Kansas

• Bierock

  An enriched yeast bun sealed around beef, cabbage and onion and baked shut, from the Volga German villages of Ellis and Rush counties.

  Total

  2 hr 45 min

  Serves

  12

  Calories

  380 per bierock

• Chili with a Cinnamon Roll

  A thick beef-and-bean chili with a soft iced cinnamon roll on the same plate — the Kansas school-lunch pairing, built the way the federal meal pattern built it.

  Total

  3 hr

  Serves

  8

  Calories

  750 per serving

• Verenike with Ham Gravy

  Dry-curd cheese dumplings boiled and then browned in butter, under a cream gravy built on ham fat — the Low German Mennonite Sunday dish of Harvey, Marion and McPherson counties.

  Total

  1 hr 15 min

  Serves

  6

  Calories

  610 per serving

• Zwieback

  A rich little roll with a second ball of dough thumbed into its back, from the Mennonite settlements of central Kansas that brought hard winter wheat with them.

  Total

  2 hr 30 min

  Serves

  16

  Calories

  175 per roll

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