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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are still busy getting prepared for niece Emma’s wedding next week. So this week I will share some recipes that we use over the holidays. Sour cream cut-out cookies are still our favorite Christmas ...

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 ...

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 ...

These Amish sugar cookies bake up soft and tender using simple pantry ingredients. They hold their shape, stay light and chewy, and are perfect for sharing. You may also love my snickerdoodle cookies ...

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 ...

Jacob and Emma had church services at their house yesterday. Services were actually held, not in their house, but in a newly built shed which can comfortably fit our whole congregation. The menu for ...

After I discovered this recipe, it became a mainstay for me. I make the dough ahead of time when company is coming, and I try to keep some in the refrigerator to bake for our ranch hands. Leftover ...

In 1991, while journalist Kevin Williams was researching a story in an Ohio Amish community, he came up with the idea for a newspaper column written by an Amish woman about her home life. He struck ...