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Amish Wash Day Dinner is a Busy Day Timesaver for You

Amish Wash Day Dinner is a Busy Day Timesaver for You
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As you might imagine, a traditional Amish Wash Day is filled with activity - and not much goes on in the kitchen. This is a delicious, slow-baking dinner that frees you up to work on other projects.

Amish Wash Day Dinner

Sarah Nussbaum

A delicious, slow-baking dinner that frees you up to prep other things for the Thanksgiving feast later this week.

Ingredients

  • 1 Tbsp. butter

  • 1 large onion, sliced

  • potatoes, peeled and sliced

  • 2 Tbsp. flour

  • 1 can tomato juice (store-bought or home-canned)

  • Sliced sausage (country-style or Italian)

  • boiling water

  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Using a roasting pan or dutch oven, melt butter in the pan and line the bottom with a layer of onion.

  2. Place potatoes on top of onion.

  3. Sift flour over potatoes.

  4. Pour tomato juice over all and cover with sliced sausage.

  5. Add boiling water to cover and salt and pepper to taste.

  6. Bake slowly at 300 degrees for 3 hours. Turn meat if it gets too brown.
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Sarah Nussbaum

Sarah Nussbaum

Sarah Nussbaum is an Ohio-based writer, wife, mom of four children, and aspiring homesteader. She enjoys singing, baking, gardening, home preserving and projects around her family’s 180-year-old farmhouse.

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