Apple Pudding

When Melissa and her family arrived in Munsonville, they stopped for lunch at Sue’s Diner on Main Street, a dingy, squat-looking gray building with surprisingly good food, especially the apple pudding.

This recipe was first published in the Bohemian-American Cookbook by Marie Rosicky, published by the Automatic Printing Company www.autoprintomaha.com). It is used with permission.

Apple Pudding

Butter

Bread crumbs

Sliced apples

Sugar

Blanched almonds

4 eggs

1 cup sugar

2 ½ cups flour

Vanilla flavoring or lemon flavoring, to taste

Butter a baking dish and sprinkle with bread crumbs, then cover with sliced apples, sprinkle these with sugar and chopped blanched almonds, then add another layer of apples and proceed thus until the dish is ½ full. Beat the eggs with sugar by hand for 30 minutes. Then fold in carefully the flour, adding vanilla or lemon flavoring to taste, and pour over the apples. Bake slowly for 1 hour.

 From "Memories in the Kitchen: Bites and Nibbles From 'Bryony'"

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