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Baked Apple Dumpling

A historical recipe from Cook book of tested receipes, by Ida Lee Cary (1920).

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A historical recipe

Cook book of tested receipes, by Ida Lee Cary (1920). Project Gutenberg eBook #68983.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. 1 cup of sugar
  2. a pint of water
  3. 1 apple

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Make a crust as for baking powder biscuit, peel and core your apples, cut the dough in square pieces and put 1 apple for each dumpling.
  2. Put them in a baking dish and place in the oven, then make a syrup with water and sugar, 1 cup of sugar to a pint of water and pour into the pan, baste with syrup while they are cooking, when done eat with sweet cream.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Baking dish
  • Chef's knife
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Pastry brush
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Cook book of tested receipes, by Ida Lee Cary (1920). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #68983 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68983). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.