Dutch Apple Cake

Ingredients

• Additional ingredient: J tsp, cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Mix like Emergency biscuits, reserving 2 tb. of the sugar and mixing remainder with dry ingredients.

2. 2

   Add the beaten egg last.

3. 3

   Spread the dough in a shallow, buttered baking-pan or in gem-pans, and press the sliced fruit into it in rows.

4. 4

   Sprinkle with the cinnamon mixed with remaining sugar, and bake in a moderate oven for 25 to 30 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The practical cookbook (1917) by Margaret W. Howard, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Dutch apple cake 2C. 4 tsp. itsp. ic. 4tb. I c. — .+ c. Nut bread . . . i c. .Itsp. rtsp. ic. — }c. — 1 — Quick graham bread .... ic. — itsp. — — lie. zc. — General Directions. Sift all the dry ingredients, chop in the butter with a case knife, and then stir in the milk, adding it cautiously, since some flours absorb less than others. The butter may be melted and added last if preferred. d,:...l,CjOO^:;Ic STARCH 45 Emergeacy biscnits. Drop by the spoonful into buttered gem- pans and bake 1 5 to 20 min. in a moderate oven. Use more milk if batter is very thick. ^ c. scalded, dried, and sliced dates may be added. Baking-powder biscuits. Use only enough milk to make a dough that can be easily handled. Turn quickly onto a well- floured board, roll dough back and forth in the flour until well covered, then pat lightly with a rolling-pin, making the dough about I in. thick. With a floured cutter, cut as many biscuits as possible and place in a buttered pan. Put trimmings back into bowl, mix with knife, and repeat rolling and cutting. Bake 1 5 to 20 min. in a hot oven. Whole-wheat biscuits or Graham biscuits. Use i c. white flour, I c. dark flour, and 2 tb. sugar, and make like Baking- powder biscuits. Shortcake. Prepare as for Baking-powder biscuits (above). When dough is well floured divide in two parts. Shape one piece to fill a round, shallow pan, and brush over with melted butter. Shape the second piece of dough and place it on the first. Bake 20 to 30 min. When slightly cool, split, butter, and fill with stewed or fresh fruit, sweetened. Whipped cream may be put on top just before serving. The dough is some- times shaped as for biscuits, but rolled a little thinner, and two biscuits put together to make individual shortcakes. Fruit rolls. Additional ingredient : \ tsp. cinnamon. Make like Shortcake (above), using no sugar in mixing and only half the butter. Mix sugar, spice, and currants or raisins. Roll out the dough, keeping it as nearly square as possible. Spread with remainder of butter, sprinkle with the sugar mixture, roll up, cut in slices, place them cut-side down on a buttered pan, and bake 15 min, in a moderate oven. Dutch apple cake. Additional ingredient: J tsp, cinnamon

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