Apple Slump

Ingredients

• One quart of sifted flour
• two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar
• one teaspoonful of soda
• two quarts of quartered apples
• one cupful of sugar
• half a cupful of molasses
• two cupfuls of water
• a pinch of salt
• a seasoning of nutmeg or cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour, cream of tartar, and soda together twice.

2. 2

   Mix into a soft dough with milk or water (add lard if using water).

3. 3

   Prepare apples with sugar, molasses, water, and seasoning in an iron kettle.

4. 4

   Once boiling, place dumplings on top and boil briskly for 20 minutes, adding more water if necessary.

5. 5

   Serve with cream.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 7 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 342. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Apple Slump PUDDINGS, ETC. Blackberry Pudding over the top ; put it in the hottest part of the oven to brown a minute or two. Either eat cold with cream or hot with sauce. Another way : — Take ten eggs ; leave out half of the whites; a pint of apples stewed and passed through a sieve, Yz lb. of butter, the rind of two lemons, and the juice of one. Sweeten it as you please and bake in pastry. for a few hours ; pour off the water ; put the barley in a buttered stewpan ; pour over it two pints of milk, and let it simmer gently for two or three hours, adding sugar to taste, and a few drops of any flavoring essence ; pour it into a buttered pie-dish ; strew a little ground nutmeg over, and bake for half an 4iour. Eggs and butter may be added to enrich. Apple Slump. — One quart of sifted flour, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of soda. Sift these articles together ; the sifting is an important part of the preparation, and should be done twice. Mix into a dough with milk or water; milk is preferred. If water is used, add one teaspoonful of lard. Make into a quite soft dough, with a spoon in- stead of the hands. Take two quarts of quartered apples. Now prepare one cupful of sugar and half a cupful of molasses with two cupfuls of water, and a seasoning of nutmeg or cinna- mon, and a pinch of salt

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