Grace Lutheran Church Cookbook

Grace Lutheran Church ACT, Lehr, North Dakota, 1983, 246 pages, softcover.
$25.00

The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection (GRHC) is pleased to provide the Grace Lutheran Church Cookbook prepared in 1983 by members of the Grace Lutheran Church ACT, Lehr, ND, where there is a large population of ethnic Germans from Russia. This cookbook has been reprinted with permission from the organization.

This cookbook contains a special section entitled “German Foods” on pages 35 – 40. However, German-Russian recipes appear throughout the cookbook including: Ammonia Cookies (Various Recipes), Anise Cookies, Apple Dumplings, Cheese Buttons, Dumplings, Egg Noodles, German Kuchen, German Strudel, Kraut Burrishee, Kuchen Dessert, Kuchen Dough, Kuchen (Various Recipes), Pickled Watermelon (Various Recipes), Pepper Nut Cookies (Various Recipes), Pfeffernuesse Cookies, Pickled Headcheese, Potato and Ham Kniples, Pumpkin Blachinda, Rivel Soup, Russian Dill Pickles (Various Recipes), Sauerkraut Bundles, Sauerkraut and Knepla, Schlitz Kuechle, Strudels (Various Recipes), and Wedding Kucka.

This cookbook contains additional sections, such as, Appetizers and Pickles; Breads; Salads and Soups; Desserts and Toppings; Cakes and Frostings; Cookies and Bars; Pies; Candies; Meats, Vegetables and Casseroles; and Miscellaneous.

German-Russian family names contributing to the cookbook include Bauer, Bender, Bittner, Boschee, Dalke, Dallman, Denning, Essig, Fiechtner, Gebhardt, Goebel, Grimm, Hoirup, Iszler, Janke, Kauk, Koepplin, Kruckeberg, Lautt, Lepp, Mayer, Meidinger, Ost, Rath, Roesler, Sayler, Schauer, Schlueter, Schnabel, Sperling, Widmer, and Werre.