Hi, I’m Elias Yoder.
I grew up around kitchens where food was made from scratch, nothing was wasted, and every meal had a purpose. Before ready-made dinners and expensive groceries became normal, families knew how to cook simple food that stretched far, filled bellies, and brought people together.
On this channel, I share the old cooking methods I was raised around — practical, homemade recipes built on simple ingredients, careful hands, and knowledge passed down through generations.
Here you’ll find videos about traditional Amish cooking, homemade bread, hearty family meals, pantry staples, canning, preserving, cast iron cooking, from-scratch desserts, soups, stews, and the forgotten kitchen skills people used every day.
My goal is to help you cook more at home, waste less food, save money, and bring back the kind of meals families used to gather around.
New videos uploaded regularly.
Subscribe if you want to learn the old ways of cooking that people stopped talking about.