More from the Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking cookbook

[chamisa.livejournal.com]

Here's a few more recipes, involving cabbage, from this entry.

Comments

[alagbon.livejournal.com]

Es iss Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch (http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsilfaanisch_Deitsch)!

[i-hate-music.livejournal.com]

fascinating stuff :D

[alagbon.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. I don't really have any roots in this area but the distinct language and culture fascinates me.

[i-hate-music.livejournal.com]

It looks a bit like Swiss German to me......

[alagbon.livejournal.com]

A fair amount of the earliest German-speaking settlers around here were from Switzerland, although most were from the Palatinate. I've never heard anyone speak actual Palatinate dialect; but I've spent time in Switzerland and there's definitely a resemblance to Schweitzerdeutsch.

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

My husband is from the Palatinate, and I can understand the dialect reasonably well- probably better than a lot of native German speakers, who find it utterly incomprehansible. I've tried to listen to Schweitzerdeutsch and find it extremely hard to understand anything.

Having listened to a few recordings of Pennsylvania Dutch being spoken, I found that I could understand a resonable amount. My husband would understand more and he'd certainly be able to have a pretty reasonable conversation.

[alagbon.livejournal.com]

Since the only non-standard German dialect that I'm at all familiar with is Swiss, I'm probably seeing more of a closeness than there actually is...