Family Recipes

Ingredients

3 Medium Apples- cored + sliced into 1/2” rings

1/3 cup vinegar

1 cup granulated sugar

6 whole cloves

1-3 cinnamon sticks

Apple Rings

Start by coring and slicing your apples into 1/2 inch rings. Then combine vinegar, sugar, whole cloves, and cinnamon sticks in a pot and cook for 5 minutes. Once mixture has cooked for 5 minutes start adding in the apple slices 4 at a time in the syrup until transparent (remove carefully as they are hot) After all of your rings have been cooked and coated in the syrup place in a container and pour remaining syrup over the rings.

Ingredients

2 cups flour

1/2 tsp salt

4 Tbsp baking powder

1 Tbsp sugar

1/2 cup fat

Enough sweet milk to make dough

Fruit Cobbler 

Use whatever fruit is personal preference for this recipe. For berries, apples, or peaches put a layer of fruit on baking dish bottom. Then combine all ingredients listed to make the dough. Add a layer of the dough over the first layer of fruit, after the dough add a second layer of fruit to the dish. Followed by the remainder of the dough. Bake at 425° for 25 minutes or until the crust is golden brown.

Caramel Apple Crunch Pie (Grandpa Marvin’s Favorite)

Ingredients

28 vanilla caramels

2 Tbsp water

4 cups sliced apples

1 unbaked 9in pie shell

3/4 cup flour

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/3 cup butter or margarine

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Melt the caramels with water in top of a double boiler, stirring occasionally until mixture is smooth. Layer apples and caramel sauce in a pie shell. Combine flour sugar and cinnamon, cut in butter until mixture is crumbly. Stir in walnuts and sprinkle over top of pie. Bake at 375° for 50-60 minutes

Grandma Jo’s Award Winning Danish Pastry Apple Bars 

Ingredients

1 tsp salt

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup shortening

1 cup corn flakes

8-10 tart apples (8 cups) peeled, cored and sliced

3/4-1 cup granulated sugar

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 egg white

1 cup sifted powdered sugar

3-4 tsp milk

Stir together flour and 1 tsp of salt, cut in shortening. In a measuring cup beat the egg yolk, then add enough milk to measure up to 2/3 cup. Mix well and stir into the flour mixture. On a floured surface roll half of the dough to a 17x12 in rectangle, place and fit dough rectangle into the bottom of a 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1 in pan. Sprinkle with corn flakes and top with apple slices. Mix together granulated sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over the apples. Roll remaining dough into a 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 in rectangle and place over apples. Seal edges, cut slits in top.

Beat egg white till frothy brush on top of pastry. Bake at 375° for 50 minutes. While still warm drizzle with mixture of powdered sugar and 3-4 tsp of milk. Let cool and cut into bars

Ingredients

Filling or (Part 1)

2 cups sliced apples

1/2 cup sugar

Cinnamon

Nutmeg

Apple Goody

Crumble Topping or (Part 2)

1/2 cup oatmeal

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup flour

1/8 tsp salt

Combine all ingredients for filling and spread on the bottom of greased 8x12 dish. Combine all dry ingredients in separate bowl and stir in the butter with a fork. Sprinkle over the filling in a greased pan. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes

Grandma Jo’s Filled Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients

Cookies:

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

1 cup shortening

1 egg

1 tsp baking soda

1 Tbsp sour milk

2 cups ground oatmeal

2 cups flour

Filling:

1 cup sugar

1 cup ground apples

1 cup ground dates

Cream

Cream together shortening and brown sugar, add 1 egg and set aside. Dissolve the soda in the sour milk. Alternate adding the milk mixture and the dry ingredients into the creamed sugar mixture. Once mixed together to form a dough, roll out and cut.

Bake at 375° for 6-8 minutes

Once done let cool completely

For the filling add sugar, apples and dates to a pot with enough cream to cover in the pot, boil to your personally desired thickness, let cool slightly before filling.

Assemble cookies and enjoy!