Vintage Recipes Collection: Scalloped Apples

Vintage Cookbook: School and Home Cooking (1920)

Ingredients

  • 2 cupfuls soft bread crumbs

  • 2 tablespoonfuls butter or substitute

  • 3 cupfuls apples

  • 1/2 cupful sugar

  • 1/4 teaspoonful cinnamon

  • 1/2 teaspoonful nutmeg

  • 1/2 lemon, juice and grated rind

  • 1/4 cupful water

Instructions

Mix the bread crumbs with the fat as directed for Stuffed Tomatoes.

Chop or cut the apples in small pieces, and add the remaining ingredients to the apples. Arrange the crumbs and apple mixture in a baking dish as directed for Scalloped Corn. Bake 40 to 60 minutes (until the apples are tender and the crumbs brown), in a moderate oven. Cover during first 20 minutes of baking. Serve hot with sugar and cream or Hard Sauce. Care should be taken in grating lemon rind. Only the thin yellow portion should be used as flavoring.

Vintage Recipes Collection: Apple Black Caps

Vintage Cookbook:  Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six (1879).

 

Ingredients

  • 1 quart of nice apples

  • sugar

  • cloves

  • yellow rind of a lemon or orange

Instructions

Pare the apples, core them without breaking, set them side by side in a baking dish that will just hold them, fill the centres with sugar, place two cloves in the top of each one, grate over them the yellow rind of a lemon or orange, and put them into a moderate oven only until they are tender; do not let them break apart. As soon as they are tender take them from the oven, heat a fire shovel red hot and hold it over them, near enough to blacken their tops. Serve either hot or cold.

A porcelain-lined baking dish, or a gratin pan, is the best dish for cooking the black-caps in, because either can be set upon a clean plate and sent to the table; if the apples have to be removed from the dish in which they were baked they may be broken, and then the appearance of the dish will be spoiled.

The flavor of the dish may be changed by varying the spice, and by occasionally using a little wine or brandy with the sugar. The cost of a dish large enough for half a dozen persons will be covered by ten cents, unless it is made when apples are scarce and dear.