Amish Sunday morning breakfast

Have you had coffee soup yet #amishlife

[@erinaa9486]

When you said "smells like home," your face was not so happy... Interesting how smells and tastes can transport you somewhere instantly

[@lizzieenswellness]

haha it was a nostalgic moment

[@FlailTV]

It's probably quite bittersweet to have such a strong sensory memory of a life you've left behind.

[@acidwashvideo]

Smell memory is a weird thing. Sometimes those food aromas hit HARD

[@xiamengbaby]

Reminds me a bit of the "graham crackers and mush" my mom used to make us as little kids. You break up graham crackers in a bowl, sprinkle with sugar, adds some cubed Velveeta cheese and then pour your hot milk over it until it had almost an oatmeal or cream of wheat consistency. I loved that as a kid, even though everyone I've told about it thinks it sounds weird and gross.

[@ilovenoodles7483]

​@@lizzieenswellness- hi I just found your channel. I'm glad you escaped the Amish life. I am curious though, what is your religious life like now? Just because you left the Amish doesn't mean you have to go completely secular. You can still believe in God and get into a really good relationship with Jesus. And years ago, I watched a TV show about escaping Amish, it was one of the first seasons and episodes of that TV series; was that you on that reality t.v. show?

[@karenmbbaxter]

My husband's old boss was Italian and for many year after the war families were poor and stale bread with brewed coffee over it and sugar ( much like this recipe) was common or breakfast.

[@nadiaminuzzo]

My dad was italian and used to make this for us sometimes for breakfast or on early mornings before we would go on holiday. He called it cafe latte and we would have it in a bowl with rusks ( much like dried bread ) and the sweetened coffee poured over it. I still love it and it's comforting and makes me think of my childhood and my dad. Thank you for sharing a memory that is very close to my heart ❤

[@sonodiventataunalbero5576]

My grandfather was swiss German and he'd eat this every morning. It was called "kafimökli" in Swiss German, which means bread hunks and coffee 😊

[@melissam8041]

Mine was German, raised in rural Michigan, and would make this for a snack, minus the coffee.

[@MelissaThompson432]

Some of the original Anabaptists were Swiss German.

[@PCAKnight]

My Italian dad, 1st generation American, had instant oatmeal with something similar to "Coffee Soup"

[@MelissaThompson432]

At first I thought, this looks like a "struggle meal," and then I realized: no work on Sunday. It's not cooked, it's scalded, which is an "ox in the ditch" situation. Raw milk is heated for safety. And stale bread is saved for Sunday because you don't bake on Sunday, either. You soften the dry bread with scalded milk. Voila. 🙂

[@ComeGetSome5297]

It's not heated for safety.

[@AandM8]

@@ComeGetSome5297raw milk is more unsafe than hot milk that can cool…

[@ComeGetSome5297]

@@AandM8 No.

[@ajarnt9050]

The whole family ate this? I'm imagining making this for my family on Sunday morning and my daughters bouncing off the walls in church. Hahaha.

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

Very dilute coffee

[@montananerd8244]

Pre pubescent kids often calm down on caffeine actually, but don't try it willy nilly. I was given milky instant after a car wreck at 4 yrs, and chilled immediately. To this day, bad instant coffee makes me feel like the grownuppest grownup there is!

[@c.daoust1502]

I was thinking of the same... coffee to kids? Doesn't that also keep kids smaller? (And excited of course).

[@beth8775]

Mine has adhd so I *wish* he liked the taste of coffee.

[@christianandcarolynalexand9501]

@@c.daoust1502I know one person who grew up on coffee soup daily. He’s about 7 ft. tall. My family does coffee daily above like 2 years old. It has never caused hyperactivity.

[@vacafuega]

Interesting that you're restricted from wearing pins diagonally in your dress because it's too fancy, but instant coffee (highly processed industrial and using imported crops) and sugar (again imported, exotic) is considered everyday stuff. Not so long ago coffee and sugar were two of the most luxurious goods money could buy.

