The Lehr Tabernacle and Prairie Bible Camp completed an impressive cookbook – “This cookbook is dedicated to our German-Russian Heritage and our Christian forefathers who saw the importance of worshipping God and building a special meeting place, such as the Tabernacle.” There are many ethnic German-Russian recipes.
Breads, Muffins and Brunch include: Brod Kuechla (Fry Bread), Caramel Rolls, Sauerkraut Rye Bread; Soups and Salads: Cabbage Salad, Dumplings for Soup, German Potato Salad, Ham and Cabbage Soup, Hamburger Cabbage Soup, Kartoffelsalat (Potato Salad), Knoephla Soup, Mom’s Kraut Salad, Potato Pancakes, Potato Salad, Potato Soup, Rivel Soup, Tomato Dumpling Soup.
Vegetables and side dishes include: Baked Rice Pudding, Cheese Buttons (Kase Knoephla), Creamed Cabbage, Dampfnudla (Bread Dumplings), Dumplings, Easy Cheese Buttons, German Strudel, Knoblauch Babushka (Garlic Buns), Lazy Cheese Buttons, Mom’s Stirrum, Ram Noodla, Schnietzaknip, Shoup Noodle (Shoot Noodles), Strudels, Strudla.
Main Dishes and Meats include: Bread Dressing, Cabbage Patch Beef, Cabbage Rolls, Chicken Noodle Hot Dish, Cream of Chicken, Creamed Chicken Casserole, Filled Noodles, Fleisch Klechle, German Style Hamburgers, Goetta (Sausage and Oats), Kraut Peroga, Noodle Hot Dish, Runza, Sauerkraut & Knephla Hotdish.
Bars, Desserts, Cakes, Pies and Frostings include: 5-Generation Apple Pie, 5-Generation Rhubarb Custard Pie, Apple Dumplings, Apple Strudel, Bread Machine Kuchen, Cream Puffs, Delicious Potato Doughnuts, Grandma Florence’s Pie Crust, Great-Grandma Sarah Old Time Pie Crust (Piekruste), Hochzeit (Wedding) Kuchen, Homemade Chocolate Pudding, Kuchen Dough, Kuchen Bars, Pumpkin Plachenda, Schlitz Kuechle (German Donut), Sugar Kuchen, Wedding Kuchen, Zucherkuchen.
Cookies and candies include: Alda’s Honey Cookies, Ammonia Cookies (Hirschonsaltz – this means Ammonia in German), Date Filled Cookies, Grandma Esther’s Chocolate Nut Caramels, Honey Cookies, Molasses Cookies, Peffernusse Cookies, Rhubarb Cookies.
Other recipes include: Beef Sausage, Beef Summer Sausage, Chokecherry Jam, Dill Pickles, Egg Coffee, Erberle Ice Cream (Hausgemacht Speise Eis), Homemade Cheese, Kinderbrie (Children’s Custard), Pickled Beets, Refrigerator Pickles, Solar Dill Pickles, Sweet Cucumber Pickles, Watermelon Pickles, Were Family Pickle Recipe.
Families who provided the recipes include these German names: Aman, Bader, Barnick, Bechtle, Becker, Bittner, Bredwick, Breittling, Brosz, Buchholz, Buck, Dobler, Dockter, Eisenbarth, Entzie, Erbele, Fandrich, Fetzer, Finck, Fischer, Frey, Gall, Gieszler, Glaesman, Gross, Hauff, Hensley, Herman, Herr, Hoffman, Hulscher, Inselman, Kapp, Kautz, Kelsch, Ketterling, Kramlich, Kreuger, Mayer, Merkel, Mettler, Metz, Miller, Mittleider, Musser, Nagel, Nies, Pfaff, Rau, Roesler, Rudolph, Ruff, Schrock, Schumacher, Schweigert, Stickelmyer, Ulmer, Werth, Woehl and Zimmerman.
