Apple Appeal Any
Way You Slice It
Applesauce, apple juice, apple
slices, pie filling, apple butter and
apple jelly. .These foods show the
adaptive apple at its best.
If you like to sauce up ginger
bread with hot spiced applesauce,
try the following:
•Add raisins to gingerbread and
top with hot spiced applesauce.
•Season applesauce with hot
mustard, cider, vinegar and brown
sugar for a tangy ham glaze.
•Broil link sausages, roll into
thin pancakes and serve with
spoonfuls of hot applesauce.
•Combine applesauce, ground
beef and seasonings for a delicious
new meat loaf.
•Top French toast or waffles
with grated orange rind and
chopped walnuts with hot
applesauce.
•Spoon chilled applesauce over
toasted slices of pound cake.
•Mix one part applesauce and
one part cranberry sauce for relish
to serve with poultry or pork.
Pennsylvania’s finest apple pie
bakers prepared their secret apple
pie recipes, for the apple pie con
test held during farm show week.
BLUE RIBBON APPLE PIE
Crust:
I'A cups flour
'A cup lard
2'A tablespoons water
Dash salt
Filling:
6 cups Mclntosh apples, peeled
and sliced
V 1 cup sugar
'A cup brown sugar
'A cup flour
’A teaspoon cinnamon
I'/i tablespoons butter
Bake at 425 degrees for 10
minutes. Reduce heat; continue to
bake at 350 degrees for SO
minutes.
Mary Massinger
Harleton
APPLE CRUMBLE
Butter oblong shallow baking
dish
Slice 6 to 8 apples in dish. Cov
er with crumbs made with the fol
lowing ingredients:
1 cup flour
'A to 1 cup sugar
Mix with foik and spread. Dot
with butter and sprinkle with cin
namon. Bake A hour at 350
degrees. Serve warm or cold with
whipped cream or ice cream.
Betty Biehl
Mertztown
Recipe Topics
If you have recipes for the topics listed below, please
share them with us. We welcome your recipes, but ask
that you include accurate measurements, a complete
list of Ingredients and clear instructions with each
recipe you submit. Send your recipes to Lou Ann Good,
Lancaster Farming, P.O. Box 609, Ephrata. PA 17522.
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APPLE
CHEESE-FILLED ROLLS
2 cups biscuit baking mix
1 cup dairy sour cream
1 8-ounce package creanr
cheese, softened
'A cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon grated orange peel
1 to VA cups thinly sliced pared
apples
'A cup confectioners’ sugar
1 to 2 teaspoons orange juice
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Mix
baking mix and sour cream until
soft dough forms. Turn dough onto
cloth-covered board generously
dusted with baking mix. Gently
roll in baking mix to coat; knead
until smooth, about 20 times.
Divide dough into halves. Roll
each half into 9-inch square with
cloth-covered rolling pin dusted
with baking mix. Cut into nine
3-inch sqares. Place on ungreased
cookie sheets. Mix cream cheese,
granulated sugar and orange peel.
Place two apple slices on center of
each square; top with 1 tablespoon
cream cheese mixture. Bring 2
opposite comers of dough to center
of each pan, overlapping slightly;
pinch well. Bake until crust is gol
den brown, 12 to IS minutes.
Remove from cookie sheet; cool
slightly. Mix powdered sugar and
orange juice; drizzle over rolls.
Makes VA dozen.
Apple Institute
BAVARIAN APPLE PIE
Crust:
'A cup soft butter
'A cup granulated sugar
'A teaspoon vanilla
Beat ingredients well with mix
er. Add 1 cup flour and blend mix
ture to form a soft dough. Push
dough into the bottom and up the
sides of a 9-inch pie pan.
Filling:
1 8-ounce package cream
cheese
'A cup sugar
1 egg
'A teaspoon vanilla
Beat until smooth and pour over
the crust spreading evenly.