[@r.j.whitaker]

Religion is not ever about logic 🤔

[@MelissaThompson432]

I think it's more about personal vanity vs. practicality. WE think of plastic buckets as technology-based; THEY think of plastic buckets as inexpensive and useful; it's more of a vanity to insist on a certain aesthetic or pay more for non-plastic material. We think of instant coffee as highly processed; they think of it as a way of not breaking the Sabbath by doing work. Instant coffee doesn't have to be percolated. You don't "cook" it.

[@kray3883]

​@@MelissaThompson432But that's the point, right? It's more vanity to spend ages messing with straight pins than it would be to have a pull over dress with ties or a belt or a few buttons, it's more vanity to have a separate cape and apron and insist that the cape point be perfectly centered than it would be to just sew the cape on so you don't have to think about it every time you get dressed.

[@MelissaThompson432]

@@kray3883 yes, but you can't have vanity if everybody dresses exactly the same. 🤷

[@alousnamer]

They could all have buttons or ties for non-vain practicality. Seems like an arbitrary hodgepodge of rules, but then yeah, I guess that's kinda all religions lol@@MelissaThompson432

[@sugarspice7768]

Oh goodness. I remember my mom making this. I don't remember the salt part though. We are Eastern European immigrants. Hehehe. I can't believe my mom gave us kids coffee for breakfast. ☕ Of course it's mostly milk, just favored enough to feel special. 🙂

[@user-ze5xs7fr6e]

I am a midwife in north east Ohio and I have worked along side some midwives that serve the Amish and I didn’t believe them that the Amish eat coffee soup until like four or five plain serving midwives said it

[@lizzieenswellness]

Amazing

[@AngelaMastrodonato]

My parents grew up in rural Pennsylvania near where there are a lot of Amish people. My Mom also ate something similar as a kid, with the bread. She just called it coffee soup. I’m not a fan of soggy bread and it doesn’t appeal me, but I like French toast and bread pudding, probably because the bread gets soft on the inside but crispy on the outside

[@MelissaThompson432]

Do you think it would make a difference if it were homemade bread? The Amish bread in our area is dense (not heavy, unless it's whole wheat, just dense,) chewy, and slightly sweet/unsalted. I think it would turn out more bread-pudding-y rather than wet-bread-y.... 🤷 Idk, I've never tried it....

[@KatieBellino]

Agreed. Being thick homemade bread, it's likely to have a pudding texture.@@MelissaThompson432

[@weaviejeebies]

Y'know I was watching that thinking if you mixed an egg or two, sprinkled some cinnamon on top and hit it with the broiler, it would probably be a pretty nice, low effort bread pudding. Of course that deviates completely from the Amishness, but who am I kidding, my ancestors were Bavarian Catholics, so we improve everything with a little eggs and cinnamon. And maybe a little vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of chocolate and caramel syrup. Ja, schmeckt mir gut. 😊

[@MelissaThompson432]

@@weaviejeebies I was thinking this morning of baked French toast (either Paula Deen or Martha Stewart, some scandalous woman cook....) And that's more or less how that works, except baked and you don't tear the bread....

[@SharonKBM]

This is so interesting. My father grew up in PA and his family was very poor and there were 10 children to feed. Sometimes when the money was running low for the month, they would have a similar dish for dinner. They called it coffee soup. It had a lot less milk and sugar in it, though. It was pretty much black coffee, with a touch of milk and sugar, over toast. Imagine giving all that caffeine to children for the evening meal.

[@agathareimer2924]

We had something similar to the bread one and we called it brocken. My parents didn't grow up Amish but they grew up old colonist.

[@liza9221]

That’s funny my Italian uncle would eat that all the time for breakfast!

[@onetuliptree]

Coffee soup sounds awful when you've never had it before, but actually it is a lot like the box cereal we ate, starch, sugar, salt, flavor and milk.

[@SucculentSorcerer]

Yes I was thinking "how weird is that" for a moment, then realized it's honestly not different from my favorite breakfast as a kid, graham crackers soaked in milk. Lol.

[@conniebarber4582]

My mom used to fix coffee soup for us kids when we were growing up, usually on a Saturday morning!! Oh yes, this brings back memories!! I’m 73 now and I made this for my kids also and I still eat coffee soup now and then quite a bit!! Thank you for sharing and for the memories!!

