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Jean is old order Mennonite from New York State. Jean and her husband David and family live on a dairy farm, and travel their community using horse and buggy. She tells her story exclusively on Amish Stories.
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One of the questions I was asked is "does Old Order Mennonite have rummsprings"? No we do not practice Rumspringa like the Amish, but again young folks will be young folks. The Old Order Mennonites have dinners where all the young folks between the ages of 16 and older attend. They are usually games like soft ball and volley ball there. Also, they do singing. Once in a while they may go on day trips like to Niagara Falls, Corning Glass Works, and others. Also they have maybe get a group together to go fishing.
It use to be that just the boys went fishing, but now some girls go also. During the winter they may go skiing or sledding. What I have told you is just a few of the things the Old Order Mennonite have for their young folks. They do this so the young folk will stay away from the ways of the world. Parents or newly married keep an eye on these activities. Many of the young folks meet their future spouse's here and do not go out in the world.
Not all of them. Recently one of Martha and Joseph's son's, who had bought a car, took some of his friends to Niagara Falls to see the man walk the tight rope across the falls. He told them where he was going, who was with him and when he would be back. David was telling me he would never let David Jr. do that when he got older. I couldn't help but laugh as David owned a car and had his drivers license when I first met him. We also smoked cigarettes, went to movies and friends parties that parents never knew about-or so we thought. At one time or another we had at least one drink.
When David and I started courting - he sold the car, and turned in his drivers license. We stopped going to those places. No smoking. No movies. No more parties without parents there and more. The funny part is that after we were married, David's parents told us they knew what we were doing including the car. We had our time in the outside world.
What worries us is there are worse things in the world today. Drugs were only in the big cities when we were young, now it is everywhere. Violent people are also another we will have to watch when our children getting older. We have guns for hunting, but that is the only time we use them. We watch over Michael and Edward more because of these.
Be With God,
Jean
Ground Cherry Pie
2 1/2 cups pitted ground cherries
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon water
1 (9-inch) pie shell
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
2 tablespoons butter
Heat oven to 425 degrees F.
Wash ground cherries and place in unbaked pie shell.
Mix brown sugar and 1 tablespoon flour and sprinkle over cherries. Sprinkle water over top.
Mix together the 3 tablespoons flour and 3 tablespoons sugar. Cut butter in until crumbly. Top cherry mixture with crumbs.
Bake for 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees F and continue to bake for 25 minutes. Recipe from www.Recipegoldmine.com
