Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Apple Dumplings. (No. 2.) ✠

• 1 quart flour.
• ¼ lb. suet.
• 1 teaspoonful salt.
• ½ teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water.
• 1 teaspoonful cream-tartar sifted in the flour.
• Cold water enough to make into a tolerably stiff paste.

Roll out, cut into squares, put in the middle of each a fine, juicy apple, pared and cored. Fill the hole left by the core with marmalade, or with sugar wet with lemon-juice. Stick a clove in the sugar. Close the paste, tie up in the cloths, when you have wet them with hot water and floured them, and boil one hour.

A pleasing idea for dumpling cloths is to crochet them in a close stitch with stout tidy cotton. They are easily done, wash and wear well, and leave a very pretty pattern upon the paste when they are opened. Crochet them round, with a cord for drawing run into the outer edge.