The Amish Dry Mix Pantry Cookbook: 150 Easy, Budget-Friendly From-Scratch Baking Mixes, Soups, Gravies & Seasonings | Shop Once a Month, Feed a Family or a Crowd, 30-Day Meal Plan & Shopping Lists
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That jar was filled weeks ago, in an hour, with the radio on. It sits with others on the shelf by the stove, so on an ordinary Tuesday nobody has to plan dinner either. What is left is eggs, butter, milk and twenty minutes.
150 from-scratch dry mixes for what you now buy in a box, a packet or a can: pancake mix, gravy envelopes, condensed soup, pudding, seasoning packets. You measure once and then you stop thinking about it.
Most of it draws on Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch cooking. A few jars are newer, like the chili, the ranch and the chocolate chip cookies. They are here because they show up at every church potluck now, and a pantry that cannot make them is missing something.
This is not a canning book. Nothing goes in a water bath or a pressure canner. Every jar is dated in months, and every jar is meant to be used.
Start with the pancake jar. It's the one Molly’s family empties fastest, and by about the fourth batch it's paid for the flour.
It's five o’clock and somebody asks what's for dinner. Nobody reaches for the freezer or the phone. You look at the shelf.
The Amish Dry Mix Pantry Cookbook: 150 Easy, Budget-Friendly From-Scratch Baking Mixes, Soups, Gravies & Seasonings | Shop Once a Month, Feed a Family or a Crowd, 30-Day Meal Plan & Shopping Lists
Sale price
$33.99
Regular price
$44.99
Saturday morning. The griddle is hot, the pancake jar is on the counter, and the kitchen smells like butter and vanilla before the coffee kicks in.
That jar was filled weeks ago, in an hour, with the radio on. It sits with others on the shelf by the stove, so on an ordinary Tuesday nobody has to plan dinner either. What is left is eggs, butter, milk and twenty minutes.
150 from-scratch dry mixes for what you now buy in a box, a packet or a can: pancake mix, gravy envelopes, condensed soup, pudding, seasoning packets. You measure once and then you stop thinking about it.
What's inside
- Two sizes for every mix. A Family Jar for your own table, and a Crowd Batch exactly three times as big. The math is done for you.
- A 30-day plan. One shopping trip, four batch days, twenty jars, and a Crowd Day that feeds twelve from jars already on the shelf.
- Shopping lists. One for the big trip, marked grocery store or warehouse club item by item, and four short weekly lists for the fresh things.
- Cups and grams. Cup and spoon measures, with gram weights for cooks who like to weigh their ingredients.
- Jar size and shelf life at the top of every page.
- What It Replaces: an index of the boxes and packets each jar stands in for.
- Cutting the Salt and the Sugar: a section for cooks who want less of either.
Eight chapters for every day of the week
- The Breakfast Table: pancakes, waffles, baked oatmeal, muffins, granola and sausage gravy.
- The Bread Box: biscuits, quick breads, yeast breads and soft pretzels.
- The Soup Kettle: bean soups, chicken corn soup with rivels, and a cream base that retires the condensed cans.
- Dinner Helpers: gravies, casserole bases, pot-pie noodles and potato filling.
- The Pie Shelf: shoofly, sugar cream, snitz and lemon sponge pies, crisps and fry-pie fillings.
- The Cookie Jar: molasses crinkles, sand tarts, whoopie pies and bars for a crowd.
- Puddings and Comforts: stovetop puddings, baked custard, date pudding and the sauces that go over them.
- The Seasoning Shelf and the Drink Cupboard: spice blends, hot cocoa, sweet tea and meadow tea.
Plain cooking from Amish country
Most of it draws on Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch cooking. A few jars are newer, like the chili, the ranch and the chocolate chip cookies. They are here because they show up at every church potluck now, and a pantry that cannot make them is missing something.This is not a canning book. Nothing goes in a water bath or a pressure canner. Every jar is dated in months, and every jar is meant to be used.
Start with the pancake jar. It's the one Molly’s family empties fastest, and by about the fourth batch it's paid for the flour.
It's five o’clock and somebody asks what's for dinner. Nobody reaches for the freezer or the phone. You look at the shelf.