Brother Johannes is a member of the Christiansbrunn Brotherhood, a religious community in the Mahantongo Valley. The brotherhood maintains a mystic lifestyle patterned after eighteenth-century Pennsylvania Moravians. Just as one tool served many functions in the spartan living conditions of two hundred years ago, so too does this recipe fulfill many demands. Brother Johannes’s recipe not only makes delicious Fastnachts, but the same dough can be used to mak
