Apple Dumplings Boiled In Water Food

APPLE DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Peel, core and slice the apples vertically into 8 slices each. Squeeze the lemon into a bowl of water and add the apple slices to keep from turning brown. In a medium saucepan, mix 1 cup water, 3/4 cup of the sugar, the butter and vanilla. Bring the sugar mixture to a boil over medium heat. Separate each biscuit into 2 layers. Wrap a biscuit layer around a slice of apple, stretching the biscuit slightly to overlap, and seal on the bottom. Place the wrapped slices, sealed-side down, in a 9- by 12- by 2-inch casserole dish. Pour the hot sugar mixture over the apple slices. Mix the remaining 1/4 cup sugar with the cinnamon and sprinkle the mixture over the tops of the wrapped apples. Bake until golden brown, 35 minutes.

OLD-FASHIONED APPLE DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Butter a 9x13 inch pan.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll pastry into a large rectangle, about 24 by 16 inches. Cut into 6 square pieces. Place an apple on each pastry square with the cored opening facing upward. Cut butter into 8 pieces. Place 1 piece of butter in the opening of each apple; reserve remaining butter for sauce. Divide brown sugar between apples, poking some inside each cored opening and the rest around the base of each apple. Sprinkle cinnamon and nutmeg over the apples.
• With slightly wet fingertips, bring one corner of pastry square up to the top of the apple, then bring the opposite corner to the top and press together. Bring up the two remaining corners, and seal. Slightly pinch the dough at the sides to completely seal in the apple. Repeat with the remaining apples. Place in prepared baking dish.
• In a saucepan, combine water, white sugar, vanilla extract and reserved butter. Place over medium heat, and bring to a boil in a large saucepan. Boil for 5 minutes, or until sugar is dissolved. Carefully pour over dumplings.
• Bake in preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes. Place each apple dumpling in a dessert bowl, and spoon some sauce over the top.

AMISH BOILED APPLE DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, combine the flour, 1/2 cup apple juice and cinnamon, stirring until smooth.
• Stir in diced apples.
• Pour all the apple juice into a 4-quart pot with a tight fitting lid.
• Bring to a boil over medium heat.
• Drop diced apple mixture by soup-spoonsful into the boiling juice.
• Cover and let boil 20 minutes.
• Do not remove lid during cooking.
• After 20 minutes, remove the dumplings from the pan; set aside.
• Stir the cornstarch into the remaining apple juice in the pot and cook until thickened.
• Serve the sauce over the dumplings.

GRANDMA'S APPLE DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Creating the pie dough:.
• Blend flour, salt, and shortening together using a pastry cutter until the mixture is about the texture of corn meal.
• Add 1/2 cup of ice cold water and mix the dough (I find using my hands for this is easiest). If dough is too dry, add a bit more water but sparingly.
• Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut into eight squares.
• Filling the dumplings:.
• Place one apple on a square of pie dough. Fill the apple with sugar, sprinkle with cinnamon, and dot with butter.
• Bring corners of pie dough to top of apple and pinch shut.
• Place finished dumplings in a 9x13 greased pan.
• Syrup:.
• Bring to boil sugar, water, and butter in a sauce pan. Boil for two minutes.
• Pour syrup mixture around the dumplings.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 40 minutes or until golden brown. Baste the dumplings with the syrup from the pan every 5 to 7 minutes.

NANA'S APPLE DUMPLINGS WITH NUTMEG MILK

Steps:

• Mix syrup; boil 5 minutes. Remove from heat and add butter.
• Sift dry ingredients and cut in shortening until coarse crumbs. Add milk, all at once and stir until just moistened. Divide into 6 pieces and roll to 1/4" circle, each.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Place a cored apple on each circle. Fill core with cinnamon sugar mix. Place pat of butter on top. Fold pastry up over apple and pinch to seal. Place in 9 x 13 pan 1" apart.
• Pour syrup over dumplings and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
• Bake at 375 for 35-40 minutes.