We’ve cooked up an entire tour focused on our world renowned PA Dutch culinary delights… from chow chow to whoopie pies! We’ll not only show you how we make each dish, but we’ll also provide your group with some hands-on cookin' time of their own!
Cooking Demonstration
At Plain & Fancy Farm Restaurant, we pull the chef out of the kitchen for an exclusive, behind-the-scenes food demonstration at the very dining room that made Penn Dutch family-style dining famous. Our chef chooses one or two people from the group to help us prepare local specialties that all will soon enjoy….chicken pot pie, shoofly pie and who knows what else? It may get a little messy, but we’ll have everyone laughing, and hungry, before we finish.
NEW option for 2010 --- The Bizarre Foods Demonstration.
For something new, and guaranteed different, join the cooks for the secrets behind some of our more unusual, even unheard of, local specialties ---- with samples for those who dare! Do cup cheese, pork souse, scrapple, and calf’s foot jelly mean anything to you?
Food Tasting Tour
A certified Amish Country Tour guide will step on your bus for visits to three nearby stops. Each stop is interactive for everyone in the group. Enjoy a chance to sample local jams, jellies, and relishes. Tour a pretzel factory and try twisting your own pretzel. And then, participate in an “old world” wine-tasting as a final appetizer before dinner.
Family-Style Dinner
At Plain & Fancy, it’s now time to enjoy your all-you-can-eat dinner served at long tables “right in the barn.” Here you will sample most of the foods you’ve learned about, and many more…. fresh breads, pepper cabbage, and chow chow --- golden fried chicken, country sausage, eye round of beef --- buttered noodles, dried corn, and chicken pot pie --- shoofly pie, apple dumplings, chocolate cake, ice cream and, believe it or not, there is more!
A Special Gift
As a souvenir, everyone takes home an authentic, personally inscribed Amish cookbook. We say "authentic" because it’s written, illustrated, and personally signed by an Amish friend of ours. That way you can try some Amish Country Cookin’ when you return home!
Food Tasting Tour
A Special Gift