Apple Dumplings

Ingredients

• Five apples
• twelve ounces of flour
• four ounces of butter
• one ounce of sugar
• one teaspoonful of baking powder
• one and one-half gills of cold water
• one saltspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Rub flour and butter, add baking powder and salt, mix with cold water to form dough.

2. 2

   Cut into five pieces.

3. 3

   Pare apples, core them, place sugar in the core.

4. 4

   Wrap dough around apples, place in a baking tin, bake in a quick oven for half an hour.

5. 5

   Test with a skewer for doneness.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of cooking (1880) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 70. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Apple Dumplings. — Five apples, twelve ounces of fiour, four ounces of butter, one ounce of sugar, one tea- spoonful of baking powder, one and one-half gills of cold water, one saltspoonful of salt

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