Description

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More than 75 photographs from 1900 onward illustrate life and scenes in the Amana Colonies of Iowa, including German recipes by the cooks who made them famous. More than 100 recipes include beer batter for vegetables, cabbage soup, watercress salad, Amana-style sour cream salad, quick saurbraten, marinated round steak, roast pheasant with apples and kraut, red raspberry pie, chocolate layer cake, and more. This book also includes history, culture, and religion of the Amana Colonies, a communal society until 1932.

About the Author

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Sue Roemig Goree grew up in the Amanas and writes of the delicacies from the garden of her "oma" (grandmother). She loves the feeling of community she gets in Amana from her church and extended family. "While walking through the commerce-oriented streets of the Amanas [today], it is nice to know it remains a bustling community of families carrying on a faith."