Volume 5 Article 5 Number 6 The Iowa Homemaker vol.5, no.6
1925 When in Doubt---Try Apples Beth Bailey McLean Iowa State College
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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oI wa Homemaker by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 4 THE IOWA HOMEMAKER When in Doubt---Try Apples By BETH BAILEY McLEAN Formerly Associate Professor of Foods and Nutrition, Iowa State College a layer of the meat, then a layer of sliced Boil five minutes. Cool. Add the juice apples. Season with salt and a little of half a lemon and the juice of one chopped onion. Add another layer of orange. Or beat into the hot syrup 2 meat, then apples. Add 2 tablespoons of tablespoonsful of currant or grape jelly. water. Cover tightly. Bake in a slow Serve the chilled apple balls in tall sher oven until the apples are tender. Fresh bet glasses w1th 2 tablespoonsful of the meat may be used in the same way, sauce poured over each serving of apples. browning the pieces of meat before put· Apples served with meats, fish and ting into the casserole. fowl: Cinnamon Apples Old English Pork Pie With Apples Cook 1 cup water and 1 cup suga\" for 3 lb. pork shoulder five minutes. Add a few drops of cinna Salt and pepper mon extract and half a tablespoonful of 2 tablespoons sugar red coloring. Peel and core the apples Nutmeg and cook slowly uncovered in the syrup 3-4 cup stock until tender. The apples may be cut in 1 tablespoon butter half inch rings, or into quarters instead 3 tart apples Jonathan Apples of being left whole. Turn the apples so Line a baking dish with plain pastry. that they cook thoroughly without losing Put in a layer of sliced pork, then apples, HE old adage, "An apple a day their shape. Let the apples stand in the sprinkle wtih seasonings. Make another hot syrup several hours to become red layer of pork, then apples, ·and add the T keeps the doctor away", states very all the way through". These may be concisely how valuable apples are stock or milk, and butter. Put on a top in the diet. 'Tis but a simpler way of served hot with pork chops or roast. Or crust with a vent for steam. Brush over one may serve chilled cinnamon apples with beaten egg. Bake half hour in the saying that apples contain the body regu with salad dressing or with whipped lating substances as cellulose, acids, min oven, then one and a half hour in a erals and some vitamins. cream. slower oven. Serve hot or cold. But who needs to be told these things Apple Rings to create a liking for apples! Was there Select red, firm apples without skin Chantilly Apple Sauce ever a fruit so universally liked? Is blemishes. Remove the stem and blos Steam 6 medium sized apples until ten there any fruit that lends itself to more som end. Wash. Cut across the core of der. Put through sieve. Add 2 table ways of serving? Do you know of any the apple, making 1,4 inch slices. Re spoonsful of sugar and 1,4 cup grated fruit that is more generally available? move the seeds. This leaves a diamond horseradish. .Cool thoroughly. Fold in And think of the many varieties of ap shape in the center. Make a syrup using 1 cup of whipped cream. Serve in a ples-suited to meet all soils and cli two cups of sugar and 11h cups of water. bowl with roast duck or goose. mates. In fact, most everyone could have Use a large bottom pan. When the syrup Apple Stuffing an apple tree in his yard if he but put has bolled five minutes, add apple rings forth the effort. to cover the surface. Simmer gently un A goose or duck is especially good Apples vary so in flavor that everyone til transparent but unbroken. The skin stuffed with apple dressing. Make a bread has his favorite kind. The summer ap will hold the rings in shape. When done, dressing in your usual way, except that this must be very dry. Add ¥.a the quan· ples lose their shape in cooking and even remove the rings carefully to a hot pan tity of chopped apples. Oue cup of the winter apples differ in their cooking and continue cooking the rest of the chopped, cooked chestnuts may be added. qualities. There are many charts show r:ngs. Serve with broiled ham or pork Stuff the bird and bake. ing what a~ples are best for pies, for chops-one apple ring overlapping the sauce, for th1s and that. But few women other on the edge of the platter. Apple and Rice Stuffing agree