APPLE DISHES

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 55, Issue 32672, 4 February 1946, Page 2

APPLE DISHES

HIGH NUTRITIVE VALUE POPULAR WITH THE FAMILY Among fruits apples rank high in the nutrition scale and anything in the way of apple-pie and stewed apple is popular. There are scores of ways of cooking the fruit and the following recipes will suggest others. Apple Teacake.—Cream 11 tablespoons butter, and 1 cup. cugar together, add 1 egg i( beaten) and beat again. Add S cup milk and Is cups flour and 1 teaspoon baking powder sifted together. Pour into small greased l baking dish (about 9in. square). Slice 2 apples into rings and put on top of cake mixture, edges touching. Mix together 2 teaspoons sugar and' 1 scant teaspoon cinnamon, sprinkle over apple and bake i hour in moderate oven. Apple marmalade. —Slice 61b. apples, cover with 21b. sugar and' stand overnight. Cut up 4 lemons thinly, removing seed's and pithy centres, cover with 2 quarts of water and also stand overnight. Next day, after boiling both together for 1 hour, add 41b. sugar (61b. in all)' and boil 1 hour longer or till it sets when tried. Apple and Raisin Roly-IPoly.—Make a dough of scone mixture, roll out very thin and butter. Core and peel apples, chop finely, mix with raisins, sweeten with sugar and flavour with cinnamon. Spread heavily over dOugh, roll and close tightly. : Steam 1 hour, slice and serve with lemon sauce. Apple Crust.—Fill a pie-dish with cut apples, a few cloves and sugar. Rub together 1 cup flour, ’3. dessertspoons, butter (or dripping), J cup sugar, a pinch of salt and 1 teaspoon baking powder; press it over the raw fruit and' bake 1 hour in a moderate oven. Apple Roll.—Roll out a scone dough made of 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 2 dessertspoons butter (or dripping) mixed' with milk. Spread on it chopped apples sprinkled with sugar, cloves and 2 tablespoons golden syrup. Roll up, put in a pie-dish, pour over top 1 cup hot water with a tablespoon of butter and sugar dissolved in it, and bake 1 hour in a fairly hot oven. Apple and Date (or Raisin)' pie.— Line a pie-dish with pastry made with milk, flour and dripping or butter as preferred. Fill with cut apples, dates and/or raisins (not much sugar is needed), cover with pastry and bake 1 hour. Apple Dainties. —iVYash and core 6 small cooking apples and fill cavity with sultanas, lem'on .peel or any other dried fruit. Put apples in baking tin and bake till soft andjuot broken. Lift carefully on to dish, surround with thin custard and serve at once.