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Amish Potato Filling

I GREW UP thinking stuffing was a combination of mashed potatoes and bread. Yes—double the starch. Perhaps not surprisingly for such a thrifty, clever dish, that version has Pennsylvania Dutch and Amish roots.

I was able to collect a handful of recipes for this dish, which is fittingly called Amish potato filling (not stuffing). When we sampled the full range of recipes I’d found, one

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