with these charts. For one reason Caramel Apples . To 1 cup of rice, boiled or steamed un -some people want whole slices of ap til nearly tender, add 2 cups of chopped ples in the finished pie, while others in 6 apples apples, ¥.a cup melted butter, salt and sist on a soft blended mass of pulp. Then, 1 cup sugar cinnamon to taste. Mix well and use to too, an Oregon apple is quite different 1 cup water stuff turkey or goose. from the same variety grown in Iowa. 1 tablespoonful butter So it seems quite necessary for each Nutmeg APPLE RELISHES housewife to try out the apples found in Wash, pare, halve and core the apples. Apple Chutney her market, and decide for herself wheth Put the apples core side down in a gran 12 tart apples er she will buy Jonathan, Spitzbergen, ite or glass baking dish. Mix the sugar 1 onion Northern Spy, or some other variety. (either white or brown), water, butter 2 red peppers It is always more economical to buy and nutmeg. Pour over the apples[ Cover 2 green peppers apples by the box, rather than by the the dish. Bring quickly to a boil, then 1 cup seeded raisins pound. And it is possible to find a kind simmer gently until transparent. The 1 pint mild vinegar of apple that will suit all uses. The three apples should stay whole and the syrup 2 cups sugar varieties just named are fine for all will be thick and jelly-like. Serve with 4 lemons around use. roast fowl or pork. 1 tablespoon ginger Do not limit the use of apples in your 1,4 teaspoon cayenne Fried Apples With Breakfast Bacon home to apple sauce, baked apples, apple 1 tablespoon salt pie and apple salad. True it is that there Fry the bacon strips, being careful to is a greater number of recipes for apple keep the fat light and unburnt. Remove Chop the apples, onions and peppers desserts than for other uses of apples. the crisp bacon to a pan to keep hot. very fine. Add the vinegar. Simmer one But apples may be used at any meal and Wash, core and slice the apples in thin hour. Add other ingredients. Use the in any course of the meal. The follow slices. Add to the hot fat and fry until juice and grated rind of the lemons. Let ing recipes are but a few suggestions for soft and quite brown. Don't cook too boil 1 hour, stirring often. Seal in glass uses of this most valuable fruit. fast, nor overcrowd the pan. Red-skinned jars. apples are most attractive used this way. Apple Cocktail Serve on the platter with the bacon. Apple Catsup With a French vegetable cutter, make 12 sour apples small apple balls, or use an apple corer Meat and Apple Dishes 1 cup sugar to cut cylinder shapes. Cut these cylin Left-over mutton or veal may be pre 1 teaspoon pepper ders into half inch pieces. Make a syrup pared in the following way: Cut the meat 1 teaspoon cloves using 1¥.a cup sugar and 1 cup of water. into pieces. In a buttered casserole put (Continued on page 11) THE IOWA HOMEMAKER 11
2. Apple, celery ,almond, and green pep When in Doubt-Try pers. 3. Apple, cabbage and cocoanut. Apples 4. 2 cups chopped apple, "h cup chopped (Continued from page 4) American cheese and "h cup chopped .~:~:=::~~~~~·~~-~~~:1 1 teaspoon mustard Grade Photography sweet cucumber p"ckles. 1417 Main St. Phone 28 2 teaspoons cinnamon 5. 2 cups chopped apples, 2 cups cold . _CI_O_D_O-.c!_D_D_D_D_II_D_D_ C• 1 tablespoon salt cubed veal or pork, 1 cup chopped 2 on:ons celery. 1 pint v:negar Quarter, pare and core the apples. APPLES FOR PARTIES OR SPECIAL Martin's Dress Club Cover with water and s·mmor t 'll soft. OCCASIONS Cl:op the onions fine. Combine all the ingred:ents and Jet simmer one hour or Apple Gi nger Men's Furnishings until the consistency of catsup. Seal Quarter, pare, core and chop sour ap while hot. ples to make ten cups. Boil up ten cups Ladies' and Men's Cleaning sugar, 2 lemons sl:ced very fine, 2 2-inch and Pressing APPLES WITH VEGETABLES pieces of ginger root. Add the apples Scalloped Apples and Sweet Potatoes and Jet simmer until transparent. Do not 2414 Lincoln Way 2 cups bo:Jed sweet potatoes hurry these or the mixture will burn. "h cup light brown sugar Turn into jelly glasses and serve cold Phone 1362-W 1 "h cup steed sour apples with cold meat sandwiches or salads. 4 tablespoons butter Apple Punch Ames, Iowa 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup grape juice • ..-..o.