# The best Pennsylvania Dutch foods

Shoofly pie, whoopie pies, scrapple, apple butter and chicken pot pie: the German-rooted farm cooking of Lancaster County and beyond.

- 2530 votes · 15 items
- Jul 27, 2022 · Kayla Ward
- https://even.best/en/l/3753/the-best-pennsylvania-dutch-foods

## Top 15

1. **Shoofly pie** (255 · ▲270 ▼15) — Molasses pie with a crumb topping.
2. **Whoopie pie** (195 · ▲209 ▼14) — Two soft chocolate cakes sandwiching a creamy filling.
3. **Scrapple** (176 · ▲194 ▼18) — Pork scraps and cornmeal loaf, sliced and fried.
4. **Apple butter** (152 · ▲167 ▼15) — Slow-cooked spiced apple spread.
5. **Funnel cake** (138 · ▲162 ▼24) — Fried batter swirls dusted with sugar.
6. **Chicken pot pie** (133 · ▲153 ▼20) — A stew of chicken with square egg noodles, not a pastry pie.
7. **Lebanon bologna** (133 · ▲153 ▼20) — Smoked, tangy beef sausage.
8. **Hamloaf** (122 · ▲143 ▼21) — Meatloaf made with ham and bread crumbs.
9. **Fastnachts** (112 · ▲138 ▼26) — Doughnuts made before Lent.
10. **Apple dumplings** (103 · ▲127 ▼24) — Whole apples baked in pastry.
11. **Pot roast** (91 · ▲113 ▼22) — Slow-braised beef.
12. **Chicken corn soup** (74 · ▲98 ▼24) — Soup with chicken, corn and rivels.
13. **Rivels** (72 · ▲100 ▼28) — Little egg-and-flour dumplings for soups.
14. **Gingerbread and ginger snaps** (64 · ▲89 ▼25) — Spiced ginger baking.
15. **Birch beer** (60 · ▲89 ▼29) — Soft drink flavoured with birch bark.

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