Zwiebach recipe
Now that I am retired, I love to bake zwiebach and have become known at Jubilee Mennonite Church in Winnipeg as the “Zwiebach Lady.” You can read more about my story here. My zwiebach recipe comes from a cookbook made as a fundraiser for Parkwood Mennonite Home in Waterloo, Ont., called 1999-International Year of Older Persons. The recipe…
Oven Omelette popular with B&B guests
Do you love food? I do! My love of cooking and experimenting with food has led me to develop many of my own recipes. A few years ago, I typed up and printed out approximately a hundred of my recipes, placed them into binders and gave them to my seven children. Recently, I asked those…
Jill’s Oven Omelette
I developed this original recipe as part of a school nutrition program. Read the story behind the recipe here. Ingredients 12 large eggs 2 cups milk 1 cup grated parmesan cheese 1 cup finely chopped green onions ½ cup finely chopped bell pepper ½ teaspoon ground black pepper Instructions Preheat oven to 375° F. Spray…
A big heart filled with butter tarts
Barry Reesor is widely known for the generosity with which he shares his famous homemade butter tarts. He calls it his “butter-tart ministry.” Although he is a computer guy who works in network infrastructure, he also enjoys baking, and the coworkers at his office frequently benefit from his big heart. They recognize the white container…
Barry’s butter tart recipe
Read the story behind this recipe here. Pastry: 2 cups all-purpose flour ½ tsp. salt ¾ cup shortening ½ to ¾ cup ice-cold water Stir together the flour and salt and cut in shortening with a pastry blender until it is crumbly. Add the ice-cold water a little at a time, using just…
Breaking bread builds community
Every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., students, staff and faculty at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, Ont., gather to share a meal called Community Supper. This tradition traces back to the mid-1960s, when the college was founded, and to Grebel’s very first president, J. Winfield Fretz. In those early days, he insisted on having small…
Community Supper bread recipe
This recipe is from the kitchen staff at Conrad Grebel University College. (Read about the recipe’s significance here.) This recipe makes 22 very large loaves 15 tablespoons instant yeast 35 cups warm water 5 cups sugar 5 cups vegetable oil 10 tablespoons salt 98 cups flour or more Mix yeast, water, sugar, oil and salt…
Tourtiere recipes – regular and gluten-free
This French Canadian meat pie has become a Christmas Eve tradition in Leona Dueck Penner’s family. Tourtiere – regular Ingredients: 5 lbs. (approx. 2 kg) lean minced pork 3 large onions, finely chopped 5 clove garlic, minced 4 med. potatoes, finely grated 2 ½ cups water 3 bay leaves 1 ¼ tsp. ground cloves 1…
Christmas Eve tradition brings comfort and joy
Celebration is necessary for survival. It renews the spirit and recreates hope. It nourishes and strengthens both giver and receiver, and it helps to lighten the crosses in our daily lives. That’s what our friends at the Christian Council of Mozambique taught us over and over again in the 1980s, when Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)…
Frogmore stew – Amish-Mennonite version
This recipe, that probably originates in the southern U.S., came to Ontario via the MCC meat canner and an Amish community in Ohio. Read the accompanying Gathering Around the Table story at canadianmennonite.org/stories/hostess-enjoys-surprising-her-guests. Serves 10-14 people The yucky stuff (broth): 1 cup ketchup 1 cup vegetable oil 1 cup vinegar 1 pkg.…
