Conference turris::cooks

                         APPLE (OR PEACH OR PLUM) PANCAKE
    
    Melt 2 tbs. of butter in cast iron skillet.
    Heat oven to about 400.
    
    Mix:  1/2 C flour, 1/2 C milk, 2 eggs, a little salt.
    
    pour into skillet and then add a single layer of apple slices. 
    Sprinkle with a little sugar and spices of choice.  Bake for about
    10-20 mintes until puffy and golden.  Slice like a pizza.  (I'm
    a little unsure about the timing - and my oven is so fast I have
    to really watch things anyway.)
    
    Sally
    

    SWEET APPLE QUICK BREAD
    
    	2.C. All Purpose Flour
    	1 C  Sugar
      1 Tsp. Baking Soda
    1/2 Tsp. Baking Powder
    1/2 Tsp. Salt
    	1 C. (2 Medium) Peeled, finely chopped apples
      1/2 C. Butter or Margarine (soft)
      1/2 C. Milk
      2 Tbs. Grated Orange Peel
      1 Tbs. Corn syrup
          2  Eggs
      1/2 C. Chopped Nuts
    
    Preheat oven to 350.  Grease bottom of 9x5 or 8x4 loaf pan.
    In large bowl, blend all ingredients except nuts.  Beat 
    3 min. at med speed.  Stir in nuts.  Pour into prepared pan.
    Bake 50 to 60 min, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
    Remove from pan to cool.  makes one loaf
    
    
    
     
    	

    Here's one of my favorite apple recipes.  I got it from my
    mother-in-law.
    
    
    
    APPLE CAKE
    
    Preheat oven 350.  grease 8 or 9 inch pie plate.
    
    Mix in order given:
    2 tablespoons shortening
    1 cup sugar
    1 egg
    1 teaspoon vanilla
    3 cups peeled diced apples
    
    sift together:
    1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
    1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    1 teaspoon baking soda
    1 cup flour
    
    Mix together with apple mixture and put in pie plate.  Bake for
    40 minutes.  When cooked,sprinkle with powdered sugar.  Serve hot
    or cold.
    
    For variety add 1/2 cup raisins or 1/2 cup walnuts or both before
    baking.
    
    
    Enjoy!
    
    Manina

My mother always baked an applesauce type of thing on cold days:

heat oven to 350 degrees
pare, core, and chop approx. 6 cups apples
mix apples, 3 - 4 tablespoons lemon juice, 1 to 2 cups dark brown sugar,
3 to 6 teaspoons cinnamon, 2 - 3 teaspoon allspice

     The sugar and spices are primarily to to your taste and the
     sweetness of your apples.

put into a buttered cassarole or pan, dot liberally with butter,
cover and bake for 2 hours, remove cover and bake for approx.
another hour until thick and the house smells heavenly....

This is perfect over pancakes, waffles, ice cream,.....you name it. 


     	Oh how I miss the apples I used to get in Mass. !!!!

    This is from either the Globe or the Herald.
    
    4 apples
    2-1/2 C. grated cheddar cheese
    3 T mayo
    1 T dijon mustard
    1 tsp. nutmeg
    16 slices bread
    butter or margarine
    
    Peel, core, and finely chop the apples.
    In a bowl, combine the apples, cheese, mayo, mustard, and nutmeg.
    Mix well.
    Generously butter one side of each bread slice.  Heap apple mixture
      on the unbuttered side of half of the bread.  Top each with a
      slice of bread, buttered side up.
    Grill over medium-low heat until filling is melted and the bread
      is golden.
    
    nancy
    

    APPLE CAKE
    
    (10 to 12 servings)
    
    2 cups sugar
    3/4 cup vegetable oil
    2 eggs
    1 tsp vanilla
    1/2 cup chopped walnuts
    2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
    2 tsp cinnamon
    1 tsp baking soda
    1 tsp salt (which I never add)
    4 to 5 medium-size tart apples, peeled, cored, diced (about 4 cups)
    
    Preheat oven to 350F.  Grease 12-cup bundt pan and dust with flour.
    Combine sugar. oil, eggs and vanilla in large bowl of electric mixer
    and blend well.  Stir in walnuts.  Sift flour, cinnamon, baking
    soda and salt into large mixing bowl.  Add to sugar mixer and blend
    thoroughly (this part gets very thick and heavy and a little hard
    on the arms).  Stir in diced apple.  Transfer batter to prepared
    pan.  Bake until tester comes out clean, 1 hour.  Let cake cool
    10 minutes in pan on wire rack.  Turn out onto rack.
    
    This cake is very moist and heavy so make sure the pan is well greased
    (I've ended up with a large hunk of cake sticking to the pan on
    one or two occasions).  It's wonderful hot with vanilla ice cream.
    If I'm making it for other people sometimes I make a kahlua glaze
    for it or I sprinkle it with powdered sugar.  If you want to sprinkle
    on the powdered sugar, do it right before serving.  It's so moist
    it tends to absorb the sugar if it's not eaten right away.  I do
    all the apple dicing and walnut chopping with the food processor
    but I always stir the flour mixture into the sugar mixture by hand
    (probably related to the belief that I use up as many calories mixing
    it as I gain by eating it - I know, but we all have our private
    fantasies).
    