[@bris2672]

Steamed milk, coffee, sugar.. for the most part it’s a latte! Yum. I’d just drink it and eat toast separately lol

[@mordeys]

Ok we didnt mix our up like this but EXTREMELY similar. Dad called it coffee toast. You would take a piece of toast, best if it was leftover from breakfast, then for us kids he would do over half a coffee cup of milk, sugared good and the add coffee to the rest. Then he would pour it over the toast. It was soso good. When it was really cold out or you were feeling poorly. And especially when it was flipping icy cold out and you just had to bareback down to the 2 ponds and use the pick to break up the ice on the pond..then ride back up and feed and water everything, spending twice as much time because all of the water tubs or waterers where frozen over. You come all frozen and still have to get ready to get on a bus, (in 70s there were no heaters really on busses) praying the guy on the tv would call your district number and you had the day off. Dad would be getting his last cup of coffee before work. He would rerunn the rest of the coffee and some extra water through the percolator.. then make us this.. ohh quisp was my go to breakfast food..unless dad made this. His momma used to make this for him and hers before. Strong German/ Pennsylvania Dutch/Friends families. So it was a common way to warm ppl up, use leftovers all up and not make more work with fixing more food that meant more dishes and more money.

[@bettyboop3353]

This sounds completely hideous. I’m a coffee fan to begin with and a solid made with soggy bread makes me nauseous to think about it.

[@montananerd8244]

Your dad made milk toast that his kids would eat? Iconic!!!

[@cherylriffle6871]

I'm not Amish but I grew up eating this. We called it coffee soak and always used bread in it. It was a treat for us to have once in a while.

[@thehealingfairee]

My dad (Brazilian, not Amish) woukd make this with hot chocolate instead of coffee

[@b.snow-fotomkr6132]

Interesting. When I was a young kid, among 7 kids, my parents always did not have a lot of $$ and a breakfast of bread, hot milk & sugar was our substitute for cereal or oats. My mom was of German heritage so I wonder if there was a connection.

[@aaronpatterson2369]

My Greman grandma would make something similar she called MILK TOAST. She would add brown sugar or cinnamon to make it sweet. I always liked extra butter on mine!

[@Snooty-Pookie]

My father would make this everyday, it always looked weird but it tastes great. It’s a filling ‘meal’ for tough times!

[@AandM8]

I’d be absolutely starving if this is all i got for breakfast 😅

[@michellesanford3844]

My grandpa on my adopted side of my family.. he would make a cup of coffee very similar to your soup.. but he referred to it as coffee slop.. he loved his coffee slop im the mornings..😅😅😅❤❤❤

[@kathydurow6814]

Reminds me a little of bread cereal my family had sometimes as a "treat" (cold, without the coffee & probably with more sugar). Was laughing as I instantly thought of the "healthy" types & their mocha overnight oats/chia concoctions. Also Malaysian Kopi or Kopi Tarik which is coffee & sweetened condensed milk (and evaporated milk as well, for the Tarik version).

[@cheskydivision]

My Hungarian mom used to make coffee milk and we dipped our bread in it. My dad loved a bowl Of bread with sugar and milk.

[@mariamartinusz9699]

Beaprítós. Sugar, milk, bread in a mug.👍

[@keeley2499]

We had " bread cereal" growing up when we ran out of store bought. Tear up the bread into bowl, pour on the milk, sprinkle on the sugar! The best was drinking the "sugar milk" leftover. It was fine with us kids :-)

[@sueking4541]

Cica kave! Aka Kitten Coffee. Our Hungarian mom's would make that for us on special occasions. Lots of warm milk, sugar and just enough coffee to color it. I have vague memories of bread soaked in it. But it was not made often enough for me to have clear memories of it.

[@icantcook9998]

I know plenty of Italians that had exactly the same thing but over a different type of biscuit

[@montananerd8244]

We all agree that she's using the best instant, right? I love that stuff!

[@VioletJoy]

Which one is it? I've never tasted a good instant coffee.

[@janetslater129]

That second way sounds like a really good bread pudding! I may have to try that sometime.

