You haven’t truly lived until you’ve bitten into a perfectly crisp fried pickle while Jimmy Buffett croons overhead and a plastic flamingo watches you from behind a tiki bar in suburban Virginia.

Just 70 miles south of Nashville, this rural community hosts one of Tennessee’s largest Old Order Amish populations, where electricity remains optional and homemade is the only way things get done.

Get your next party started on the right foot—with one of these tried-and-true vintage appetizers that will never go out of ...