Slavic immigrants to the Coal Region brought this age-old art form with them as they settled into patch towns and began to work in the […]
Author: A Coalcracker in the Kitchen
Traditional Amish Whoopie Pies
Sometimes a taste, sound, scent, or memory tightly ties two places or things together in your life in a way you’d least expect. Such is […]
Pennsylvania Dutch Milk Pie
Milk Pies are a classic example of the “waste not, want not” frugality of life in many old Pennsylvania Dutch and Coal Region homes. This […]
Groundhog Day and The Pennsylvania Dutch Connection
On February 2, 1887, Groundhog Day, featuring a rodent meteorologist, is celebrated for the first time at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Groundhog Day is perhaps one […]
Traditional Paczki
Paczki (PAWNCH-kee or POONCH-kee) are deep-fried pieces of dough shaped into flattened spheres, fried, then filled. They bear a similarity to North American Bismarcks or […]
Peep Bunny Race Cars
In the Coal Region, the store shelves will be stocked full of Peeps, the classic marshmallow candy, in the shape of chicks and bunnies in […]