Dutch Apple Cake

Recipe from The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook

OtherOtherEasy30 minBy Northstar

Ingredients

Servings
4
  • 1 cup scalded milk
  • 23/4 cups flour
  • 1/3 cup butter
  • Melted butter
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 5 sour apples
  • 1/3 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup
  • 1 yeast cake
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons currants

Instructions

  1. 1

    Mix first four ingredients.

  2. 2

    When lukewarm add yeast cake, eggs unbeaten, and flour to make a soft dough.

  3. 3

    Cover, let rise, beat thoroughly, and again let rise.

  4. 4

    Spread in a buttered dripping-pan as thinly as possible and brush over with melted butter.

  5. 5

    Pare, cut in eighths, and remove cores from apples.

  6. 6

    Press sharp edges of apples into the dough in parallel rows lengthwise of pan.

  7. 7

    Sprinkle with sugar mixed with cinnamon and sprinkle with currants.

  8. 8

    Cover, let rise, and bake in a moderate oven thirty minutes.

  9. 9

    Cut in squares and serve hot or cold with whipped cream sweetened and flavored.

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