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DELICIOUS SNACK ATTACKERS #1 Use the apple slicer/corer to cut a bright shiny Gala or Red Delicious into 8 slices with core removed. Spread gobs of peanut butter on each slice and eat. Or roll in raisins after coating with peanut butter. #2 Cut Red Chief into chunks. Roll in mayonnaise, then dip in crisp chopped bacon, chopped nuts or grated cheese. Serve with tooth pick. #3 Chop Red Chief finely without paring. Add 1/4 Cup chopped walnuts, salad dressing or cream cheese to make paste. Spread on celery stalks and cut to serve in bite size pieces. QUICK MacSAUCE Pare MacSpur apples, then cut with slicer/corer to fill 3 quart microwave cooking bowl. Cover & heat at highest setting for 5 minutes. Stir with hand masher adding 1/4 Cup Brown Sugar and mash to consistency you prefer. Cook additional 2-3 minutes if still too chunky. Serve warm, or chill and serve. SMOOTHEE STIR-FRY Core and slice Smoothee Gold Delicious apples, 8 slices to the apple and set aside until you fry up a skillet of bacon to your liking. Remove bacon, drain most of fat, and add apples slices to the skillet to cook on med-hi heat till they go limp and transparent. Sprinkle with 1/4 Cup Brown Sugar or drizzle honey to taste and heat through. Serve with bacon and a favorite salad. Note: You may wish to fry apples after pan frying ham, or pork chops, too. In peach season, just use large chunks of peaches or nectarines for another spin off on this easy stir fry theme. MABEL'S APPLE CRISP Pare & slice 6 cups of Smoothee apples. Coat them with 1/2 Cup Sugar and place in greased 9" square baking pan. Mix together: Melt: 1/3 Cup Butter to drizzle over all. Bake at 350 F 30-40 min. JONNEE HAMWICH Spread 12 slices of rye or flavorful whole-wheat bread with mayo/mustard mixture proportioned to your liking. Top each with slices of baked ham, four slices each of thinly sliced Jonnees cored and Swiss cheese. Then microwave until cheese melts or broil until slightly browned. Makes 12 for brunch. ROMAN PEANUT LUNCH Split & lightly toast English muffins. Spread with chunky peanut butter. Core 2 LawSpur Romes but don't peel. Cut into four slices and place on muffin halves. Partially cook or broil bacon slices cut in half. Top apples with bacon and sprinkle with cinnamon. Broil until bacon is crisp. Serves 8. GINNY'S APPLE BUTTER Fill a 4 Quart Crock Pot with PaulaRed in summer, Empire in fall, or Stayman apples in winter pared, cored, chunked. Cook till soft and mashable into sauce. Add: Cook all night, about 8 hours, on Low heat. Test for doneness by stirring and dropping from spoon. If too runny, continue to cook till thickened to your liking for spreading on bread. Pour into hot sterilized jars and seal. GRANDMOTHER'S HOLIDAY YORKS Pare 6 YORK apples, half & core. Cook in heavy 2 quart pan in: Add 1/4 Cup Red Hot Cinnamon Dots and stir till dissolved to color apples. Great for Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving. For St. Patrick's Day, use a few drops of Green Food Coloring and few drops of Peppermint Extract to taste instead of red hots. Make both for Christmas! Store in quart jar submerged in the colored juice to
continue coloring. 3 Quarts Rome Apples Wash & slice apples. no need to peel. Place apples in heavy pan and add water. Cover and cook until soft. Run through food mill or sieve. CHILL. Add sugar and stir until dissolved. (Less sugar is required when apple sauce has chilled first. For the special little people in your life, freeze potions of this pink sauce in 1 Cup margarine containers, then serve from freezer. Scraping and spooning the frosty apple sauce will certainly please. MAPLE LAWN FARMS EIGHT GREAT APPLE PIE Pare and slice eight different varieties of apples: Macintosh, Smoothee Gold,
Jonnee, Empire, Stayman, Rome, JonaGold, Mutzu, York, etc. Dot with butter, squirt with lemon juice. Top with vented crust and bake at
425 degrees F for 45 min. until juice starts bubbling from crust openings. MOTHER'S IDIOT PROOF PIE CRUST In a mixing bowl combine: Can be reworked if you goof. Refrigerate left over dough up to one week. Roll out dough into 12-18" diameter circle. OR: Use the entire dough recipe to make MLF APPLE DUMPLINGS. For best results, use medium firm apples like: Smoothee, Empire, Jonnee, Rome. Depending on size of apples, pare, core, then use as whole or half in dumpling. Divide Idiot Proof Pie dough mixture into three equal balls, flatten, roll out separately dividing each into four squares. Then place into center of each dough section a whole or half apple prepared ahead. Fill cavity with a bit of sugar, white or brown; honey; nuts; raisins; or all of above. Be creative. Wrap dough around each masterpiece sealing with ice cold water. Place the dozen dumplings into a 9" x 13" glass baking pan tightly wedged and bake at 425 F 45 minutes or longer till golden brown and bubbly. Serve plain, or with milk, ice cream, or cider sauce. |
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