[@kinggkongg9694]

That’s like Great Depression type of food

[@au_barb]

My family was never Amish, but my great-grandmother had Amish neighbors she was good friends with. She'd often put a stack of saltine crackers in her saucer and pour a cup of sweet, milky instant coffee over them and eat it as a snack or light meal. I never knew where that idea came from, but I guess now I know! She also cooked a few meals that had Amish roots or influences. My favorite was her homemade chicken and noodles served over mashed potatoes. 🤤🤤

[@princesaprebava]

Your video brought back memories to my childhood. Instead of coffee we used cacao. Warm milk + sugar+ cacao over older bread pieces.

[@lilliegraham1088]

My dad was born in 1955 and recently he’s been telling me about how he always ate instant coffee poured over satines for most of his childhood. He’s not Amish or anything remotely like that. It’s kind of funny that I just came across this video. I love your videos!

[@thisbushnell2012]

The very thought of coffee raises my gorge.

[@uglenddalejones2]

Interesting. I’m from wales uk…weekends at work,someone would go ahead and heat up the milk- a huge saucepan and we’d all come for breakfast and have milky coffee and toast (I understand the similarities ended way back) and then also,when I was nursing a handful over my time of the older generation loved a cup of tea , buttered bread,broken up into a bowl and they would pour the tea over it . This reminded of years gone by. Nowhere near but it reminded me.

[@brandy4530]

This reminds me of when I was a kid. We would crumble up saltine crackers, and pour milk over it. Some of the older folks would take day old cornbread and pour milk over it. We ate it cold, like a weird cereal.

[@FloridaCracker-et5mw]

Greetings from Thailand. Years ago, I spent about a week in Indiana in the areas of Goshen, Shipshewana, and Middlebury. There was a restaurant in Middlebury named Das Dutchman Essenhause and Boy Howdy! Really, really good food. Sadly, what you made, I would not try to replicate, does not look or sound appealing. Growing up in Florida in the 60'sand 70's, we used to make whats called red eye gravy, which is made with coffee and served on grits or mashed potatoes but it's rarely made by anyone that I know of in today's world. It's basically a poor man's gravy. There might be a video on how to make it on KZbin. I don't know why your channel was recommended, but I clicked on one of your videos and have watched a few, and it's very interesting, so I subscribed.

[@sueking4541]

Das Essenhaus is still going strong in Middlebury. Shippsi is as well.😊

[@loridavis5699]

Im from SW Mi. Das Essenhaus is FABULOUS!!

[@GK-arcadia]

My husband would do the same when we had stale bread, and we're not Amish 😂

[@greeeneyes91]

I know a Czech dish which was similar .. white bread cut up, melted butter on top and a mix of poppy seeds and sugar ..

[@kaylahall1219]

Milk toast- an American classic

[@Behold_I_am_Egg]

That sounds absolutely delicious to me! I usually add sweetened creamer and salt to my instant coffee, so this recipe sounds familiar to my palate already. I bet it would be really good made with brown sugar and poured over grape nuts cereal. 😊 Or even made into bread pudding, or poured over biscotti instead of bread. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. 🙏💛

[@LiLisLounge]

I'm actually intrigued and want to try this!

[@LM-oi3sf]

A coffee shop would call that a latte and biscotte. It'd cost a fortune

[@makaylaforbes6719]

Something i still make occasionally is similar to this, but no coffee. Scalded milk on buttered salted toast. Pretty good really

[@aaronpatterson2369]

My German grandma would make us something similar to that called MILK TOAST. Throw in some brown sugar or cinnamon. I liked mine with extra butter! It was supposed to help with a sore throat but us grandkids ALWAYS requested ot for breakfast at her home!

[@makaylaforbes6719]

@@aaronpatterson2369 I loved it! Sometimes I still make it before bed. Extra butter and a bit of salt 8s the best way to have it

[@davehaggerty3405]

I was raised on raw milk. It is so much richer than processed milk. Which is watered down. Gravy and sauces were much richer.

[@norme2681]

When ever we have leftover yeast rolls we have this, reminds me of my nonna..

[@donnaraupp3833]

I love the Amish. They actually care about one another.

[@tabbyreed8925]

They aren't as nice as you think. They are pretty vicious actually and not just to the "English", to each other as well.

[@donnaraupp3833]

Are you Amish? @Tabbyreed8925

[@tabbyreed8925]

@@donnaraupp3833 No but I live around them and we have had some incidents of child abuse and a beard cutting incident that sent 3 Amish people to jail. They were infighting about something.

