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Mennonite cuisine

4 recipes

The recipes we actually cook.

Mennonite desserts

German platz

A neighbour used to make this fruity coffee cake weekly. They had a huge boxy house with two kitchens, where the second kitchen was for making desserts and canning. I always thought having a kitchen for large batch cooking was a fantastic …

Cook25–35m
Mennonite salads

Gurkensalat (German cucumber salad)

My Mom (Joanne Rempel) made this salad a lot in my youth and it holds nostalgic memories! I had not had it in years and in my early 40s had a strong craving for it. I found a recipe online and made it for something different. It took me …

Prep15m
Serves4, or a small appy for more
Mennonite breads

Oma’s kipfels

A Kipfel is traditionally a crescent-shaped yeast bread, one of the oldest styles of pastries.