The Amish

History

The Amish came from the 16th century fellowship known as the Swiss brethren, The Swiss Brethren were Anabaptist, which were a part of the reformation. Anabaptist means "one who baptizes again". In the early 18th century, many Amish and Mennonites moved to Pennsylvania to escape persecution. Today, most of the Amish decedents continue to speak Pennsylvania German, even still today. 

The Amish are very family oriented, Amish believe that it is a blessing from god to haves a large family. The purposes of family can be shown within the Amish culture in lots of different ways. The family has control over the lower generations throughout their life. Ironically a church district is measured by the number of families, rather than by the number of actual baptized members, that's how important family is to them. Families always like to hold a weekly worship service, but every week it is held by a different family. They say that they are responsible to God for how spiritual their kids are

Rumspringa
When an Amish teenager turns 16 they are sent out to experience the "English world".
The teenagers leave their Amish community and go looking to have fun. but when they return they will have to choose whether or not they want to stay in there community or leave it for good
while they are off having fun, many of them end up drinking and doing drugs like Methamphetamine or marijuana and then decide not to go back to their community

Technology
The Amish have a very simplistic life style, they don't really encourage wearing  fashionable clothing, or having stylish hair cuts. everything to them is to be plain and simple. The Amish prohibit the use of anything that uses electricity which includes, automobiles, computers, and even cellphones or home phones. The people can still find ways around their rules, if they know someone with a car they will still drive in it, but only because they are not the ones driving.  The Amish typically travel by horse and cart.  They are hard workers and do most things manually because of their opposition to technology.  

The resources I used are the devils playground which is a documentary about Amish people,I watched several episodes of breaking Amish which is a TV documentary about how kids are leaving the Amish community, and I did lots of internet research about the Amish  and I spent some time watching you-tube videos about them, to learn more about them I think it would be a good idea to actually spend a day in an Amish community, and really get to see what they are like.







Devils Playground-77 minutes

Breaking Amish-2 hours

you tube videos-1.5 hours

Online research 1.9 hours

pie

We started off with making the pie crust. for this we mixed flow butter, shortening and salt together kneaded it up and rolled it out.
For the filling we started with chopping potatoes up into small chunks.
We boiled them in a chicken broth mixture and we also added a mixture of corn starch, soy sauce, and water. We boiled them together until it got really thick. Then we lined a pie plate with the pie crust and poured the filling in. After we put the filling on the pie we put another sheet of rolled out dough on top of the pie and put it in the oven. When it got out it looked really good, the crust was nice and crispy, besides the potatoes being a bit hot it was very good.



Greek roasted potatoes

For the Greek roasted potatoes we mixed together, oil, water, salt, Greek seasoning, and chicken flavored seasoning.
after mixing that all together we chopped up potatoes into quarters, and also unions. We put the potatoes and unions in a pan and added some garlic cloves, and then poured in the mixture of spices in water.
We put it in the oven for 40 mutates and then took it out. Most of the water had boiled out and there was just the oil left on the bottom.

cookies

We started with making brown sugar cookies, all we did is just mix butter egg brown sugar vanilla and butter
and then ad that mixture to flour and baking powder.
Once we kneaded it into a ball we rolled it out, cut it with cookie cutters, and baked it. The cookies turned out really brown and a bit burned.
The next Bach we made was using normal sugar instead of brown sugar, the dough was a much lighter color, and they turned out much better.
For Bach number 3 we used soft margarine instead of butter, these cookies didn't turn out nearly as good. The dough was really oily and crumbly, and we couldn't use cookie cutters on the dough because it would fall apart when we tried to move it, so we just rolled them into balls and flattened them onto the pan, They didn't taste very good either.
The last ones we made were the half apple sauce and half egg ones. these cookies turned out the best, they had more flavor then any other cookies that I tried.
Even the full apple sauce ones didn't taste as good,
unfortunately I didn't get to taste all of everyone's cookies but I did try a lot of them.