Dried Apple Pies

Ingredients

• Soak the apples
• cover them with water
• bake 4 or 5 hours
• sweeten with sugar or molasses
• add a little butter

Method

1. 1

   Soak the apples; put them in a brown earthen pot; cover them with water; cover the pot and bake for 4 or 5 hours.

2. 2

   Sweeten with sugar or molasses the last half hour and mash well with a spoon.

3. 3

   When the apples are thoroughly cooked, flavor with lemon juice and add a little butter.

4. 4

   The pie can be baked between 2 crusts, or bands of the paste can be placed over the top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from 365 desserts (1900) by Harriet Schuyler Nelson, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Dried Apple Pies. Soak the apples; put them in a brown earthen pot ; cover them with water ; cover the pot and bake 4 or 5 hours ; sweeten with sugar or molasses the last half hour and mash well with a spoon ; when the apples are thor- 29 February. oughly cooked flavor with lemon juice and add a little butter

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