OLD-FASHIONED Pennsylvania Dutch SCRAPPLE — Crispy, Savory & So EASY!

🔗 Save $6,000 A Year with My Complete Amish Home-Saving Method I teach: https://eliasyoder.com Of all the dishes I have shown you, this one is the closest to my own bones, for it is the food of my own people, the Pennsylvania Dutch, and it comes straight from the oldest wisdom we carry, to waste not one scrap of what God provides. Scrapple. The name tells the whole story, for it comes from scrap, the clever use of the bits of the hog that would otherwise be lost, the meaty bones and trimmings boiled down to a rich broth and tender meat, thickened with cornmeal into a loaf, sliced and fried crisp and golden for breakfast. Most folk have never had it made right. Let an old Dutchman show you the true way. Now, do not look down on the humble parts, for the whole glory of scrapple is that it takes the lowly scraps and makes them wonderful, that it fed a family well and cheaply from what others would discard. There is a dignity in wasting nothing, and scrapple is that dignity you can hold in your hand and fry in a pan. INGREDIENTS (makes 2 to 3 loaves) Meaty pork bones and trimmings (from butchering, or about 3 lb pork shoulder with some bone) Water, enough to cover (about 3 to 4 quarts) 2 cups cornmeal 1 cup buckwheat flour (the true Dutch way; or more cornmeal) 1/2 cup wheat flour (optional, for body) 1 tablespoon salt, or to taste 2 teaspoons black pepper 1 teaspoon dried sage (or savory, thyme, marjoram) Lard or fat, for frying Here is what you will learn: ✔ What scrapple truly is (the waste-nothing wisdom of butchering day) ✔ The long slow bone boil that makes the rich broth and tender meat ✔ Why you keep the broth (it is liquid gold) ✔ The cornmeal-and-buckwheat grain that makes a true Dutch scrapple ✔ How to stir the grain in slow so it never clumps ✔ How to cook it thick until it pulls from the pot ✔ How to season it well (sage and the old pork herbs) ✔ Why it sets firm into a sliceable loaf (the gelatin from the bones) ✔ The patient fry that gives the deep