Dutch Treats. William Woys Weaver

      Cheryl has always been my Rock.

      Thank you for what you have done for me.

      This book is your spiritual child.

       Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       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

       CHAPTER 2 | Cakes (Kuche)

      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 •