Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book

Note: This edition of the Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book has been updated to include Metric equivalents.


In the early years of the eighteenth century, nearly all the first settlers in Eastern Pennsylvania came from the Palatinate in Germany. They selected pieces of land, built loghouses and began to clear and cultivate the soil. Though these good people came from Germany, they came to be known as “Dutch.” These same settlers developed a language, a mixture of their mother tongue in the old world and that spoken in their new homeland, America, which came to be known as Pennsylvania Dutch instead of Pennsylvania Deutsch.


In those early days, the good housewives had brought with them the recipes of the traditionally famous German cooks. Life was hard and at first the land yielded but little return. There were few roads and the towns were far apart. It was not always possible to secure the prescribed ingredients and it became necessary to develop new recipes to utilize the plainer foods in the creation of tasty dishes. Necessity was again the mother of invention and these good women became famous for their fine cooking until now Pennsylvania Dutch cooking is renowned throughout the world.


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