Lebanon Baloney, aside from being a meat sausage, has nothing in common with the mass-market standardized version of baloney sold throughout North America: it just ended up with the same name. It is to better to compare it with German salamis. Lebanon baloney is a dark maroon coloured, semi-coarse, semi-dry luncheon meat with a tangy,…
Pennsylvania Food
Scrapple
Scrapple is a grey-coloured American meat loaf made from ground cooked pork, cornmeal, seasonings and stock. It is a variant of Head Cheese and Souse. It is somewhat similar to the concept of haggis, except that pork and cornmeal are used instead of sheep and oatmeal. It is made by the Pennsylvanian Dutch, and is…
Shoofly Pie
Shoofly Pie is an open-faced pie made by particularly by Amish people of German heritage in Pennsylvania (known misleadingly as the Pennsylvania “Dutch.”) A take on treacle tart, it is like Molasses Pie, but with crumbs in it. It is one of the simplest pies around in terms of its filling, which is molasses, boiling…
Sweet Baloney
Sweet Baloney is Lebanon-style baloney, but with brown sugar added to the recipe to sweeten it. Like Lebanon baloney, it is really more of a smoked sausage than standard North American baloney. Sweet Baloney is a dark maroon colour, with flecks of spices, and larger flecks of white fat in it, and has a slightly…