More apples

How about some more apple ideas for those of us regretting how many we schlepped home from the orchard. It's like planting ten zucchini plants...what was I thinking?

This time from the Antioch Cook Book, no date, but I'm guessing 1920s. It appears to me to be a community church project. I love how very succinct the recipes are; most of merely a list of ingredients. Clearly the woman reading is supposed to have ample knowledge of what to do with them.

Here's an apple recipe written in pencil on the back flyleaf, it comes with a few more instructions:

Spiced Apple Salad
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 cup cinnamon drops
1 cup cottage cheese
1/4 cup chopped walnuts (get your Menu Magic every day)
mayonnaise

Heat sugar, water, and cinnamon drops slowly until candy is dissolved. Put peeled and cored apple in syrup and cook until tender. remove and chill. Fill centers with cheese and nuts mixed with mayonnaise. Serve on lettuce.

Mrs. Pearl McDonald supplies a recipe for Apple Dumplings:

1 c flour
2 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
3 T shortening
1/2 c milk
4 apples
4 T sugar
2 t butter

Sift flour, baking powder, salt, add shortening, and just enough milk to make a dough. Divide into four parts, roll, place one apple in each part after paring and slicing, add 1 t sugar, 1/4 t butter in each apple, fold dough around apple. Place in pan, sprinkle remainder of sugar and butter on each dumpling, also remainder of milk. Bake 20 minutes in hot oven in a covered pan. Serve with hard sauce or rich cream.

I've seen other dumpling recipes in which you mix up the ingredients for the sauce and pour it in the pan, then the apples and sauce bake together so I was surprised to see this dry version. I think I'd like it better, I always imagined the bottom half would be squishy otherwise.


Mrs Clarence Tompkins is no-nonsense with her recipe for Apple Salad:

3 c apples, 1 c white grapes, 1 c nuts, 1 c marshmallows, 2 c celery, mayonnaise dressing.

That's it, just the list.

People ate a helluva lot of mayonnaise in the past.