Quickie Apple Crisp 1958 Recipes

Steps:

• Toss apples with lemon juice, sugar, and cinnamon; turn into an 8x8" baking pan that has been lightly coated with no-stick cooking spray; dot with butter.
• Cut together flour, brown sugar, and butter until crumbly; sprinkle evenly over apples.
• Bake at 350° for 30-40 minutes until apples are tender; serve warm with vanilla ice cream or fresh whipped cream.
• VARIATION: This recipe can be made diabetic-friendly by substituting Splenda for the granulated sugar and substituting 1/2 cup Splenda for 1/2 cup of the brown sugar - the remaining 1/2 cup of brown sugar is still used.

Steps:

• Turn an apple on its side. Insert one end of a toothpick into a gumdrop and stick the other end (wider end facing out) into the bottom of the apple core to form a snout. *Note: For me it was easier to stick the toothpick into the apple then push the gumdrop into the toothpick.
• Read *Note above: Break toothpicks in half and affix four gumdrops (wider end of gumdrops facing out) as feet. Set clove nostrils in the nose and clove eyes above the snout.
• Twist off the stem, poke a hole with a toothpick, and insert an inch-long piece of shoestring licorice into the hole to make a tail. (I tried to make the tail corkscrew as shown on the Family Fun website but it didn't work well).
• Finally, cut a piece of fruit leather into a rectangle measuring 1 by 1/2 inch, then cut again on the diagonal to form two equal-size triangles.
• Affix upright triangles with small pieces of toothpick or icing gel to create ears, then bend over the upper portion of each triangle to cover the spot where the toothpick shows.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F
• Heat skillet and cook bacon 1 minute.
• Add onions, garlic, and 2 tablespoons parsley.
• Cook, stirring, until onion is tender and bacon is cooked.
• Add gravy, tomato paste, salt, pepper and lamb.
• Place mixture in a 1 1/2 quart casserole.
• Cover and bake 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
• Uncover and spoon cream on top.
• Sprinkle with cheese.
• Bake until mixture is browned and cheese is melted, about 10 minutes.
• Top with remaining parsley.

Steps:

• Put all the topping ingredients and a pinch of sea salt in a bowl and rub together with your fingers until combined into a crumb-like texture - this can also be done in a food processor. Chill until needed. Will keep chilled for up to two days.
• Toss the apples with the sugar and lemon zest and juice until evenly coated, and tip into a 23cm round baking dish that's at least 5cm deep, or a 20cm square dish. Flatten down with your hand and scatter over the topping. Will keep covered and chilled for a day.
• Heat the oven to 190C/170C fan/ gas 5. Sit the crisp on a baking tray and bake for 40 mins until the topping is a deep golden and the fruit is bubbling at the edges. Leave to cool for 10 mins, then serve with ice cream or custard.

Steps:

• Cut cold butter into small cubes. Place in freezer to chill further.
• PREPARE APPLES.
• Peel apples.
• Cut an apple into quarters. Cut out core. Cut each apple slice one more time so that there are 8 slices.
• Cube the apple by cutting each slice the "short" way 2 or 3 times. Apple chunks should be no smaller than 1 inch (or they will get too mushy when cooking).
• Cube the remaining apples.
• Put apples into an 8 1/2 x 12 inch au gratin casserole dish, or an equivalent baking dish (it's pretty forgiving).
• Pour water over apples.
• PREPARE TOPPING:.
• In the food processor put the sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt and flour. Pulse until combined.
• Remove butter from freezer and put into food processor.
• Pulse to blend. Topping should be smaller than peas but not as fine as cornmeal.
• Add 3/4 cups chopped pecans pulse too mix.
• Sprinkle topping over apples evenly.
• Cover dish with foil.
• Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.
• Uncover.
• Bake for 30 more minutes.
• Cool before serving.

Steps:

• Drain mushrooms and reserve about 1/4 cup of juice.
• Heat oil in a large skillet.
• Add beef, onion and celery, and saute until lightly browned.
• Add bean sprouts, consomme and mushrooms.
• Mix cornstarch with reserved mushroom liquid until smooth.
• Stir into beef mixture.
• Cook, stirring, for 10 minutes.
• Stir in soy sauce.