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How do I make Amish butter spread?

I went to Amish country with a friend years ago, and at lunch we had the most wonderful spread for the home made bread. I'm thinking it had peanut butter and marshmallow fluff, but I'm not sure of the proportions. Does anyone have a recipe for this?

We use 16 oz. of peanut butter to about 8 oz. marshmallow cream and 8 oz. of corn syrup. This recipe is approximate, and we usually go by color and texture. You can tell by looking at it if it's the way you like it. We, too, had this at an Amish restaurant, and tried to imitate the recipe. We finally figured out the mystery ingredient was corn syrup!

Now it's true that when one talks about custom made anything, it immediately rings dollar bells; making people presume that it is something really expensive we are talking about, something that does not make much economic sense. Yet when you give it some thought, it is easy to see why custom kitchen cabinet make eminent sense; in terms of convenience and comfort of use as well as in terms of affordability. This is because a custom cabinet does not by definition mean something that is designed and built for you from scratch; it merely means a custom cabinet that has been altered or modified in a way that bests suits your requirements, your purposes and as importantly, the dimensions of the room that you want to furnish. The benefits of custom furniture are obvious and many:

No Compromise: You don't have to compromise when it comes to the furniture that you want. Whereas readymade furniture will have some or other aspect that fails to please, or which is superfluous or which quite simply does not fit, with custom built items you have no such problem. For instance if you require the drawers to be just so, and have the specifications that you cannot find elsewhere, you can make sure that you can get items made to your specification. If you want that your kitchen cabinets should have x number of drawers of a particular kind and x number of drawers of another, then when you customize, you will have precisely what you require, as against having to make do with what is available.

Custom Cabinets Fit Perfectly: Sometimes we have an unusually large or unusually small space within which we are required fit a particular piece of furniture into. Or you have a room with an unusual shape, an uncommonly shaped alcove or section for which you may find it difficult if not impossible to find furniture. With customized furniture you don't have to bother about finding the furniture to fit the room and its dimensions. With furniture that is made to order, you can be sure of finding the exact match for your particularly requirements.

You can make sure that you get exactly what you want; what you need: Sometimes you need to buy only some of the furniture and want that the new furniture that you buy matches and blends in with the existing pieces. Now this is difficult to do, since finding an exact match may be difficult. However when you order one or more custom cabinets you have full say in the color, style, trim and molding details, the kind of wood or raw materials chosen, and the finish style as well.

It is Unique: When you order custom cabinets, you can be reasonably sure that no one else has anything that is exactly like that. You can be sure that what you have is unique, and one of a kind; none of the mass produced, generic variety of furniture for you; which can all look like peas in a pod!

This is why custom furniture makes good economic sense and in the long run may even end up saving you money!

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Wrought Iron Hook Medium S- Lot 3 Hand Made $9.00 This is our versatile medium "S"hook. It measures 4 3/4 inches in length and the hooks are about 1 1/2 inches wide. The hook opening is about 7/8 inches and the thickness is 1/4 inch--very sturdy-will not bend. These are great with our candle chandeliers!...

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Amish Made Biothane Draft Horse Team Harness $999.00 Custom made draft horse team harness - will be made to order - buyers choice of biothane or beta - buyers choice of hame size - collars not included but available for sale. This is made by our Amish harness shop in Iowa. Full set of team harness for full size drafts - very adjustable. Also available in haflinger and standard horse size same price....