Best-Loved Hexel and Mummix

• Dutch Hash

• Hexel

• Mrs. Ganseleiter's Hot Mummix

• Mrs. Weaver's Egg Hexel

• Mummix

• Mush And Creamed Beef Hexel

• Noodle And Prune Mummix

• Tomato Mummix

• “A Good, Hard Soap”

• Apple Rings

• Aunt Sue's Dandelion Wine

• Aunt Sue's Raspberry Vinegar

• Blackberry Shrub

• Fried Mush

• Grape Juice

• Hominy Fritters

• Hot Tomato Cocktail

• Mrs. Schaeffer's Dandelion Wine

• Pretzels

• Trifles

• Zwieback

Up to this point, our Pennsylvania Dutch (German) recipes have proceeded along usual lines. However, this section will deal with Hexel and Mummix. Sorry, you will not find these words in a dictionary and probably not even in a Pennsylvania Dutch dictionary, if you are lucky enough to get hold of one. These words are distinctly regional and colloquial.

Simply the Pennsylvania Dutch has fun with their language. All talk in Pennsylvania Dutch seem to be humorous. The speakers tilt their sentences with laughter at the ends. The language can make a comic song or a funny story doubly hilarious and much is lost in translation. 

The folk that gathers solemnly on Grundsou Day to report its observations of the groundhog casting its shadow, celebrate his awakening, and then seemingly eat woodchuck at the dinner to mark the day.