Apple Dumplings - a repost

[prosodic]

For wendywoowho, because I promised her this recipe weeks ago. It's an old family favorite. I posted this a few years back, but I can't find it.

(My mom recommends Macintosh apples...I prefer Granny Smith)

1 cup sugar
1 stick butter - cut into small pieces
2 cups hot water (hot enough to melt the butter)

Put all these ingredients in a bowl and set aside

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

1-3/4 cups flour
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
3/4 cup shortening
2/3 cup milk
6 medium apples - peeled, cored, cut into bite-size pieces

Mix flour, sugar, salt, powder & soda. Cut in shortening. Stir in milk and mix well (add more flour if needed). Separate dough into 4 pieces. On floured surface, roll each dough ball into a thin circle, place handful of apple pieces into center of dough and fold up edges to enclose apples. Place each dumpling into square baking dish. Stir sugar, water and butter mixture until dissolved and ladle onto dumplings to fill baking dish to within half an inch of the top. Bake 50-60 minutes.

I would love to take one fresh from the oven, pour milk over it, sprinkle sugar over it liberally, and eat. So amazing. I suppose ice cream works with it too, but I always had it with milk, so it seems sacrilegious to eat it any other way. Leftovers are always reheated for breakfast the next morning. :)

Comments

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

That's because you posted it here: http://community.livejournal.com/bunnyummy/19900.html

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

A HA! Thanks! I could've sworn I posted it in my own journal.

[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!