Appetizing Apple Dishes with Minimun Effort

[Welland Tribune October 31, 1941]

Apple Roll
4 medium sized apples
1 pint of water
1 1/2 cups of sugar

Select apples that will cook quickly; peel, core, and chop them fine. Put sugar and water in the baking pan over a slow fire While the syrup is cooking slowly, make up a  rich biscuit dough. Roll it out about 1/2 inch thick, spread it with chopped apples and roll it into a long roll; cut it into pieces about 1 1/2 inches long, place them with cut-side down in the hot syrup, put a small piece of shortening on top, and sprinkle the rolls with cinnamon and sugar. Bake them in a hot oven, 400 degrees F, until the apples are tender and the crust brown. Turn them into bowls and serve them with syrup and cream

Rich Biscuit Dough
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 tablespoons of sugar
4 teaspoons of baking powder
4 tablespoons of shortening
3/4 cup of milk

Sift the flour, salt, sugar and baking powder together, cut in the shortening add milk to make a soft dough, and roll it out lightly as has been explained.

Fried Apples with Bacon
3 apples
6 slices of bacon

Wash but do not peel the apples, Quarter, core and slice them. Then fry the bacon until it is crisp. Remove it from the frying pan, pour off some of the drippings, and put in the apples. Cook them slowly stir and turn over the apples until they are tender and slightly browned.

Apple Salad
Core and scoop out the centre of good Snow-apples (or a variety of good flavor) Put them in water containing a little lemon juice until ready to fill them. Dice and mix equal parts of celery, apple, grapefruit and honey dressing. Put in apple shells and serve on lettuce crisped in electric refrigerator.

Broiling Meal
Pork chops, Sweet Potatoes
Baked Apples

Arrange sliced cored apples and pork chops on a lightly greased broiling pan. Adjust pan in the electric oven so that the food is about 3 inches below the glowing broiling electric element. Broil 10 minutes with door partly open, then sprinkle with salt and pepper. Turn chops and potatoes. Add baked apples stuffed with cheese. Broil another 10 minutes.

Apple and Sausage Casserole
6 apples
Sugar (About 1/3 cup)
12 sausages
salt, pepper

Peel and slice apples thin arrange in buttered baking dish, sprinkle with a small amount of sugar. Place sausages on top and cover. Bake in an electric oven at 425 until apples are done. Uncover; turn sausages over and cook until they are nicely browned.

Apple Sherbet
Boil 1 quart of Canadian apples in 1 pint of water until soft. Rub through a sieve; add juice of 1 orange and 1 lemon, 1 cup sugar and 4 cups water. Beat well and freeze in electric refrigerator that has been turned to coldest point. When it becomes like a slush, add the well-beaten white of an egg and finish freezing.

Apple Butter and Cookie Pudding
Approximately 18 wafers
1 cup apple buttered
1 cup whipping cream

Vanilla, chocolate or ginger wafers may be used. Whip cream, fold in apple butter. Spread 1 tb of the mixture on a wafer, press another on top, spread it with the mixture and press another on the top, until all the wafers are used. As the stack grows lay it sideways. Frost over the outside of role with the mixture. Chill thoroughly in electric refrigerator. When serving cut in diagonal slices.

Apple Custard
1 1/2 cups milk, scalded
3 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup strained applesauce
Dash of nutmeg

Scald the milk, pour onto beaten eggs. Stir in sugar and salt. Add applesauce (if sweetened omit sugar) pour onto greased baking cups, sprinkle with nutmeg and set in a pan of warm water. Bake in electric oven at 350 until firm.

Cornmeal Griddle cakes with Applesauce
1 cup cornmeal
1 cup flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 egg, well beaten
2 1/2 cups milk
1/4 cup melted fat

Mix the cornmeal, flour, baking powder and salt. Combine the egg with the milk and add to the flour mixture. Stir in the melted fat, drop by spoonfuls on a hot griddle on the electric element turned to medium and cook. Butter while warm and serve with warm applesauce.

Ginger Pear Salad
1 pkg lemon jello
1 cup water, boiling
1 cup ginger ale
1 cup seedless white grapes
1 cup pears, diced
1/4 cup chopped ginger
lettuce and cress
Cream salad dressing

Dissolve the jelly power with the boiling water, cool and add the ginger ale also. When the mixture begins to thicken fold in the grapes, pears and chopped ginger. Pour into a greased mould and chill thoroughly in electric refrigerator. Unmould on beds of lettuce, garnish with cress and serve with cream salad dressing and a few cherries.

Apple Tarts
5 applesauce
1/2 cup cold water
3 eggs
1 lemon
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tbs butter
2 tbs fine sugar

Pare, core and cut up tart apples. Cook them in the water until soft using electric element turned to low as soon as boiling. Beat until smooth and when partly cool add beaten egg yolks, lemon juice, grated rind and granulated sugar. Fill unbaked tart shells with the mixture, dot with butter and bake in a hot electric oven at 425. Beat the egg whites stiff, add powdered sugar, spread on the top of tarts and return to the oven using a temperature of 350 for 5 minutes