The farm cook & rule book

Add 1 drop of lemon juice to the cavity in every apple. Fill the cavity with chopped nuts, raisins and brown sugar instead of granulated sugar. Fill the center with small red cinnamon candy instead of sugar and serve with cream. Use chopped marshmallows in the cavities, adding it just before the apples are tender and after the sugar has melted. Before removing the fruit from the oven, place a marshmallow on top of every apple and have the oven slow enough to brown it without burning. Raisins and sugar may be used in the centers. A fruit syrup may be used. To make it, boil 1 cupful of sugar, 2 cupfuls of water, the juice and rind of V2 lemon and 1 tablespoonful of butter together. Add 4 tablespoonfuls of chopped raisins to the syrup after it has boiled 5 minutes and let simmer until the syrup is thick. Pour this over the apples and bake. When cold, serve with whipped cream. Boiled Apples 6 apples 1 cupful water % cupful sugar 1 lemon Put the sugar, water and the juice and rind of the lemon in a saucepan. Boil until the syrup thickens. Then add the pared and quartered apples and simmer until they are clear and transparent. Lift them from the syrup carefully and place in a large dish. Top with whipped cream. Apple Sauce 8 large apples % cupful sugar % cupful water Wash, pare and core the apples. Place them in a crock with water and sugar. Cover and bake until a pretty red in a slow oven. Mammy's Baked Apples 6 large apples 6 thin slices lemon 1 cupful sugar % cupful water 1 tablespoonful cinnamon 3 tablespoonfuls butter Pare, core and quarter the ripe apples. Place in a buttered baking dish, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, add the lemon slices and butter and pour on the water. Cook on the stove long enough to form a heavy syrup. This usually requires 15 minutes. Place the cover on the dish and bake in a hot oven about 30 minutes. Serve with lemon or vanilla pudding sauce. Apples En Casserole 4 cupfuls sliced apples % cupful water 2 cupfuls bread crumbs 1^ cupfuls brown sugar % cupful butter 1% teaspoonfuls cinnamon Melt the butter and stir the bread crumbs into it. Arrange a layer of this in the bottom of a greased baking dish or casserole. Add a thick layer of apples, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, cover with a thin layer of the crumb mixture and continue this process until the material is used up, having the top layer of crumbs. Add the water and bake 35 minutes. FKUITS 127 Stewed Prunes % pound prunes 1 cupful granulated sugar 4 cupfuls cold water 2 whole cloves Wash the prunes and let soak overnight in the 4 cupfuls of water. In the morning cook gently in the same water in which they were soaked, adding the sugar and cloves just before the prunes are tender. Chill before serving. Orange Flavored Prunes % pound prunes 4 tablespoonfuls sugar 1 orange 2 cupfuls water After washing and soaking the prunes, simmer until they begin to get tender. Add the yellow peel of the orange cut in long, narrow strips. Add the sugar and cook 10 minutes. Remove the fruit from the stove and add the orange juice. Serve very cold. Baked Rhubarb 2 cupfuls rhubarb 1% cupfuls sugar