Delicious Pennsylvania Dutch Recipes

The Pennsylvania Dutch are the descendants of Germanic peoples who emigrated to the U.S. (primarily to Pennsylvania), from Germany and The Low Countries prior to 1800. 

The Dutch are generally regarded as one of several Germanic peoples.  The German, Deutsch, the archaic Dutch, Deitsch, and the modern Dutch, Duits, each mean 'German' yet are all cognates of the English, 'Dutch'. Hostetler (1993) gives the origin of 'Dutch' as a "folk-rendering" of 'Deits.

Pennsylvania Dutch Recipes

Introduction

• Bread & Breadstuff Recipes

  • Quick Breads and Coffee Cake Recipes

  • Muffins, Griddle Cakes, and Waffle Recipes

• Candy Recipes

• Cheese Recipes

• Egg Recipes

• Fish & Seafood Recipes

• Dessert Recipes

  • Pies & Pastry Recipes

  • Cake Recipes

    • Icings & Filling Recipes

  • Cookie Recipes

  • Other Dessert Recipes

• Meat Recipes

  • Beef Recipes

  • Veal Recipes

  • Lamb Recipes

  • Pork & Ham Recipes

  • Rabbit Recipe

• Of Hexel & Mummix Recipes (Odds & Ends Recipes)

• Poultry & Stuffing Recipes

• Soup Recipes

  • Poor Man's Soup Recipes

  • Rich Soup Recipes

• Sweet & Sour Recipes (Pickles, Relish, and etc.)

• Vegetables & Salad Recipes

  • Salad Recipes

Special Features

• Penn Dutch Idioms and Expressions

• Penn. Dutch Menu Ideas

• Pennsylvania Dutch History

Pennsylvania Dutch are a people of various religious affiliations, most of them Lutheran or Reformed, but many Anabaptists, non-Christian, and non-religious as well. They live primarily in Southeastern Pennsylvania in the area stretching in an arc from Bethlehem and Allentown through Reading, Lebanon, and Lancaster to York and Chambersburg. 

They can also be found down throughout the Shenandoah Valley (the modern Interstate 81 corridor) in the adjacent states of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, and in the large Amish and Mennonite communities in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, in Ohio north and south of Youngstown and in Indiana around Elkhart. 

Their cultural traditions date back to the German immigrations to America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Only then did German immigration from various parts the southern Rhineland, Palatinate, the southern part of Hesse, Baden, Alsace Switzerland, and Tyrol Austria gain momentum, and soon dominate the area. But the Pennsylvania Dutch language is ultimately a derivative of Palatinate German.