Apple Dumplings

Ingredients

• one quart of flour
• one teaspoonful ARM AND HAMMER SODA
• about a half teaspoonful salt
• one tablespoonful lard, or butter, if preferred
• two cups sour milk
• a tart apple pared and cored
• brown sugar
• a pinch of cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour with soda and salt, mix in lard or butter.

2. 2

   Wet with sour milk, roll out to a quarter inch thick, cut into squares large enough to wrap around an apple.

3. 3

   Fill the cavity with brown sugar and cinnamon.

4. 4

   Cook in a steamer for half to three-quarters of an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Arm & Hammer Soda book of valuable recipes (1900) by Church & Dwight Co, page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

APPLE DUMPLINGS. Sift one quart of flour, mixing thoroughly into it one teaspoonful ARM AND HAMMER SODA (or Saleratus) and about a half teaspoonful salt; put in one tablespoonful lard, 'or butter, if preferred. When all are thor¬ oughly mixed, wet up quickly with two cups sour milk. Roil the dough out to about the thickness of a quarter of an inch, then cut into squares S large enough to wrap around a jj tart apple pared and cored. Fill the cavity of the core with brown sugar and a pinch of cinnamon

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