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Publisher Notes: This book also comes in paperback which you can find by visiting www.amishrecipes.org/paperback.
This cookbook has over 900 recipes from my Amish family.

INTRODUCTION
Hello, my name is Joseph Slabaugh, and I want to thank you for your purchase of this fundraising cookbook. A portion of money raised will be used for my cousin’s tumor operation.

My family is mostly still Amish, although I have not been Amish since I was 18 and left to live with my cousin and brother.

I started a Facebook group a few years ago to share some Amish recipes with fellow Ex-Amish people, and then after 2 years, suddenly, in a 6 week period it blew up from 500 members to 5500 members. Currently the My Amish Recipes Facebook Group has over 33,000 members.

The idea for this project came due to members’ requests for cookbooks with Amish recipes, and I found that my cousin had such a cookbook, and bought and sold some on the group over the first 2 years, and then in 2013, I moved out of state, and was out of supplies, so I was planning to be in Ohio for the Former Amish Reunion, and picked up 43 copies, with ten copies already pre-sold, and besides donating a couple to two ladies, one whose house had burned down, I sold the rest in a 2 month period. And having permission from my cousin, I contacted the publisher about getting more copies, but it turned out to be more economical to go with another publisher, so now, I hope I can help my cousin with her medical bills through the sale of this cookbook.