Well, Jacob knows his whole alphabet now, and is constantly doing ABCs on our fridge with our letter magnets. He lines them all up (not in the correct order), names them all then wants me to sing the song. He sings too. His new thing is to spell all of our names out. Today he put up "GATT" and said "that's mommy's name." I think I like it. Last week he spelled his own name...
Also... This week I was invited to a parishioner's house to pick apples. I got 1 big bag of eating apples and three big bags of baking apples. The next day I made nine jars of applesauce, one apple-rhubarb crisp, and one pan of apple bars. I had tasted some apple bars at church, they are so yummy, just like apple pie, and I was told they are easy. So I opened up my church cookbook, and sure enough I found the recipe. I wouldn't say they were the easiest thing ever, but they sure were tasty. The boys both love to eat the baking apples because they are small enough to fit in their hands. Daniel eats the whole entire apple, and i think Jacob ate four just today. Oh yea, and with all this baking/cooking/eating, I didn't even use up one whole bag of apples. But I did use up all my butter/margarine so now I have to wait until grocery day to do anything else with them. Though I have an interesting looking recipe for appe brownies that I think I will try.
Apple Bars
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Recipe By: Edberg Cookbook
Summary:
Says it freezes well, but they are too delicious and don't last long enough.
Ingredients:
2 handfulls corn flakes
1 egg, separated
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 cup margarine
1/3 cup milk
10 apples, small
1 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup icing sugar
2 tbsp water
1 tsp vanilla
Directions:
1. Dough: Sift flour and salt together. Mash margarine into flour. Add egg yolk and milk. Mix until it clings together. (Add a little more milk if needed.) Divide in half and roll out to fit bottom and sides of 12x17 cookie sheet.
2. Sprinkle dough with corn flakes.
3. Filling: Mix apples, sugar and cinnamon. Place on top of corn flakes.
4. Place top crust, sealing edges like apple pie. Brush with egg white.
5. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes. Remove from oven and glaze. Cool and cut into squares.
1 comment:
I am making these again but am making the following changes...
3/4 cup sugar instead of 1
Not brushing with the egg white, I didn't like the way it cooked
Halfing the glaze (mostly because I don't have enough icing sugar)
I will let you know how it goes... Oh and I used peaches instead of apples.
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