June Recipes

Amish Strawberry Pie
1 baked 9-inch pie shell
3 oz. cream cheese
1 c. sugar
1-1/2 qts. whole strawberries

Beat cream cheese with sugar, spread carefully over bottom of baked pie shell. Arrange berries in shell. Berries should be cut and sliced.

Pour the following glaze over the berries:
1 Tbsp. powdered sugar
2 Tbsp. white Karo syrup
1 c. water
3 Tbsp. strawberry Jello mix
Pinch of salt
3 Tbsp. cornstarch

Cook all ingredients except Jello mix over medium heat until thick. Add Jello mix. Cool before pouring over berries.

Amish Carrots
6 carrots, cut into strips
2 Tbsp. horseradish
Pepper to taste
1/2 cup mayonnaise
4 Tbsp. water
1/4 cup almonds

Blanch carrots in boiling water for 8 minutes. Drain and put into flat baking dish. Mix remaining ingredients except almonds. Pour over carrots. Sprinkle with freshly ground pepper. Sprinkle almonds over all. Bake at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes.

Amish Tomato Gravy
4 cups tomato juice
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
Salt and pepper

Bring tomato juice to a boil. Mix together flour and milk. Add to boiling tomato juice. Bring to a boil again and remove from heat. Pour over cubed bread.

Amish Soda Cracker Pudding Recipe
18 soda crackers
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
2 Tbsp. peanut butter
3 cups milk
2 eggs
2 Tbsp. cornstarch
1 cup white sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup coconut

Melt butter and peanut butter. Add to brown sugar and cracker crumbs and mix well. Place in pan, pressing crumbs to sides and bottom. Reserve 1/4 crumbs for topping. In a sauce pan, combine milk, eggs, cornstarch and white sugar and boil over medium heat until thickened; add vanilla and coconut. Pour slowly over crumbs and refrigerate. When cool, sprinkle remaining crumbs over top.

Amish Ham Salad
1 lb. sliced ham, cut into julienne strips
1 lb. can of sauerkraut, rinsed and drained well
1 lb. Swiss cheese, coarsely grated
1 Tbsp. caraway seed
1 Tbsp. dill weed
Mayonnaise
Mix all ingredients together with a
kitchen fork and add mayonnaise until
it reaches the consistency that you like.

Serve on your favorite rye bread.

Can also be used on crackers as an
appetizer.

Amish Rhubarb Butter Crunch
4 cup diced rhubarb
1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp. flour
1 cup brown sugar
1-1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening

Mix the first 3 ingredients and place in a 6 x 10 baking dish. Combine rest of
ingredients and sprinkle over Rhubarb
mixture.
Bake at 375 degrees for 40 minutes.
Serve warm with cream or plain.