Meals in Amish Homes

ACM Tours can arrange for you and your group to enjoy a traditional Amish style meal, right in an Amish home.

Amish ladies are very familiar with cooking for large groups. They often join together to cook for benefits, weekly church services, and extended family gatherings. Actually, with most Amish families having many children, as soon as grandchildren arrive, the family gatherings can become quite large.

While our hosts usually require a group of ten or more, because we have many groups already scheduled, we can often add smaller groups and families onto an already scheduled meal. Of course our hosts require some advance notice to cook the extra food, but as long as the fire is lit, we can easily add more chicken to the fryer and another pie to the oven. Meal plans can be changed (added to or reduced in number if your plans change) up to 72 hours in advance of the meal date.

The filling meals are served family style, on traditional benches, right in the kitchen. Arthur Amish houses have large rooms, often with removable walls to accommodate large gatherings. We can seat up to 110 people at one serving in some of our homes. The meals offer two meats, vegetable, sides, homemade bread, drinks and plenty of homemade pie. You will not go away hungry!

For groups of ten or more, advance notice of 7 days is requested. However, give us a call if your plans are quicker. We'll try to fit you in.

Your host will appreciate a group or silent personal prayer before the meal, and she if always on hand and love to chat after the meal.

Remember that in the summer, the Amish have no air conditioning or electric fans. Occasionally on a hot summer day the meal area can be quite warm. A summer meal in an Amish kitchen can remind us of our past and help us to appreciate what we have back home. But, unless someone in your group has serious health problems, don't be scared off by this paragraph. Out here in the country, it is not that far back to when all of us enjoyed the summer this way.

Meals can be arranged at any time, however most common are mid-day dinners(noon to 1pm) and evening suppers 4-6pm. Whenever we schedule your meal, you need to allow time to arrive in Arthur at least a half hour prior, to get directions and then drive out to the country to the hosts home.

A true Amish Country Experience!

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