Name: Amish Apple Dumplings
Ingredients: 6 Apples, peeled and cored; Lemon juice; 1/2 c White sugar, approx; 1 ts Cinnamon; Brown sugar; Butter; 2 Pie pastry for 2 pies; Sugar sauce:; 2 c Water; 3/4 c Sugar; 2 ts Vanilla; 2 tb Butter; 1/4 ts Nutmeg; 1/4 ts Mace

The Queen Mary, lying in repose in the harbor at Long Beach, California, is a fascinating museum of the past. Used both as a luxury liner in peacetime and a troop transport during the Second World War, its present status as a museum the length of three football fields affords a stunning contrast between the lifestyles appropriate in peace and war. On one side of a partition you see the dining room reconstructed to depict the peacetime table setting that was appropriate to the wealthy patrons of high culture for whom a dazzling array of knives and forks and spoons held no mysteries. On the other side of the partition the evidences of wartime austerities are in sharp contrast. One metal tray with indentations replaces fifteen plates and saucers. Bunks, not just double but eight tiers high, explain why the peacetime complement of 3000 gave way to 15,000 people on board in wartime. How repugnant to the peacetime masters this transformation must have been! To do it took a national emergency, of course. The survival of a nation depended upon it. The essence of the Great Commission today is that the survival of many millions of people depends on its fulfillment.

Ralph Winter

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Fruits		Desserts, Fruits	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6		Apples, peeled and cored
		Lemon juice
1/2	c	White sugar, approx
1	ts	Cinnamon
		Brown sugar
		Butter
2		Pie pastry for 2 pies
		Sugar sauce:
2	c	Water
3/4	c	Sugar
2	ts	Vanilla
2	tb	Butter
1/4	ts	Nutmeg
1/4	ts	Mace

INSTRUCTIONS

Roll out pastry and cut into squares enough  to cover apples completely.
Peel and core apples.  Roll in lemon juice. Then roll in white sugar and
cinnamon combined. Place on pastry square. Stuff core cavity with brown
sugar, butter, brown sugar in equal parts. (The amount depends on size of
core cavity, just stuff full.) Fold pastry up around apple to completely
enclose it.  Place in pan. Prepare sugar sauce by mixing water, sugar,
vanilla, butter, nutmeg, and mace and boiling for 1 minute. Let cool
slightly.  Pour over Apples. Bake in 375 F oven for 1 hour. Serve warm.
Note:  Apples may be frozen in pastry (before sugar sauce is added) if
desired.  Good dessert to make ahead if you have lots of apples around.
Just let thaw when ready to use, and cover with sugar sauce and bake as
usual.
Source:  Amish Cooking in Quilt Country show Typed by: Melissa Mierau,
Martensville, SK

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