Amana Colony Recipes – Family-size Recipes of the Foods Prepared and Served in the Amana Villages for over a Century –

“The history of the Amana Society begin sin the year 1714 in the province of Hesse near what is now Frankfort, Germany. …

Here the community existed in a pseudo-communistic order until 1932 when the holdings were reorganized into a corporation and the community kitchens, in which the recipes of this book had been used so long and so often, were a thing of he past.”