Apple Dumplings

Ingredients

• Three large potatoes, boiled and mashed while hot
• two cupfuls of sifted flour
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one small cupful of butter
• eight or ten good-sized ones being enough for this amount of crust

Method

1. 1

   Make a crust by mixing mashed potatoes, flour, salt, and butter into a paste with cold water.

2. 2

   Roll out the crust, fill with pared and quartered apples, and boil for three hours.

3. 3

   Serve with butter and syrup or made sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 136. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Apple Dumplings. — Make a crust, as for biscuit, or a po- tato-crust, as follows: Three large potatoes, boiled and mashed while hot. Add to them two cupfuls of sifted flour and one teaspoonful of salt, and mix thoroughly. Now chop or cut into it one small cupful of butter, and mix into a paste with about a teacupful of cold water. Dredge the board thick with flour, and roll out, thick in the middle, and thin at the edges. Fill, as directed, with apples pared and quartered, eight or ten good- sized ones being enough for this amount of crus

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