    :^)
      Christine
    

    
    Help!!
    
    My MacIntosh apple tree is overflowing and I need more cake recipies!
    I'm getting a little tired of apple pies ;-)
    
    The ones I have so far (from this conference) are:
    
    Apple Cake  			Apple Squares
    Apple Crisp                         Jewish Apple Cake
    
    If anyone can add any more, it would be appreciated.
    
    -- Colleen
    

    
    	Note 103 has a recipe for an Apple-sour cream pie and an Apple
    cottage cheese pie.

    
    APPLE RAISIN BARS
    -----------------
    
    Crust:
    
    1 1/2 cups old fashioned or quick oats, uncooked
    3/4 cup flour
    1/2 cup packed brown sugar
    1/4 cup granulated sugar
    3/4 cup margarine or butter
    
    Topping:
    
    2 8-oz. pkgs. cream cheese, softened
    2 eggs
    1 cup chopped apple
    1/3 cup raisins
    1 TBS granulated sugar
    1/2 tsp. cinnamon
            
    
    Combine oats, flour and sugars; cut in margarine until mixture
    resembles coarse crumbs.  Reserve 1 cup oat mixture; press remaining
    mixture onto bottom of greased 13 x 9" baking pan.  Bake at 350
    degrees for 15 minutes.
    
    Combine cream cheese and eggs, mixing until well blended.  Pour
    over crust.  Top with remaining ingredients; sprinkle with reserved
    oat mixture.  Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.  Cool; cut into
    bars.
    
    

    This probably isn't the place to enter this, but I had no idea where to
    ask.  I figured where it was an apple topic it would be alright.
    
    Does anyone know where I can get Baldwin apples?  I live in Clinton and
    work in Acton, so anywhere in the vicinity would be fine.  My
    grandmother always used Baldwin apples for her apple pies and they were
    simply scrumptious.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    
    Thanking you in advance.
    
    Fran

    Drew Farms in Westford.

    If you're going west on route 111 there's a farm stand about a mile
    after you go over route 495.  I believe it's in Boxboro on the way to
    Harvard.  They have lots of different apples.  Wouldn't surprise me if
    they had Baldwins.  

    Try Bolton Orchards, on Rte 110 and 117.
    

    I'd like a recipe for apple/fig/lemon/whatever squares, the kind you
    can get at a bakery.  They have flakey crusts for both the top
    and the bottom; the top is a golden brown.  There's filling in
    between, I would guess about 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick.  The whole
    square is about 3/4 to 1 inch thick and they usually cut them
    around 4" x 3".  The only fruit square recipes I've seen have
    either crumb or shortbread/cookie type crusts.  The crust might
    be a type of pie crust, but it isn't like my usual one.  I don't
    think it's phyllo, either...but maybe someone knows for sure?
    
    --Louise

Louise,

The ones I'm familiar with are made with the sheets of phylo dough...strudel
sheets is what they are called.  You can generally buy them in the freezer
section of the market.  If not made using the phylo sheets, then they must
be made from puff pastry.  If so, then you can get the puff pastry, frozen
in sheets, under the Pepperidge Farm label.  I've made this stuff from
scratch, and believe me, you don't want to bother -- especially since it
is great from the box.  Just follow the directions on the box for defrosting
and handling the dough.  cut to size, add your filling, and bake.  Simply
delicious results are guarenteed.

    re .14
    
    The farmstand referred to is Westward Orchards, and it's in Harvard,
    not Boxboro.

    This recipe is from my sister, Carol, who brings it to family
    gatherings.  We tell ourselves it's a healthy dessert.  :')
    
                    Cheezie Dapper Apple Squares
    
    1 1/2 cups flour
    1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
    1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
    1/2 teaspoon baking soda
    3/4 cup melted margarine
    
    6 slices cheddar or american cheese
    4 medium, sliced apples
    1/2 cup sugar
    1/2 cup chopped walnuts
    
    Preheat over to 350 degrees.  Combine first 5 ingredients til crumbly.
    Save 1/2 cup of mixture for topping.  Pat the rest firmly in 9 X 13 inch 
    pan.  Put 6 slices of cheese on top of mixture, spreading them out.  Mix
    the apple slices with the 1/2 cup of sugar, then layer them over the
    cheese.  Sprinkle 1/2 cup left-over crust mixture on top with walnuts.
    Bake 35-40 minutes til golden.
    

    These "Apple Pie Bars" are excellent!
    
    This recipe is from the Land O' Lakes Cookie Collection.  The original
    recipe called for 8-10 apples in a 10 x 15 x 1 -inch pan.  I have a
    9 x 13 x 3/4-inch pan, and I ended up using about 4 apples.  I also
    ended up using only about 1/2 the sugar mixture on top of the apples,
    since I was using less apple.  The quantities below reflect my
    modifications.

