Thresher's Dinner
Sit down under the hand-hewn timbers of the Restaurant Barn and enjoy Amish Acres nationally famous Threshers Dinner, a family style feast of Amish country favorites. 
In tribute to the generations of Amish threshers who band together each harvest season to cut and thresh, thus separating the grain from the chaff, each other's crops in friendship and neighborliness, this feast is reminiscent of the hearty fare cooked up by the women in the wood fired stoves, bake ovens, and smoke houses of the host farm in time for the noontime break in the threshing day. Often served out of doors under the shade of orchard trees, the Threshers Dinner was and remains among the best of all worlds. More...
Shoofly Pie
Within a year of the arrival of the first Quakers from England to establish Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mennonites settled in nearby Germantown. The Mennonites and related Anabaptist sects became known as the Pennsylvania Dutch. The farmers market in Lancaster was established in perpetuity by royal charter of George II in 1742.
Rudyard Kipling was inspired to write that the Pennsylvania Dutch lived "as peaceful as Heaven might be if they farmed there." Whether these Germans invented fruit pies remains possible but unanswered. There is full agreement that Shoofly pie, in its original form, that of a sponge cake baked in a crust, came from Pennsylvania Dutch ovens. The heavy molasses filling made it the sweetest pie cooling on the window sill, its popularity among the flies being insured. It is all a feast of Amish country favorites served at oil cloth covered tables with enameled chairs.
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