The Old Covenant law was never given to earn salvation. God saved people back then just as He does today under the New Covenant – by faith! Even before the law we read that “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness” (Rom. 4:3). Therefore the Old Covenant law was given for God’s people to identify themselves as God’s people. The law was for those already saved so it may go well with them and they may know how to rightly honor God with their actions. In other words, the law didn’t save, but obedience to the law gave evidence of salvation. And when the law was violated, the whole sacrificial system was in place to make temporary atonement through blood for one’s transgression.

Randy Smith

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
	Dutch	Penndutch, Pies	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6		Apple, baking
1/4	lb	Lard
4	c	Flour
1/4	ts	Salt
1	ts	Cinnamon
1/8	lb	Butter
		Water

INSTRUCTIONS

Make a dough of the lard, flour and salt, adding enough water to moisten
and hold together. Roll out like pie dough and cut into 2 inch squares.
Wash and peel apples and cut into eighths. Put alternate layers of apples
and dough into kettle, sprinkling each layer of apples generously with
sugar and adding a little cinnamon. Have top layer of dough, dot with
butter and fill kettle half full of water, cover and cook over a low flame
until apples are soft. Serve with milk or cream. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch
Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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