Apple Dumplings

Apple Dumplings                                 From: Mom Seibert

This is Auntie Dagmar's recipe. Yum!

SIFT:       3 cups flour              1 teaspoon salt                         4 teaspoon baking powder

CUT IN:   8 tablespoon shortening

ADD:       1 ½ cups milk.  Mix lightly together and cut into 16 equal pieces.

SIMMER for 10 minutes:          1 ½ cups brown sugar             1 ½ cups white sugar

                                                ½ cube butter                           2 cups boiling water

Peel 8 large cooking apples slice in halves and core.  In center of each half put 1 tsp. sugar,

1 small piece of butter and a dash of cinnamon.

Roll out dough.  Place half apple in center and fold dough over.  Place in baking dish –

not too close.  Pour boiling syrup over apples.  Bake at 35° for 50 minutes.  Baste syrup

over dumplings when it has been in the oven about 30 minutes and again after done cooking.

Serve warm with whipped cream or ice cream.