[@nancymiller7667]

Try being born female in the Amish. Little education, very early marriage and no say so in how many babies you have. It’s a brutal life. Also, try being a female dog in the Amish. Bred constantly to produce puppies for their awful puppy mills. Absolutely, not what they seem.

[@rachelk2457]

Instant Latte soup 😊 oh Amish why don't they just put it in a mug like everyone else? Oh I don't know cause they have to be different from the "world" I had an Amish friend when I was 9 years old. Their views are very strict but the way they properly take care of their domestic animals was caring, sweet and humane😊

[@barkertownboyz5928]

I'd try it, ill try anything once.

[@LifewithJoshandSarah]

Oh I still like my cofee sup and vosh.. Josh

[@JMijares]

Coffee soup and mush? I’m going to have to ask my Amish friends about this next time I visit with them. They know I love eating mush!

[@lizzieenswellness]

Coffee soup and vosch :)

[@JMijares]

@@lizzieenswellness 🤣 I guess my ears still need to get used to the Amish “accent”.

[@ALu-nq8rf]

I'm surprised the Amish have instant coffee

[@Churchgrimm]

At least where I am they have access to most of the groceries that the rest of the population does, but it's often through stores that are either Amish owned or owned by other plain groups such as Mennonites or Brethren which would be culturally pretty familiar. There are a handful of non-plain owned stores that they shop at, though. There's a number of "bent and dent" shops have recently/nearly expired foods that cater to plain communities. This is all besides the fact that some of the Walmarts and Targets near me have special parking spots for buggies that have stalls and hitches for the horses. (And a shovel for the sheer amount of horse poop.) For as many Amish/plain folk as there are who don't shop outside their communities, there are just as many who do.

[@KatieBellino]

Instant coffee and packaged saltines! I didn't realize that the Amish bought any grocery products.

[@lenagraham2093]

@@KatieBellinothey do. And a ton of what they purchase is over-processed and unhealthy. I strongly doubt they are knowledgable or understand how the food industry has changed over the last 80 years.

[@jennifersteffan2229]

Italians 🇮🇹 have something similar as well but with bread. WOW!!!

[@montananerd8244]

I grew up scalding milk 😂😂😂 in the 70s in town 😂 It's a practice for *raw* milk, which was not sold in town. Oh lol well better safe than sorry. Gotta scald that pasteurized milk 😂

[@kimphilpin1062]

It like milky coffee,or milk coffee as we called it when kids.

[@lisahutcherson5897]

Interesting. Thank you for sharing😊

[@kennethavesato3883]

I would like that❤ sounds great ,I would try espresso ,oh man sounds great😊😊

[@PHorne-co6pg]

WoW! From Atlanta Ga ❤

[@ritasklarchuk1819]

Cafe au lait. Italians have it all the time. Minus the salt. We also put day old bread in. Or dipped it. Began with a shot of espresso.

[@xman9963]

We call that coffee and toast where I come from 😂 Seriously though Thanx for sharing. 😊

[@nypala]

It looks exactly like the traditional Italian everyday breakfast, except that we don't use any salt and we pour espresso coffee (not instant coffee).

[@largefamilychaos1837]

I always wanted to be Amish. I lived in cochranville Pennsylvania for a little while. I kinda live the life now. I married and we have 12 children but I don't live on a farm right now hopefully one day.

[@robjdtv]

Nice. My usual breakfast is coffee and toast, but they're separate and the coffee is black.

[@CrisOnTheInternet]

I'd have think that instant coffee is a luxury.

[@AmandaLovesOldFords]

Thought*

[@vian-ij4sv]

Interesting. Like stuffing. I like it.

[@TRuth.T]

Soo funny our Amish neighbors have talked about this~ Were in WI,

[@hislivelystone]

Haha sounds like cafe con leche (cuban) which we dip our bread in or saltines too.

[@marlavaughn7083]

That’s similar to what a latte is. Just without the salt.

[@lauranorwar]

That looks delicious! I would have it with the bread! And maybe add a pinch or two of cocoa.

[@reeceandjamiesmum]

Or in the UK, a latte with a pinch of salt.

