Dutch Apple Cake

Ingredients

• One pint flour
• half teaspoon salt
• two teaspoons baking powder
• one-fourth cup butter
• one egg
• one scant cup milk
• four sour apples
• two tablespoons sugar

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, salt, and baking powder; rub in butter, beat egg and add milk, then stir into dry mixture.

2. 2

   Spread into a pan, pare and cut apples into eights, lay in rows, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, and bits of butter; bake for twenty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pennsylvania German cook book (1902) by Keller, J. A. Mrs, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two teaspoons baking powder, flavor to taste. Steam two hours; serve with sauce made of one tablespoon butter, one tablespoon flour creamed, pour on boiling water, flavor and sweeten. Mrs. G. Holbein. WHITE PUDDING. One pint suet rubbed fine, taking out all stringy substance, two or more quarts of flour, pepper well, add salt and mix all thoroughly. Put into a pan and moisten with water. Stir frequently while baking, and keep moistening by adding a little more water. This can also be steamed, putting it into a cloth bag, and is to be eaten while hot. BIRD’S NEST PUDDING. Fill a baking dish partly with sliced tart apples. Make a batter with tw’o cups flour, a heaping teaspoon baking powder, a tablespoon lard or butter, one egg, mix with milk to a rather stiff bat¬ ter, pour over apples and bake. When done put on a platter upside down, sprinkle with sugar, eat with cream or sauce. S. K. BROWN BETTY. Fill a dish with apples and bread crumbs or pieces of buttered bread alter¬ nately, each time season apples with sugar, nutmeg and add small pieces of butter. Add enough water to cook all, sprinkle flour on top and bake. S. K. APPLE DUMPLINGS. Halve the apples, make a dough like soda biscuit, roll, cut in njuares, wrap the half of apple into a stpiare of dough, join the edges well. Put into greased pan and bake, or steam. Eat with sugar and cream. S. K. 21 THK rKXNSVIiVANI A (;ERMAN ('OOK HOOK. DUTCH APPLE CAKE. One pint tlonr, half, leasiHxni salt, two teas|MM»ns baking |M>w(ler, one-fourtli cnp blitter, one egg, one scant cup milk, four sour apples, two tablespiMins suga

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