-.o_O_D_O_D_D_Q_CI_CI_D_II_ C• Cut the cold bo"led sweet potatoes into 1 cup cider ~ inch slices. Slice the apples in thin 2 lemons •)I_O_D_D_D_D_D_D_D_D_~-D-. sl:ces. Butter a bak:ng dish. Put into 1% cup sugar this a layer of the potatoes, then app:es. 1 quart water Spr:nkle with sugar and salt and dot wah Make a syrup of the sugar and water. Thanksgiving Day butter. Make a second layer in the same Cool add the juice of the lemons, grape nmmmmlllllllllllmllllllllilllllilllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll'llllllllllllllllllll way. Bake in a moderate oven one hour. ju:ce and cider. Serve ice cold. One pint Cold cooked Hubbard squash may be used charged water may be used in place of You will want nut cups, in place of the sweet potatoas. half the water in the syrup. Add this Apple Breads with the other ingredients. place cards, favors and To a piece of bread dough the size used C' der and g·nger ale in equal parts candies. We have a for a loaf of bread·, work in one beatE:n make a good punch, also. egg and ~ cup melted buaer and 1,4 cup Candy Apples or Apple Lollypops complete line to select sugar. These may be added to some of 2 cups sugar the sponge before the flour is added if 1 cup corn syrup from. one w.shes. Spread out the dough half 7 "h cups milk an inch thick in a shallow rectangular 1,4 tsp. salt Goddard ·Gift pan. Let r:se. Peel, core and cut the Cook the sugar, syrup, and 1 cup milk apples into eighths. Press the sharp until a J'ttle tested in water w:ll form a edges of the wedge-shaped pieces of apple good soft ball. Add "h cup milk and cook Shop light'y in+o the surface of the dough unt:J a hard ball is formed in water. Stir Spr:nkle w:th mixed sugar and c·nnamon. constantly to prevent burning wh'Je Home of the Bake in a qu"ck oven. Serve hot for cooking. Remove from fire. Select per Martha Washington Candies luncheon or supper. fect red apples. Clean. Stick a wooden Fudge Cream, 50c per lb. One may use bak"nr; powder b"scuit skewer secured at a mrat markr t into the dough in plac'J of the bread dough. Add stem end of each apple. Dip each apple to 3-4 cup milk, 1 egg and 2 tablespoons into the syrup to tho:-ough1y coat. . Let sugar. Mix 2 cups flour, 4 teaspoo
Mix and sift flour, baking powder and nut. Pour over baked apples. Sprinkle When in Doubt-Try salt. Work in the 1-3 cup fat. Add the with cocoanut. Return to oven to brown Apples water to make a pie paste. Roll out to the cocoanut or serve without brown:ng. 1,4 inch thickness in square shape. Pare Marshmallow Apples (Continued from page 11) and core medium sized apple. Cut the layer of the sugar and flour m:xture. Use dough into four squares. On each square Just before removing baked apples 1,4 cup butter to dot the surface. Add an place an apple. F :ll the center of the from the oven, stuff a marshmallow into other layer of sliced apples, then the su apple with sugar (white or brown), sprin each core hole. Let the marshmallow gar mixture, and another i,4 cup butter. kle with nutmeg. Dot with butter. Brlng brown. Remove from oven. M'x 1 teaspoon of vanilla with 2 table the four corners of the square over the Meringue Apples spoo:Js of water. Pour over the top layer apple. Mo"sten the edges with water and When apples are baked, fill the ·centers of apples. Put on the top crust. Press press firmly together. Pierce with a with jelly or marmalade. Make an mar ;og€ther around the edge. Spr:nkle light fork. Bake in a greased pan in a mod ingue with the whites of two eggs and 4 ly with sugar. Start to bake in an oven erate oven about 40 m"nutes, or until tablespoons of sugar, flavor with lemon. with good heat from the bottom, to cook the apple is tender and the crust is well Spread the mer:ngue over the tops of the \he lower crust before it becomes soggy. browned. Serve hot or cold with cream apples, leaving a rough, jagged surface. Reduce the heat and bake one hour. or a pudding sauce. Bake about 2 minutes in a moderate oven, to set the meringue. Serve hot. Apple Torte VARIATIONS IN BAKED APPLES Blushing Apples 3 cups chopped apples Cocoanut Apples 1 cup sugar Core and bake or cook, in bo\ling wa 1h cup flour Wash and core four app'es. Bake in a ter, 6 red apples. Carefully remove the 1 cup ra:s·ns and nuts moderate oven, using 2 tablespoons wa skin. If apple is not red on all sides, 1 egg beaten ter in the pan. Make a syrup. us·ng 