Singing Mennonite Mom
Meet Viola Friesen, a Mennonite mom from Spanish Lookout who is blessing those around her by singing acapella from her home.
A. Mendoza
Mennonite Foods
The Old Colony, Kleine Gemeinde, and Old Order have a diet which mainly consists of homemade bread, cottage cheese, noodles, pork, potatoes, and stewed beans. Milk is used in many of their meals, such as casseroles and faspa foods. Some dishes from the Plautdietsch groups are: nuddelsuppe: noodle soup made with home-made noodles werenaki: (perogies see picture above ) made of pockets of flour with glums (cottage cheese) filling, schmaunfat (white gravy made of flour, milk and black pepper), and formavorscht (pork sausage). The perogies are then boiled and served. I recommend it to anyone who wants to try out Plautdietsch foods although I prefer the fried ones. Cheesy or creamy casseroles: often it will contain meat and cream with potatoes or macaroni borscht: a vegetable soup with bits of meat sometimes added to it Clops: patties from either ground meat or potatoes And then there is that unique Mennonite meal known as faspa, a late afternoon snack or earl
