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Table of Contents
Dutch Treats: Cuisine as Living Tradition
CHAPTER 1 | Festive Breads (Feschtbrode)
Apple Bread or Schnitzing Bread • Baked Anise Dumplings • Bean Day Bread • Butter Semmels • Quince Honey • Christmas Fruit Loaf • Cinnamon Rolls or “Snails” • Dutch Bread or Light Cake • Easter Lamb • Lebanon Rusks or Potato Rusks • New Year’s “Boys” • New Year’s Pretzels • Saffron Bread • Stollen and Strietzel • Sugar Buns or Kissing Buns
Bigler Cake • Bishop’s Bread • Breitinger’s Apple Cake with Cheese • Coffee Shoofly Cake • Coffee Spice Cake • Crumb Cake • Dutch Apple Cake • Dutch Butter Cake • Filled Crumb Cake • Gerhart’s Reunion Cake • Honey Loaf Cake with Walnuts • Hyndman Corn Cake • Leopard Cake • Maple Sugar Apeas • Osterburg Easter Cake • Railroad Cake • Rough-and-Ready Cake • Saffron Apeas • Vanilla Apeas • Yeast-Raised Plum Cake
CHAPTER 3 | Cookies and Small Pastries (Kichelche un Gleenegebeck)
Adam and Eve Cookies • Apeas Drop Cookies • Antler Cookies • Bellylaps • Belschnickel Cookies • Chinquapin Jumbles • Crullers • Finger Dumplings • Frackville Pretzels and Fastnachts • Honey Cakes • Lemon Hearts • New Year’s Cake • Nuttle Cookies • Orange Pretzels • Loop Kringles • Sand Tarts • Snickerdoodles • Snowballs • Slit Fritters or Harvest Home Fritters • Springerle Cookies • Sugar Cookies or Ritner Roll-Outs • Sugar Kingles • White Peppernuts • Whoopie Cake
CHAPTER 4 | Datsch Cakes (Datschkuche)
Apple Datsch (Sweet) • Green Tomato and Apple Datsch • Hickory Nut Datsch • Oatmeal Datsch • Peanut Datsch • Raisin Datsch or Bethlehem Cake • St. Gertrude’s Day Datsch
CHAPTER 5 | Pies and Tarts (Die Boie un Kuche)
Almond Pastry Dough • Raspberry Pockets • Basic Pie Crust • Yeast-Raised Tart Dough • Apple Butter Pie • Apple Schnitz Pie with Sweet Potatoes • Bear Cheese Pie with Pretzel Crust • Buttermilk Crumb Pie • Cottage Cheese Tart • Rosehip Jam • Fish Pie • Green Apple Pie with Grapefruit and Lovage • Groundcherry Strip Pie • Strip Pie Crust • Half-Moon Pies with Pumpkin Filling • Hard Tack Pie or Poor House Pie •