The family's Christmas brunch featured a "breakfast haystack," a layered dish of biscuits, meat, eggs, and various toppings.

Christmas 2025 will be here in a few days already! This year our family will gather on Christmas Day. What a joy it is to me ...

It is Monday evening, just after 7 p.m. here at the Eicher homestead. Supper is over with and dishes are washed. It is time to call it a day.

Oct. 1, 2002 (23 years ago), I wrote my first column. I thought it would be interesting to all the new and old readers. My mother penned the Amish Cook column for 11 years. I was a teenager at home ...

Lovina looks forward to her family gathering on Christmas Day. Before then, she made Christmas cookies for Joe to give to his ...

We have entered the fourth month of 2025. It is 26 degrees at 5:30 a.m. My husband Joe and son Benjamin have both left for work. I have lots and lots of laundry to wash today so I thought I had better ...

Daughter Verena turned 26 on Dec. 10. Grandson Timothy (T.J.) will be 5 on Dec. 17, granddaughter Allison will be 4 on Dec. 27, and my husband Joe will be 55 on Dec. 22. Happy birthday to all of them!

Cream together brown sugar, lard or butter and eggs. Stir baking soda into sour milk. Sift baking powder, salt and flour together. Add milk and dry ingredients alternately to the creamed mixture. Drop ...

At 10 a.m. the temperature is still only at zero degrees with a wind chill of 17 below zero. The last several days we have had even colder temperatures and wind chill down to minus 27 degrees. It’s ...

Oh my! Three days left until daughter Lovina and Daniel’s wedding. Everything is starting to fall into place, but once again, I feel nervous that I might have forgotten something. I’m sure I have, but ...

Sister-in-law Nancy’s 62nd birthday is on April 23. Brother Amos passed away suddenly six years ago, leaving Nancy a widow. May you have a wonderful birthday, Nancy! Last Friday evening, Joe and I ...

This year our family will gather on Christmas Day. What a joy it is to me when we can be with our loved ones. Let us remember ...