Combine:
4 cups thinly sliced apples
'A teaspoon cinnamon
'A cup granulated sugar
Layer apple/sugar mixture over
cream cheese mixture. Dot with 1
tablespoon butter. Sprinkle with
'A cup English walnuts. Bake at
400 degrees for IS minutes.
Reduce heat to 350 degrees for 30
minutes or until apples are done.
Minnie Schlegel
Fleetwood
desserts.
JUDY’S APPLE PIE
Crust;
l'/i cups flour
'A cup shortening
'A teaspoon salt
. Mix until mixture is crumb-like
and add V* cup water.
Filling:
8* to 10 medium Red Delicious
apples, peeled and sliced
Cinnamon to taste
'A cup granulated sugar
V* cup apple juice
Cook mixture until apples are
soft Add 'A tablespoon instant
tapioca and 'A tablespoon clear-gel
mix with % cup additional apple
juice. Add a dash vanilla to the
apple mixture and allow entire
mixture to cool, then put filling
into crust.
Bake at 425 degrees for 15
minutes. Reduce heat to 375
degrees and bake until golden,
approximately 30 minutes.
Judy Crawford
Cbambersburg
CRANBERRY APPLE
CRUNCH
1 cup sugar
2 cups chopped tan apples
1 cup water
2 cups cranberries
Topping:
1 cup rolled oats
V> cup flour
'A cup brown sugar
V* cup butter
'A teaspoon salt
A cup nuts, optional
Mix sugar and water; boil 5
minutes. Add berries, cook until
skins pop (about 5 minutes)
Remove from heat, add apples
Pour into buttered
10x6x1 VA -inch deep baking pan
Sprinkle with mixed topping
ingredients. Serve with whippec
topping.
Mildred Millet
Brownstowr
and serve one of these taste-tempting
BAKED CIDER
APPLESAUCE
5 pounds apples
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup apple cider
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Vi teaspoon nutmeg
Pare and core apples; slice in
eighths. Place in large baking dish.
Featured Recipe
Many of our readers show their creativity by experimenting with
recipes. Wanda and J. Loren Yoder from Belleville are a husband and
wife team that work together in the dairy bam and in the kitchen.
Several months ago, the recipe for “Golden Crispies Cereal”
appeared in this section. Innovative cook that he is, Loren made it, then
threw several handfuls of the cereal in the bread dough that his wife
was kneading.
Presto! The bread turned out with a fabulous flavor that family and
guests raved about
Almost every week, the Yoders make both the bread and the cereal.
Try it You may start a bread-baking tradition in your kitchen.
Also, on page 82. read about the Yoder’s triumph over the cancer
ous brain tumor that threatened their son’s life.
WANDA’S AND LOREN’S &READ
1 tablespoon yeast dissolved in
3 cups warm water
'A cup sugar
1 tablespoon lard
-1 tablespoon salt
9 cups white flour
Mix ingredients. Knead until elastic. Set aside to rise in a warm
place. Punch down and let rise again. Divide into 4 loaves. Knead 1
cup of Golden Crispies Cereal into each section. Shape Into loaves and
let rise again. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes or untiUightly
brown.
GOLDEN CRISPIES CEREAL
4 cups rolled oats
2 cups wheat germ
2 cups oat bran
1 cup sunflower seeds
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup flaked coconut
l A cup brown sugar, firmly .packed
V* cup oil
'A cup water
2 tablespoons vanilla
Combine all ingredients and mix well. Spread in 15VS xlO'A xl-inch
jelly roll pan. Bake in 350 degree Aven for 30 to 35 minutes or until
browned. While baking, stir frequently to prevent burning. Add 1 to 2
cups raisins after baking. Cool and store in tightly covered container.
Heat sugar and cider, stirring until
sugar dissolves. Remove from
heat; add lemon juice and nutmeg;
pour over apples. Cover; bake at
350 degrees for 45 minutes, or
until apples are soft Break up with
a fork to desired consistency.
Makes 3 pints.
(Turn to Pag* B 8)