Soup and Noodle Cookery

Enter the impish Bucklich Mennli, “Little Humped-Back Man,” the eternal bane of the Pennsylvania Dutch kitchen, the designing elf who inhabits each and every Pennsylvania Dutch household. He is responsible for such mishaps as scorched toast, overturned wastepaper baskets, dumplings that fall apart, dripping faucets, chipped canning jars, and a host of other irritations, including his favorite: throwing ashes into soup.