MANY USES FOR APPLES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 22

MANY USES FOR APPLES

for the housewife than lemons, and we know how almost indispensable a lemon is! Try some of these ideas for apples in savouries, cakes, stuffings, chutney and sweet fillings. A tor have even more uses Baked Apple Sausage Roll Skin 2 lb. pork sausages and pat out together into an oblong. Spread on this 2 cups diced raw apple, 1 cup chopped onion (preferably par-boiled), 3 cup breadcrumbs, 1 teaspoon chopped sage (if liked), and a shake of pepper and salt. Rol] this up carefully like a rolypoly and dredge with flour, place in greased baking-dish. Bake in moderate oven till cooked and brown (about an hour). Serve with gravy and green vegetables. Apple Stuffing This is good for pork, duck or veal. Fry a small minced onion in a little butter (or fat) until light brown, add 3 sour apples, chopped or grated, and fry a little more, then stir in pepper and salt to taste, 1 dessertspoon sugar and one of grated lemon rind, and 1 breakfast cup breadcrumbs, Mix well, and moisten with a beaten egg, milk, or vegetable stock. Poor Man’s Goose Slice thickly a lamb or sheep liver. Make plenty of stuffing (given above). Into greased casserole put a double layer of sliced, par-boiled potatoes, then a layer of sliced raw apples, then one of liver slices. Sprinkle with chopped bacon, and then repeat till dish is full, finishing with potatoes. Pour over a teacup of water or gravy, cover with greased paper and bake in moderate even about 114 hours. Serve with apple sauce and green vegetables. Apple, Prune and Bacon Savoury Wrap rashers of fat bacon round soaked, stoned prunes and set on thick apple rings. Put on buttered baking sheet, and bake until apples are soft and bacon nicely crisped. Apple Fruit Cake Do not cut this cake for a fortnight. Have ready 114 cups stewed apples, sweetened with 14 cup sugar, and with 1 tablespoon butter melted into it. Mix together 1 cup brown sugar, 1 tablespoon cocoa, 1 dessettspoon spice, ¥2 teaspoon baking soda, 2 large cups flour, lemon peel and dried fruits to taste (114-2 cups). Add apple mixture, and a little more milk if necessary. Line tin with greased paper. Bake in moderate oven about 1142 hours. Apple-Meringue Cake Half cup shortening, 1 cup brown sugar, 2 egg yolks, unbeaten, 2 cups sifted flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, % téaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 12 teaspoon each of cloves and nutmeg, 1 cup thick, unsweetened apple sauce. Cream shortening with brown sugar, add egg yalks, blend well, Sift the flour, baking soda, salt and spices, add to the creamed mixture alternately with the apple sauce. Pour into a greased pan 8in. by 12in., which has been lined with grease paper. Top with this meringue:

Two. egg whites, 1% cup brown sugar, 42 cup nuts, chopped fine. Beat egg whites until _ stiff, gradually add sugar.

beat again until mixture peaks. spread over raw batter, sprinkle with finelychopped nuts, Bake in moderate oven until done. Apple Sauce Cake One cup sugar, 1 cup stewed apple (dry and unsweetened), 2 cup seeded raisins, % cup sultanas, 4% cup nuts, Y% teaspcon cinnamon, pinch salt, i) cup butter, 2 cups flour, 1 tablespoon peel, 2 level teaspoons baking soda, 1 tablespoon hot water, Cream butter and sugar, add cold apple, then fruits. Dissolve baking soda in hot water, add sifted dry ingredients. Put in greased tin, sprinkle nuts on top. Moderate oven about 1 hour. Apple Filling Bake 4 large apples. Mix the pulp of apples with juice of 1 orange, a little grated peel, % cup brown sugar, 2 tablespoons melted butter or cream, and 2 tablespoons honey. Beat, and keep in little jars. A pinch of cinnamon may also be added, Useful for cakes, etc. Apple Chutney Four pounds apples, 2 lb. tomatoes, 2 large onions, 1 lb. sugar, 2 oz, salt, 4 oz. ground ginger, % teaspoon cayenne, ¥% oz. allspice, 1 quart vinegar, 1 Ib. seedless raisins. Skin tomatoes, mince apples and peel onions. Tie spices in muslin bag. Boil all in saucepan 1 or more hours, till brown and cooked; % cup finely-chopped mint added makes interesting flavour.