Our Cookbook Blog

Our Cookbook ~ What We Cook, is a compilation of every recipe we (Janice and Carissa) cook - recipes from our cookbook collections, our recipe boxes, and our heads! We set up this blog for friends and family who have our cookbook to let them see pictures we post of the recipes in the book, and also for us to note any corrections, revisions, or additions to What We Cook. We encourage people who are cooking our recipes to let us know how the recipes turn out and any suggestions they might want to make.

In addition, we will be sharing some of our new recipes (along with pictures) that are not in our cookbook. We hope you will help us out and test recipes and give us your comments.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Apple Pandowdy ~ page 229

This old-fashioned recipe is an easy, fast way to make an apple pie. I suspect that originally leftover scraps of pie dough were used, hence the "messy, or dowdy" appearance.
I made the dough up a day in advance (in the food processor), shaped it into a disc, and wrapped with plastic wrap, then slipped it into a zipper-top bag and into the fridge to chill.
I like to use a selection of both tart and sweet apples. Cut in big hunks--I take each quartered apple and cut it into thirds for thick pieces.
The apples are tossed with a cinnamon, sugar, flour, and lemon juice mixture. Scatter butter slices on the top of the apples.
Roll out the cold dough and cut into 2-inch squares. You don't have to be perfect--this is messy pie, remember!
Lay out your dough pieces on the apples kind of like a patchwork crazy quilt, leaving a few openings for steam. I like to sprinkle the top with sugar for a sparkling appearance.
We served this dessert on Thanksgiving day. This is Miss Emma, Julia's 99 year-old Grandma eating Apple Pandowdy! Miss Emma said it was wonderful! By the way, did you know there is a song about this dish? Ben was singing it at Thanksgiving, "Shoo-fly Pie and Apple Pandowdy". I looked it up, and there is such a song sung by Dina Shore! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HBDnpu5Bl4

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