In Amish country, a pie is never just dessert. It is how you welcome a neighbor, celebrate a harvest, comfort a family, and mark every season of the year.
Shoofly pie on a Tuesday morning. Fresh strawberry pie in June. Pumpkin pie cooling on the windowsill in October. Chicken pot pie on a cold January Sunday. Amish women have been making pies like these for generations — with simple ingredients, practiced hands, and recipes that never needed improving.
This book gives you every one of them.
The Amish Pie Bible is the most complete collection of traditional Amish farmhouse pies ever assembled — 100 authentic recipes covering fruit pies, cream pies, custard pies, savory pies, holiday pies, and everything in between, with the techniques, crust secrets, and farmhouse wisdom that make every pie worth making twice.
Inside, you’ll discover:
The perfect Amish pie crust — every time — the traditional lard and butter crust recipe that produces the flakiest, most tender pastry you’ve ever tasted, with step-by-step instructions for rolling, shaping, crimping, and blind bakingFruit pies from the farmhouse orchard — classic apple, fresh strawberry rhubarb, sour cherry, peach, blueberry, and mixed berry pies using traditional Amish thickening methods that produce a perfect slice every timeIconic Amish custard and molasses pies — the original shoofly pie in wet-bottom and dry-bottom versions, Montgomery pie, funeral pie, vanilla pie, oatmeal pie, and sugar cream pie — the recipes you came here forRich cream and meringue pies — coconut cream, banana cream, chocolate cream, butterscotch, lemon meringue, and peanut butter pie — made from scratch with real custard, no boxed puddingSavory farmhouse pies — traditional Amish chicken pot pie, ham and potato pie, vegetable pie, and meat pie recipes that turn humble ingredients into the most comforting meal on the tableHoliday and celebration pies — pumpkin, sweet potato, pecan, mince, cranberry apple, and Christmas cream pies that anchor every Amish gathering from Thanksgiving through New YearSpecialty Amish pies no other book covers — schnitz pie, crumb pie, half-moon pies, hand pies, slab pies, and whoopie pies — the recipes passed between families in recipe boxes and church cookbooks for over a centuryEvery recipe includes clear ingredient quantities, step-by-step method, serving suggestions, and the farmhouse notes that make each pie genuinely foolproof.
This is not a modern pie cookbook with fancy techniques. This is the real thing — 100 traditional Amish pies, exactly as they have always been made.
Scroll up and grab your copy — your kitchen is about to smell like a Lancaster County farmhouse.
