I made my own brown sugar for this by mixing full-flavoured molasses into cane sugar because I wanted a stronger flavour. If you haven't tried doing this before, add the molasses slowly until you get the strength you are comfortable with. We really like strong molasses, so over-doing it would take considerable effort. I used butter instead of the shortening called for in the recipe and I used coconut instead of chopped nuts for the topping.
The recipe comes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens, by Pellman and Good
You Will Need:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 1/4 cups AP flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
2 cups raw apples peeled and diced
Topping:
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup flaked coconut
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x13 pan
Beat the butter until it is smooth. Add the sugars and beat until light. beat in the eggs. Mix the flour and cinnamon together and mix the baking soda into the buttermilk. Add the ingredients alternating until well combined. Fold in the chopped apples.
Pour into pan and sprinkle with topping. Bake 45-50 minutes or until it tests done. It gets quite dark, so don't be fooled into thinking it is burnt-test it with a toothpick.
Cool in pan.
2 comments:
I just visited dad in Cali's Sonoma county, now wine country, but in previous generations apple orchards and many trees still stand. So I just brought home a few pounds of apples right off the tree. I'll be looking here for apple recipes, or I may just make many batches of apple crisp. Easy and delightfully sugary.
I just made a batch of apple juice which I intend to turn into a low-sugar type sorbet. Hopefully I can get the recipe up tonight, but it used 2 quarts of cut-up apples to extract 2 cups of juice. If you have that many apples, it might be worth trying.
If only I had a bottle of Calvados
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