With Autumn just around the corner, it is time for the great
smells of fall treats! Pumpkin spice (everything), cinnamon smelling
candles, and the sweet treat of fresh apples!
Apples have always been a favorite of mine; caramel apples,
fresh picked apples, apple pie, apple cake, apple fritters, apple anything
really.
Over the Summer months I hit up the Battle Creek Farmers
Market on Wednesday afternoons! Shopping there I discovered an
incredible apple. Don’t ask me the name because I am not sure…It starts
with a ‘Z’ and I am pretty sure there is a ‘P’ involved with a couple ‘E’s….
not the point, bottom line I can’t spell it, but they are mouthwatering! The
apple is a cross of a ‘Pink Lady’ and a ‘Granny Smith’ (both my favorites).
When hanging out up north this summer, I brought along my grandmother’s
recipe for Apple Crisp along with a bunch of those special apples!
It has always been one of the yummiest deserts served in my
book and I tried my hand at it. Believe it or not it came out great and was
super easy. Thought I would share the recipe with you.
Straight from my Grandma Nan’s Kitchen – (she
gave me the recipe when I got married and it’s good)!
4 cups sliced apples
1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice (optional)
1/3 cup of Flour
1 cup of Oats (uncooked)
½ cup of Brown Sugar
1 tsp of cinnamon
½ tsp. of salt
1/3 cup of melted butter or margarine
Place apples in greased shallow baking dish.
Sprinkle with lemon juice.
Combine ingredients, add butter, mix until crumbly.
Sprinkle crumb mixture over apples
Bake at 375 for 30 minutes or until apples are
cooked and the top is browned and crisp.
My Grandmother noted…
“I do not add sugar to the apples, as we find the sweetness
in the topping to be sufficient. Also,
you can add the butter or margarine un-melted and mix with either your
fingers or a pastry blender until crumbly”.
You can use an 8×8 or a 9-inch pie pan (not too shallow).
Try it and let me know what you think. Oh, and if you don’t
like it, I will take whatever is left over!
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