Baked Apple Dumplings

Ingredients

• the same number of large tart apples
• three cupfuls of flour
• one cupful of butter
• the juice of one lemon
• two table-spoonfuls of sugar
• about half a cupful of cold water
• a level teaspoonful of salt
• a piece of soda about the size of a pea

Method

1. 1

   Chop flour, salt, sugar, and butter until the butter is in bits.

2. 2

   Dissolve soda in water, add lemon juice, and mix with the dry ingredients.

3. 3

   Roll out the paste, pare and core the apples, and place each apple in a piece of paste.

4. 4

   Bake in a buttered pan for forty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 325. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Apple Dumplings. For eight dumplings use the same number of large tart apples, three cupfuls of flour, one cupful of butter, the juice of one lemon, two table-spoonfuls of sugar, about half a cupful of cold water, a level teaspoonful of salt, and a piece of soda about the size of a pea

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