    			    Apple Pie Bars 



	    Crust:
	      Milk
	      1 egg yolk, reserve egg white
	      2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
	      1 tsp salt
	      1 cup butter, softened

	      
	    Filling:
	      1 cup crushed corn flake cereal
	      4 medium apples, peeled, cored, and sliched 1/4-inch
	      1/2 cup granulated sugar
	      3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
	      1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
	      1 reserved egg white
	      2 T granulated sugar
	      1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

	    Glaze:
	      1 cup powdered sugar
	      1 to 2 T milk
	      1/2 tsp vanilla)


       Heat oven to 350 degrees.  For crust, add enough milk to egg yolk
       to measure 2/3 cup; set aside.  In medium bowl, combine flour and
       salt.  Cut in butter until crumbly.  With fork, stir in milk
       mixture until dough forms a ball; divide into halves.  Roll out
       1/2 of the dough, on lightly floured surface, into a 9 x 13 inch
       rectangle.  Place on bottom of ungreased 9 x 13 inch jelly roll
       pan.

       For filling, sprinkle cereal over top; layer apples over ceral. 
       In a small bowl, combine 1 cup granulated sugar, 1 1/2 tsp
       cinnamon and nutmeg.  Sprinkle over apples.  Roll remaining 1/2
       of dough into a 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inch rectangle; place over apples. 
       In small bowl, stir together 2 T granulated sugar and 1/2 tsp
       cinnamon; sprinkle over crust.  Bake for 45 to 60 minutes, or
       until lightly browned.

       For glaze, in small bowl, stir together all glaze ingredients. 
       Drizzle over warm bars.  Cut into bars.

       Makes about 3 dozen bars.
    

    Fresh Apple Cake with Caramel Frosting
    
    Makes 1 13"x9" cake and 1 cup frosting
    
    Note:  The cake batter does not require added liquid.  The eggs and
    the apples are the only "wet" ingredients.  The juice from
    the apples that's exuded by baking adds the moisture to the cake. I am
    just telling you this now so you don't get to the middle of making the
    cake and ask, "What?  No milk?  Must be a mistake."  OK? 
    
    Recipe from Bakery Lane Soup Bowl Cookbook.  Bakery Lane Soup Bowl is
    (or was) a restaurant in Middlebury, Vermont.  
    
    Cake:
    
    2-1/3 c. flour			4 c. peeled, chopped apples
    2 c. sugar				1/2 c. soft shortening
    2 tsp. baking soda			1/2 c. chopped walnuts
    1 tsp. cinnamon			2 eggs, beaten
    1/4 tsp. cloves
    1/4 tsp. nutmeg
    
    Combine flour, sugar, soda, salt, and spices in large mixing bowl. 
    Blend well.  
    
    Add apples, shortening, nuts, and eggs.  Beat at medium speed until
    well blended.  
    
    *NOTE:  I chose to cut the shortening into the flour
    and THEN add the apples, beaten eggs, and nuts.  Came out good.**
    
    Pour into a greased and floured 9x13" pan.  Bake in pre-heated 325
    degrees (F) oven for 45 minutes, or until cake springs back when
    touched.  Cool on wire rack.  Frost in pan w. caramel frosting.   
    
    
    
    Caramel Frosting
    
    1/3 c. butter		1-1/2 c. sifted confectioner's sugar
    1/2 c. firmly-packed	1/4 tsp. vanilla
     brown sugar
    Dash of salt
    3 Tb. milk
    
    Melt butter in small saucepan. Add brown sugar and a dash of salt.
    Stir over medium heat until sugar melts.  Add milk and bring to a boil. 
    Pour into mixing bowl and cool 10 minutes.  Add confectioner's sugar
    and vanilla.  Beat to spreading consistency, adding additional
    confectioner's sugar, if necessary.  Frost cake.
    
    ***yum yum yum!
    
    Peigi

Apple Pie Cake


1/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup flour
1/2 cup chopped nuts
2 1/2 cups diced apples
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons hot water

Combine ingredients in order given.   (Batter will be thick).
Bake in a greased 9-inch pie pan for 45 minutes at 350F.
Serve warm with whipped cream or ice cream.  Delish.
-- 
Stephanie da Silva                                    arielle@taronga.com

    I am looking for an apple recipe - don't have the name, but can
    describe it.  This dish was prepared in a baking pan (square) and 
    had cored and peeled apple halves sitting on a vanilla custard base.
    Sprinkled with cinnamon and the whole thing had a crust on top.
    
    Had this at a work function years ago and have never been able to even
    find a recipe close to it.
    
    One of the places I contracted had a food "event" once a month. We
    would pull a food out of a hat (not literally!), such as apples, and
    everyone in the department would have to bring in an dish made with
    apples. We had a sign up sheet and no one could bring an item already
    listed! Wtih about 20 of us, it was always an adventure. We would
    reserve a conference room and have a terrific staff lunch.
    
    dana
    
    

    What you describe sounds like a rice-custard pudding that my mother
    used to make.  She always sliced apples over the top and sprinkled
    cinnamon and nutmeg over that.  I will try to find the recipe for you.