GOING TO THE AMISH

When I went down to Nashville, Tn. this fall my son took me to the Amish who live outside of Nashville. I had always heard of the Amish and have always wanted to go there. I can say one thing, they are the most friendly people I have ever met to not even know us. We went to several different houses to buy some of their goods. We went on the wrong day tho as they were not doing any baking.. I think they bake on Saturday. But they had some things to sell.
They have a place like a big flea market where they come to on Sat. and set up and sell their baked goods and candies and butter and etc. We missed this. I hope next time I can get to go to this. We did get some fresh big and I mean big brown eggs and candies . They had all kinds of apple butter and peach butter and jellys ,canned goods but as I can I did not need any of this. They had already sold their corn and garden stuff and just had mainly pumpkins.
The children were so nice. They were playing like we all used to do when growing up out in the yard. Now most kids just sit in the house in front of a tv and really don't know what real playing is. Some of them were taking care of the stores.
We bought some candy that was so good made out of rice krispies. I think they were called Snowball candy. One of the ladies told us how to make them and I will be posting a recipe I found that are like them. They are different and really good they are almost like a rice krispy bar but use coconut in them and peanut butter and are really crunchy.
We saw the men and women driving their buggys and it is a simple life and a good life. I thought they live almost like us except we do have electric and city water. We are country like them.We also have our gardens and can just like them. But we have cars and trucks and go different places in them where they don't.
One of the houses was having a stir off making molasses. I had always heard about this from my father-in-law. It was something to see and they were made fresh. We bought some of them but I sure wish now I had bought more of them. They came in a little tan jug. Not in a jar. Not any corn syrup added to them. I have made some of the best gingerbread biscuits out of it. The ladies let us taste a sample of them and they had the foam there also. I don't know what they do with it. They were straining it. If you get a chance go down and watch this. I was down there about Oct. the 8th. I will post some recipes I have of their candy and  main dishes.
I really did enjoy this. I hope to get to go back down in the spring when all the garden stuff is in.