Feast in a Flash Falls Flat

This must be why a lot of "new" time saving recipes don't appeal to me: "Caramel Apple Burritos" for dessert. (p. 11, Quick Cooking Annual, 2002) You need 3 large tart apples, peeled and sliced, 10 caramels, and 5 flour tortillas, warmed. You peel and slice the apples, cook them, add the caramels and put that on the warmed tortilla, rebaptize it a burrito, fold and serve. Call me crazy, but a burrito instead of a wonderful flaky pie crust drooling and oozing apple juices smelling of cinnamon and nutmeg? With a dollup of ice cream or whipping cream? Thanks, but no thanks.

You make a delicious apple dumpling the same way you make a delicious apple pie--my Mom could make these blind folded.

A terrific crust (2 cups of flour, 2/3 cup of shortening, 1 teaspoon of salt, 5-6 tablespoons of water, lightly mixed and rolled out) cut into squares, a little thicker than if going into a pie tin

a halved or quartered, peeled apple on each square

covered with a bit of sugar/flour/cinnamon mix

bring up the edges of the square and seal in the middle

brush it up with a bit of milk to make it brown

bake at 425 for 15 minutes and reduce the temp to 350 for 30-40 minutes

get to work on the rest of the meal while it bakes, and call one of the girls in to set the table.

At our house they were served warm in a bowl with milk on top. (About the same number of calories, but a heaven's width difference in taste and tactile satisfaction.)

Although I've lots of memories of Mother with her rolling pin, I have no photos. This one was taken about 25 years ago when we lived on Abington Road. Friday Family Photo.