1 spread the red pulp completely over the 2 tsp. baking powder cup brown sugar, 1 tablespoon butter and whole apple with a kn:fe. Use the water Salt lh cup m:lk. Add lh cup shredded cocoa- (Continued on page 19) 1 tbsp. butter melted Mix and bake in a buttered square •)~~~~o-~-.o ___..,.. ______.... ______..._ .... __ o!.o cake pan 40 minutes. If the apples are firm, th:s torte will turn from the pan and may b e cut in squares to serve. If apples I Good Candy is Always Appreciated cook up_ serve into sherbet glasses by spoonsful. Serve with cream. Thi.s may be served either hot or cold. Try a box of our famous "Norris' or Murray's Chocolates" Apple DumpJ:ngs Try our Luncheon-service and food are the best. 1¥2 cups flour A tr~al will convince you. 1-3 cup fat 3 tsp. bak"ng powder lh tsp. salt Mallory"s . Luncheonette 1h cup water 2 tbsp. butter 2500 Lincoln Way lh cup sugar Nutmeg or cinnamon
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apple sections to syrup. It is best to use as they are called. The Thanksgiving Dinner a shallow pan so that apple sections float We finally come to machine-made laces. (Continued from page 1) on the surface. Cook slowly till apples The Nottingham looms of England were pear stick several green leaves, at the are transparent. Carefully lift apples the first lace-making machines made, and other end stick in a clove. Make a little from syrup. To 1 cup syrup add table it is said they were evolved out of the mound of dressing at one side. Let this spoon gelatine softened in a little cold stocking loom. Improvements have been stand on ice until ready to serve. This water. Let cool. Add 1 teaspoon lemon made on this loom, until now an imitation salad may be served as a separate course juice. Put the apple sections into a glass lace almost defies detection. Frequently or along with the meat course. or aluminum mold. Pour over the gela it is said that unless one can afford real To summarize, it would be well to re· tine mixture. When firm, turn from mold lace, one should not use lace at all. I member that even though Thanksgiving and serve with whipped cream. think this is an incorrect statement. comes but once a year, we should try to Apple Fritters have as well balanced a meal on that day 1lh cup flour Emily Hunting '19 and Julia Kessel as we have at any other well planned 2 tsp. baking powder Shackleton Ex'17 are now enrolled in Mrs. Prince's school of salesmanship at meal. We must not think that to have 14 tsp. salt a bountiful meal we must have several 1 egg Boston. duplicates as potatoes, rice, squash, 2-3 cup milk sweet potatoes or two or three different 2 sour apples ·~-~~-~-a-~(ct kinds of pie. If we have a carbohydrate, Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Beat as potatoes, a protein food as our meat the eggs and add the milk. Mix the wet dish, a relish of some kind at least one and dry ingredients. Beat. Let stand United Cigar Store green vegetable, either fresh or canned, one hour. Pare, core and cut the apples some fruit and a dessert, we will have in thin slices or small chunks. Stir into 218 Main a fairiy well balanced meal. Do not try the batter. Drop by spoonsful into hot to over do your Thanksgiving dinner. deep fat and fry to a delicate brown. Have it well planned, well prepared and Serve at once with a tart sauce, as lemon, well served. o.range, maraschino or jelly sauce. When in Doubt-Try Real Lace PARTICULAR PEOPLE Apples (Continued from page 3) PATRONIZE (Continued from page 13) Guipure. It was the earliest Irish lace in in which the apples are cooked to make dustry, and is made in this manner: a ALM'S this sauce. 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, pattern, which is put into a frame, is juice and rind of 1 orange. Boil till covered over with a thin, white muslin; thick. Pour over the apples and serve this pattern, which is visible thru the SH-OE SHOP with whipped cream. muslin, is then outlined on the cloth with an over and over stitch; the designs are Jellied Apples connected by bars of thread covered over Pare, core and cut apple into six with buttonhole stitch; the last step is teenths. Use 1 quart. Make a syrup, to cut away the fabric outside the out ------1using 2 cups sugar to 2 cups water. Add line and underneath the bars or "brides",
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