country are tourist traps with pretty lousy food. I DID try a pretty decent buffet called The Hershey Farm (I think) off of Rt. 30 in Lancaster. Amish food is not exactly one of the world's great cuisines, but you might want to try a slice of shoo-fly pie and maybe a relish or two just for the experience.
There are a number of Pennsylvania Dutch restaurants in the area around Lancaster, PA. Most of them offer lots of of typical hearty meals, seved family style. Lots of heavy meats and veggies and desserts. Not gourmet but filling and reasonably tasty. Try Good and Plenty, 7 sweets and 7 sours, etc. If you are not familiar with the area and have a car pick up one of the guided tours on audio tape. They will permit you to tour the countryside at your own pace and are quite informative. Incidentally, the Pennsylvania Dutch are not Dutch. The term is a bastardization of the German word "Deutch". If you are wondering about all the candles in the windows that you'll see in the area, they are just signs saying "Welcome". ***************************************************************************** Lester D. Heitlinger, R.B.P. When I want your opinion I'll give [email removed] it to you! On 8 Jun 1995, Jan K. wrote: > Tsong E. wrote: > > > >Any recommendations for a great place for Amish food in Pennsylvania or > >the region? TIA, > >Edith > > > Most of the places in the Amish country are tourist traps with > pretty lousy food. I DID try a pretty decent buffet called > The Hershey Farm (I think) off of Rt. 30 in Lancaster. Amish > food is not exactly one of the world's great cuisines, but you > might want to try a slice of shoo-fly pie and maybe > a relish or two just for the experience. > >
Tsong E. wrote: >Any recommendations for a great place for Amish food in Pennsylvania or >the region? TIA, >Edith As many others have said, the food is plain but usually tasty and plentiful. We like Shady Maple which is in East Earl (about 3 miles from Blue Ball). This place is huge -- sometimes a long line but it move fast. The price varies from lunch to dinner, week day to week end -- approx. $10-15. There are 2 other interesting places at the same location -- Goode's Store and the grocery store. Goode's is a department store that caters to the Amish and Mennonites (and I suppose the tourist). It is kind of old-fashioned, most of the employees are Mennonite women, interesting fabric selection, kitchen gadgets, Amish clothing, etc. The grocery store has a wonderful butcher shop, bakery, bulk food selection, fresh produce selection, cheeses. When we go we take a cooler so we can purchase some goodies to take home. We can (and do) make a day of just Shady Maple.