Recipes for Life | Apple Dumplings

Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
2 cups water
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
¼ cup butter
6 apples
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking powder
¾ cup shortening
½ cup milk

Instructions:

Make a syrup of sugar, water, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add butter. Pare and slice apples. Sift flour, salt, and baking powder; cut in shortening. Add milk all at once and stir. Roll ¼ inch thick; cut in 5-inch squares. Place sliced apples on each square. Sprinkle generously with additional sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg; dot with butter. Fold corners to the center; pinch edges together. Place one inch apart in greased pan. Pour over syrup. Bake in 375° oven for 35 minutes. Serve with cream.

Recipe submitted by Mrs. Russell Spurgeon

Note: This recipe comes from Bible and Mixing Bowl in a Woman’s World, published in 1962. The net proceeds from the sale of this book helped fund the Memorial Student Loan Fund, later became Dr. Mary R. Wisehart Student Scholarship.

The co-editors were Mrs. Roy O’Donnell (Mt. Olive, North Carolina) and Mrs. Eunice Edwards (Nashville, Tennessee). Published by WNAC. Each page of the book contained two recipes, a meal plan, a devotional thought or poem, and a brief biography of the recipe's author.