Welcome to the warm and inviting kitchen of Dawn Stoltzfus, a
young Mennonite wife and mother who was raised on a dairy farm
where simple, wholesome food was a key ingredient of the good life.
In A Farmer's Daughter, she opens up her recipe box, wipes
away the crumbs and wrinkles from the well-loved recipes, and
shares them with cooks and food-lovers everywhere. She offers us
over two hundred delicious recipes that reflect the comfort foods
she learned to cook from her mother, the same hearty and creative
recipes she made and sold at The Farmer's Wife Market.
Along with the simple, wholesome recipes for starters, main dishes,
sides, and desserts, readers will find charming stories from Dawn's
Mennonite upbringing, tips and tricks for easy meal planning and
preparation, and ideas for serving with flair. Anyone who loves to
feed their loved ones hearty, wholesome meals will treasure this
cookbook.
Over 200 mouthwatering recipes--fresh from the
farm
I'm Dawn Stoltzfus. Welcome to my kitchen! I was raised on a
Mennonite farm where simple, wholesome food was a key ingredient of
the good life. Now I'm opening up my recipe box, wiping away the
crumbs and wrinkles from the well-loved recipe cards, and sharing
them with you. From Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls and Strawberry Shortcake
to Old-Fashioned Beef Stew and Chicken and Herb Dumplings, all the
best comfort foods I learned to cook from my mother are here, along
with some dishes that may surprise you!
In addition to the simple, wholesome recipes for starters, main
dishes, sides, and desserts, I share favorite stories from my
Mennonite upbringing, tips and tricks for easy meal planning and
preparation, and ideas for serving with flair.
If you enjoy feeding your family hearty, wholesome meals made with
fresh ingredients and lots of love, please join me in the
kitchen!
Dawn Stoltzfus is a wife, a mother of two sweet little boys
and one precious baby girl, and a lover of anything creative. She
started and ran The Farmer's Wife market until 2008, when she sold
it in order to stay at home to raise her family. She loves to cook,
for one or three hundred. Her love of cooking was inspired by her
mother and developed as she cooked for her family of six on their
active, working dairy farm in Ohio.
Dawn Stoltzfus is a wife, a mother of two sweet little boys, and a lover of anything creative. She started and ran The Farmer's Wife Market until 2008 when she sold it in order to stay at home to raise her family. She loves to cook, for one or three hundred, and sees cooking and entertaining as an opportunity to "be Jesus to people" and serve them out of love and joy rather than out of a sense of obligation. Her love for cooking was inspired by her mother and developed as she cooked for her family of six on their active, working dairy farm in Ohio.