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 ...

Lovina Eicher shares family life, Old Christmas celebrations, and a simple cookie recipe in her Amish Kitchen column.

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 ...

"All our grandchildren love their Aunt Verena. I think they think she's much more fun and cooler than Grandma." ...

There are signs less obvious than handwritten “No Sunday sales” that this is an Amish garden. First, the garden is large enough to feed a family in the double digits. Long straight rows of beans, ...