The Amish Cook

BY LOVINA EICHER

School doors opened on Tues­day, Sept. 4. The house seemed pretty empty after the six youngest left for school at 7 a.m. They had Rich for their bus dri­ver again which made them happy. Rich has been the bus dri­ver for the chil­dren ever since we moved to Michi­gan eight years ago. He is a good bus dri­ver. (Editor’s Note: Amish school­ing dif­fers from place to place. In some com­mu­ni­ties Amish chil­dren pri­mar­ily attend parochial schools, in oth­ers it is pub­lic. In Lovina’s set­tle­ment, chil­dren attend pub­lic school, attend the Amish parochial school or are home-schooled).

Son Kevin enjoyed his 7th birth­day on Sun­day. Daugh­ter Loretta baked a cake for Kevin. She didn’t know he wanted cup­cakes instead but he said it didn’t mat­ter. I dec­o­rated his cake using candy to write “happy birth­day.” He looked pretty happy when he saw it. We gave him a bike for his birth­day. He has never had his own. He would just use the other old bikes we have around here. He is so proud to have his very own bike and all of his free time rid­ing. I even caught him rid­ing it in our base­ment the other night. He found a big bot­tle of baby pow­der and sprin­kled “trails” on the base­ment floor. He was bik­ing on the trails until I came down­stairs and stopped him. He told me since we told him he couldn’t bike on the roads that he was try­ing to make roads in the base­ment. It left quite a dusty floor and mess to clean up!

Loretta is get­ting ner­vous about her surgery which will be on Mon­day. We will all be glad when it is over with. I hope and pray every­thing will turn out okay. She is very tired after a day spent at school.

My hus­band Joe and Joseph took the boat out on the lake on Mon­day, Labor Day. They fished most of the day. Eliz­a­beth and Ben­jamin went with Elizabeth’s friend Tim­o­thy on a boat on a dif­fer­ent lake. They all came home with some fish which were mostly bluegill.

The rest of the chil­dren and I spent the day relax­ing at home. It was a nice day and would have been a good after­noon to do laun­dry, but we waited until Tues­day, though, so Susan and I could do it after the chil­dren left for school. We all needed that break. Eliz­a­beth was glad to have a day off from the fac­tory. They are putting in long-hours every­day. It sounds like she will have to work Sat­ur­days now. When I worked at a sewing fac­tory before I was mar­ried I did not like work­ing Sat­ur­days. It seemed like enough to work five days and Sat­ur­day was the day to get caught up on work at home.

A lot of the deer hunters are doing tar­get prac­tice with their bows. They are get­ting excited for open­ing day of deer season.

The boys picked five big buck­ets of toma­toes out of our gar­den last night. Susan and I did laun­dry this morn­ing and it looks like we will be work­ing up toma­toes this after­noon. I am glad to fill more jars.

Sis­ter Emma will drop off Steven, 5, in a lit­tle bit. She has to take one of her chil­dren to a doc­tor appoint­ment this afternoon.

Since Steven goes to school in the morn­ing I imag­ine he will have plenty of sto­ries to share with us. Kevin was excited to have Steven at school this year.

POTATO OMELETTE

6 small potatoes

3 medium onions

6 to 8 ounces smoked ham

12 eggs

Salt and pep­per to taste

Oil

Slice pota­toes, onions, and ham as thinly as pos­si­ble. Saute pota­toes and onions in oil until soft but not brown. But­ter a 7 1/2 by 11 3/ 4 glass bak­ing dish. Layer pota­toes, onions, and ham in the dish. Stir eggs with salt and pep­per to taste and pour over top. Bake at 325 for 20 — 25 min­utes or until eggs are set.

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