A Farmer’s Daughter: Recipes from a Mennonite Kitchen
October 24th, 2012. Filed under: Wednesday's Wonders. 
Recipes from a Mennonite Kitchen
Welcome to the warm and inviting kitchen of Dawn Stoltzfus, a young Mennonite wife and mother who was raised on a dairy farm where simple, wholesome food was a key ingredient of the good life. In A Farmer’s Daughter, she opens up her recipe box, wipes away the crumbs and wrinkles from the well-loved recipes and shares them with cooks and food-lovers everywhere. She offers us over two hundred delicious recipes that reflect the comfort foods she learned to cook from her mother, the same hearty and creative recipes she made and sold at The Farmer’s Wife Market.
Along with the simple, wholesome recipes for starters, main dishes, sides and desserts, readers will find charming stories from Dawn’s Mennonite upbringing, tips and tricks for easy meal planning and preparation, and ideas for serving with flair. Anyone who loves to feed their loved ones hearty, wholesome meals will treasure this cookbook.
ISLAND BREEZES
My two favorite cookbooks are Mennonite. Now I have three.
These recipes are unbelievably good. I had a hard time just getting past the breakfast section. I want to make everything in the book. Since it’s getting a little chilly out, I choose to make the Beef and Barley Soup. Wonderfully warm and filling.
But it’s not just recipes. There’s also Food for Thought scattered throughout the book, as well as tips for presentation and other useful bits of information.
This book can make one feel as if love and knowledge is coming your way over a cup of tea or coffee.
Sitting and sharing recipes with neighbors and friends is something I’ve enjoyed over the years. Thank you Dawn for sitting and sharing with me.
***A special thank you to Donna Hausler for providing a review copy.***
Dawn Stoltzfus is a wife, a mother of two sweet little boys and a lover of anything creative. She started and ran The Farmer’s Wife Market until 2008 when she sold it in order to stay at home to raise her family. She loves to cook, for one or three hundred and sees cooking and entertaining as an opportunity to serve them out of love and joy rather than out of a sense of obligation. Her love for cooking was inspired by her mother and developed as she cooked for her family of six on their active, working dairy farm in Ohio.
Available October 2012 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
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