Apple Dumplings

Ingredients

• a quart of flour
• a half teaspoonful of salt
• two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• two cups of sweet milk
• granulated sugar
• a few drops of lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour with salt and baking powder.

2. 2

   Add butter, chopped into flour, and sweet milk.

3. 3

   Roll into a sheet half an inch thick, cut into squares.

4. 4

   Place a peeled apple in the center of each square, fill with sugar and lemon juice.

5. 5

   Fold corners over apple, pinch together, place in a buttered pan upside down.

6. 6

   Bake until brown, brush with beaten egg white, glaze, sift powdered sugar over, and serve hot with hard sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kirmess cook book (1907), page 157. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

APPLE DUMPLINGS. Mrs. E, H. Broun, Springfield, L. I. Sift a quart of flour with a half teaspoonful of salt and two teas{K>onfuls of baking powder. Add two table- spoonfuls of butter, chopped into the prepared flour, and two cups of sweet milk. Put upon a floured pastry- board and roll into a sheet a half an inch thick. Cut this sheet into pi'^oes about five or six inches square. In the centre of eaeh of these squares place a peeled and Corel apple, filling the hollow centre of each apple with granulated sugar, then squeezing on the sugar a few drops of lemon juice. Fold the four comers of the square over the apple, pinching them firmly together on top. Set these dumplings in a buttered pan, having the joined corners underneath, that is, turning the dumplings upside down. Bake to a good brown in a DESSERTS. 369 steady, but not very hot, oven. When light brown, brush with the beaten white of an egg, then set back into the oven just long enough to glaze the dumplings well. Take from the oven, sift powdered sugar over them, and serve hot, with a hard sauce. PEACH DUMPLINGS. Miss Hellerman. Use large peaches. Cut in half and take out pit, re- placing with blanched almonds.. Boil some rice thick. Spread on cheese-cloth large enough to cover entire peaches and tie ends firmly. Place in steamer and steam two hours. Serve with wine sauce. A DELICIOUS PUDDING WITH APPLES. Mrs. 0. A. Oauld, New Tork. Beat four eggs to a stiff froth, add half a cupful of sugar, a teaspoonful of salt and stir these ingredients well into the eggs ; then pour in a pint of milk, and when these ingredients are well beaten together add four cup- fuls of sifted flour and three teaspoonfuls of baking pow- der

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