[@essence178]

Just another way to have cafe ole and bread...like it

[@user-wz7cq5td7m]

My Dad made some similiar dish for me as a kid, also with the Milk, sugar and old buns but without the coffee. Ngl I liked it very much. :D

[@Maeglin7936]

Bless you both! I know the feeling of remembering the love and the good times of what home had been. ❤❤❤❤

[@jfox9126]

When you say "Saltines", what it the store bought Saltine brand or did you make your own salt crackers?

[@josephbontrager3776]

Wie bisht du,,,,never had it,,Amiga!!!!!!❤🎉🎉

[@Djiehh]

I'm German and my father talks about his mother making something vaguely similar in his youth, mostly just leaving out the coffee. Perhaps coffee being something too rare after the war made it prohibitive to use it on such a dish.

[@jacijune]

well I think the people in that religion's ancestors originated from your side of the world so I guess traditions continued.

[@sheebathefunnyrescuedog692]

That's how I make my almond milk coffee😂 minus the bread and crackers😊

[@wendyhutchins945]

Well, I love bread and milk so I’m sure I would love that.

[@aliceschmid9697]

that was way more salt thsn a quarter tsp.

[@ilacallya324]

We call that a " bad latte"

[@tammywilshire4170]

My dad grew up on a small farm in Central Pennsylvania (we're of Irish lineage) and he tolf us thst in the mornings they'd have what they called "pap" Basically it eas same as this without the coffee using up yesterday's bread grandma baked.

[@VioletJoy]

So interesting. I can see how this would be a rather simple way to feed a large family in a Sunday morning. If cinnamon were added, it could be similar to cereal like Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

[@StuartBarclay-rm3cj]

Prefer Bacon & Eggs on a Weekend but this seems like an Amish Version of Cocoa Pops(Australian).

[@user-dg7sy8cz3b]

Caffeine, sugar, and fat. All the necessary ingredients for a quick start to a hard day of physical labor. Kinda like “ranger pudding” in the military.

[@earlystrings1]

I’m trying to make sense of “coffee soupin bosh” in Pennsylvanisch Deitsch. ‘Kaffe suppen Bosch?’ A Bosch is a wooded area which doesn’t really make much sense. Can anyone help me out here?

[@vickyschaffner2672]

Ate it as a child...no wonder i am short!

[@quiltnanny2011]

I dont care for the taste of coffee. I have other things that transport me back to my childhood.

[@stepheneisenhowerjr6753]

I live in pa and we wiuld have coffee bread for breakfast to

[@deldevours]

I'm not a coffee lover, so this looks like a terrible breakfast to start my Sunday off lol.

[@johncameron4194]

Interesting

[@territuhakaraina8932]

In my culture we would feed this to little kiddlings minus the coffee...we call it penupenu = New Zealand

[@BigGuyBoleslaw]

Tiramisu did not start out as a fancy dessert. It started out as a way to use leftover coffee and stale bread from the day before. People added sugar and liked it. Then they added milk and liked that too. Whipped cream and mascarpone cheese made it fancy and tasty. Then they used lady fingers instead of stale bread. Eventually, breakfast made from leftovers from the day before became a fancy dessert made from scratch.

[@annavetrova8200]

Where do Amish take instant coffee? Isn't it too processed?

[@karenlabedz8259]

A latte

[@angiesmith99]

Do you mind me asking, how did you guys have Instant coffee and sugar if you weren’t allowed to go groceries? I don’t think it makes much sense to me, cause some things from the modern world are acceptable and some aren’t

[@RHTQ1]

Sounds to me like this is one more thing the Amish have kept but we "English" have lost. If I had to bet a main replacement was likely cereal.

[@r.j.whitaker]

It looks kinda good, but I would just drink it from a mug.

[@wyatt12358]

KIND OF LIKE CAPPACHINO

[@kevynziemann9881]

Oh. My god.

[@jim4448]

I know when I was a kid... All we had was raw milk... Is my father had like four or five cows... Until I was about nine years old. Golden Guernsey milk.

[@PoohnTiggersMom]

Isn't this the same as dipping a baguette in Cafe au lait?

[@Happyheart146]

So it's basically like a salted caramel coffee.

[@beth8775]

So Amish latte and bread