Our apple trees in the back yard have produced thousands of apples this year! We have never seen it yield like this before. Dad planted the trees close to 30 years ago and my brother said it never had more than one or two apples.
Nine years ago we started to trim them back--they had grown so huge! And the apples started to come. Last year they had loads of fruit, but the drought left them tiny and useless. Other years the trees had a fungus from a wet spring and the apples had to be cut up with a small slice or two useful from each.
But this year....We are giving them away right and left. I have already made several batches of applesauce.
I looked up recipes in my cookbook to see what I am going to bake today. According to my Facebook Timeline, last year on this day I made Apple Scones. Yum!
I have heirloom recipes. From my mother-in-law Laura Grace O'Dell Bekofske, there is this easy $50 Apple Pie.
From my mother Joyce Adair Ramer Gochenour, I have Dutch Apple Pie.
In 1979, Gary served a small Philadelphia church in Kensington, Mt. Pisgah, and they made an Applesauce Cake.
In Bucks County, PA we picked up an Apple Cake from Wolgemuth Fruit Market.
The Lansing State Journal had a Caramel Crunch Apple Pie that my son and I made.
28 vanilla dairy caramels
2 tbsp water
4 cups peeled, sliced apples
1 unbaked pie shell
3/4 c flour
1/3 c sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/3 c butter
1/2 c chopped walnuts.
Another newspaper recipe that was very good is Cranberry Apple Crisp.
Some of the recipes in my book I haven't even tried yet.
This looks yummy! Why haven't I made it?
I believe this is a recipe from family, but I don't recall.
I remember this was from a cookbook, perhaps the 1972 Betty Crocker one in a binder; the pages all tore out and I tossed it long ago.
On my Paprika app I have thirty or more recipes of all sorts, including Squash Apple Soup and an Apple Bean bake.
So many decisions...
