Tart Apple Dumpling Recipe

Ingredients for Tart Apple Dumpling

• Tart apples
• ¼ teaspoon of salt
• Salt
• 3 tablespoons of butter
• 3 tablespoons of cold water
• 1 egg (this may be omitted)
• 1½ cups of pastry flour
• ¾ cup of milk (scant measure)
• 3 teaspoons of baking powder

Instructions

1. Butter an agate baking dish; into it slice tart apples to fill to the top; add a dash of salt and the cold water.
2. Make a soft biscuit dough of the other ingredients and spread it over the apples.
3. Bake in a quick oven about twenty-five minutes.
4. Invert the dish, so as to have the apples on the top.
5. Serve hot with butter and sugar or syrup.
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7. From slices of stale sponge cake cut out as many rounds as there are slices of pineapple to be used.
8. Have the rounds of cake of the same size as the rounds of pineapple or a little larger.
9. Butter the slices of cake, dredge with sugar and set them into the oven to brown and glaze.
10. Cook the syrup from the pineapple with about half a cup of sugar and a tablespoon of lemon juice; add the slices of pineapple, let boil once, then keep hot until ready to serve.
11. Set a round of pineapple above each round of cake, pour over the sauce, and serve at once.