![]() Make the broth by boiling together one cleaned hog’s head* with heart and liver and pieces of pork. (If you ain’t Dutch, you ain’t much! hahaha) It’s from The Art of Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking, a cookbook my Dutchy grandmother gave me back in 1980. If you don’t have any place to buy scrapple, then make some yourself. This scrapple is delicious! (And see how yellow-orange our fresh farm eggs are?) If you are lucky enough to be able to find ready made scrapple, fry it crisp and enjoy it with eggs or just with maple syrup and buttered toast. BINGO! There, through the foggy glass doors, was SCRAPPLE! And RING BOLOGNA, for heavens sake! HA! Here is a picture of our breakfast the next morning. Now, I grew up in Amish country in Pennsylvania and, even though the owner of this store was of the Amish sect in Ohio, you’ve got to know that the first thing I thought of was that maybe they would have some of that good food that I’ve missed so much! I walked through aisles of the most beautiful handmade furniture and leather goods, past the quilts and dolls, and headed straight for the large refrigerators. Two weeks ago I was driving through busy Broad Street in Camden on my way home from checking on the bees at OMF, when I saw that a new store had opened, and I zipped right into the nearest parking space because I sure couldn’t pass up a visit to Schmucker’s Amish General Store! Wow! (I never knew how many Revolutionary War battles were fought in South Carolina till we moved here!) (It’s called The Old Wagon Road, and you can read more about that HERE.) It also takes me through our historic town of Camden, SC, where you can still visit the historic Battle of Camden site from the Revolutionary War. That 50 minute drive takes me through beautiful South Carolina farm land, and much of it follows the exact route early European settlers traveled from Philadelphia to Charleston. (I’ll give you the recipe towards the end of this post.)Įvery week I drive to Old McCaskill’s Farm (OMF) in Rembert, South Carolina, where we have a small apiary of three bee hives. Now a Greensboro, North Carolina sausage maker, Neese’s, makes delicious scrapple, but back then the only way I could get scrapple in South Carolina was to make my own. When we moved here to South Carolina in the summer of 1985, besides my grandmother, the thing I missed most about Pennsylvania Dutch Country was the food, and scrapple was on the top of that list. ![]()
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