APPLE CAKE
- 1½ cups flour
- 3 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons shortening
- ½ cup milk
- 4 or 5 apples
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; add shortening and rub in very lightly; add milk slowly to make soft dough and mix. Place on floured board and roll out ½-inch thick. Put into shallow greased pan. Wash, pare, core and cut apples into sections; press them into dough, sprinkle with sugar and dust with cinnamon. Bake in moderate oven 30 minutes or until apples are tender and brown. Serve warm with milk or cream.
APPLE DUMPLINGS
- 1 cup flour
- 2 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons shortening
- ½ cup milk
- 4 apples
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons butter
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; rub shortening in lightly; add just enough milk to make soft dough. Roll out ⅛-inch thick on floured board; divide into four parts; lay on each part an apple which has been washed, pared, cored and sliced; add one teaspoon sugar and ½ teaspoon butter to each; wet edges of dough with cold water and fold around apple pressing tightly together. Place in greased pan. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and put little butter on each dumpling. Bake 40 minutes in moderate oven. Serve with hard sauce [page 25].
Peach dumplings may be made in the same way.