This make a tasty meal served up with a side salad and Berlin Natural Bakery Spelt Breadsticks or Spelt Dinner Rolls

1 pound bulk sausage (we like savory sage sausage)
1 medium onion (chopped)
¾ cup chopped green pepper
1 cup chopped celery
1 14 ½ ounce can tomato sauce
1 14 ½ ounce can stewed tomatoes chopped into pieces*
2 teaspoons Worchestershire sauce
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 bag Berlin Natural Bakery Amish Country Spelt Noodles

In a large skillet, combine sausage, onion, celery and peppers. Cook until sausage is done and the vegetables are tender. Remove excess fat. Add tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, Worchestershire sauce and brown sugar. While sauce simmers, cook your spelt noodles in a pan of boiling water until tender (approximately 4 – 5 minutes). Drain water from noodles and add noodles to skillet with sauce. Stir and serve immediately.

*We like to use a can of stewed tomatoes flavored with celery, onion and peppers.

Submitted by Bonnie Morton, employee of Berlin Natural Bakery

This is a traditional Amish noodle dish that I am asked to bring to every family reunion.  There are never any leftovers to take home.

1 lb. ground beef

1 can cream of chicken soup

1 can tomato soup

1 cup celery, cut fine, cooked tender

1 lb. Velveeta cheese

1 pkg. Berlin Natural Bakery White Spelt Noodles

Salt to taste

Fry ground beef in skillet.  Cook noodles in boiling water until tender, about 4 minutes. Mix tomato soup with ground beef and chicken soup with noodles.  Put  in layers in casserole dish and cover with cheese.  Bake at 300º for 1 hour.

Submitted by Joy Schrock, President of Berlin Natural Bakery

This is a family recipe that has been passed down through the years and, of course, when my Grandma and Mom made it, nothing was ever actually measured….it was always just “a little bit of this and a little bit of that”!!  I have done my best to give accurate measure to the main ingredients, but for the amount of cheese or seasonings….you just need to go with your own tastes and try “a little bit of this and a little bit of that”.  Enjoy.

1 lb ground beef

½ cup chopped onion

1 quart tomato juice

¼ cup sugar

1 tsp. Worchestershire Sauce

Salt, pepper and garlic salt to taste

1 pkg. Berlin Natural Bakery Spelt Noodles

Sliced or grated cheese (such as mozzarella or Swiss…Gramma Moser used Velveeta)

Cook noodles in boiling water for 4 -5 minutes until tender.  Drain and set aside.  Brown the ground beef with onions (Gramma also used to add chopped celery sometimes to the ground beef and onions).  Add the tomato juice, sugar, worchestershire sauce and seasonings.  Simmer for 30 minutes.  Add the cooked noodles to the tomato sauce.  Place in a 9” x 13” casserole.  Cover top with either grated or sliced cheese.  Bake at 350º for 30 minutes. 

*Note:  Sometimes we would add buttered bread crumbs to the top of the casserole before baking.  To do so, melt ¼ cup (half of a stick) of butter and add 1 cup bread crumbs.  (They can be fresh bread crumbs, they don’t have to be dried).  Sprinkle the buttered bread crumbs over the cheese layer and bake.  It’s delicious!!

Submitted by Cindy Widder, General Manager Berlin Natural Bakery