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Here are a few of our favorite recipies from our visitors. Just email your favorite recipe to us. If your recipe is selected, you’ll receive a gift certificate for use at our Apple Barn.

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Apple Brown Betty with Vanilla Cream

This recipe is different if you’re from the East or the South. This is how we love it here at the Orchard…partly because it’s easy, but mostly because of its decadent comfort qualities.

Ingredients:

• One dozen apples ~ cored, thickly sliced, peeled if you like
• ½ C rolled oats
• 1 C flour
• ¾ C packed brown sugar
• 1 ½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp ground clove
• ½ C (one stick) cold butter, cut into chunks
• Grated rind from one orange
• 1 T lemon juice
• ¼ C hot water
• 1 pint whipping cream
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 T sugar

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. In a bowl, mix oats, flour, brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, and clove. Add butter and, with clean hands, cut in with your fingers until the mixture is crumbly and well distributed.
3. Lightly butter a 9x13 pan. Add ½ of the apple slices and sprinkle with ½ of the orange rind. Sprinkle the apples with one handful of crumble. Repeat with the other half of the apples and orange rind, then sprinkle the rest of the crumble on top.
4. Mix the hot water and lemon juice. Evenly distribute this over the crumble topping.
5. Bake for 60 minutes.
6. Beat the cream in a chilled bowl until soft peaks form. With a spatula, fold in the vanilla extract and sugar.

Serve the Brown Betty warm with a giant spoonful of Vanilla Cream on top.

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The Best Apple Pie Ever

You are welcome to disagree, but really, shouldn’t everyone believe their pie recipe is the best? The no-roll crust is one my mom and grandma always made. It’s foolproof, functional, and

Ingredients:

• 1 unbaked pie crust
• filling:
• 1 C sugar
• 1/3 C flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp allspice
• ¼ tsp salt
• 8 C sliced, peeled, and cored apples ~ use a variety for a better pie
• topping:
• ½ C sugar
• ½ C flour
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp ginger
• ? tsp mace
• ¼ C butter

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Mix the filling ingredients and pour into pie crust.
3. Make the topping. Blend the sugar, flour, cinnamon, ginger, and mace. Cut in the butter with clean fingers until the mixture is a pea-sized crumble. Sprinkle on top of the apple filling.
4. Wrap foil over the edge of the crust and bake for 50 – 60 minutes, removing the foil after the first 20 minutes.

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Mom's Pie Crust

Sift into pie tin:

• 1 ½ C flour
• 1 ½ tsp. sugar
• ½ tsp. salt

Mix with a fork in a separate container:

• ½ C veg. oil
• 2T milk

Directions:

1. Make a well in the flour mixture in the pie tin and pour in the liquid. Mix well with the fork.
2. Press into pie tin with fingers, and flute the edge.
3. For pre-bakes: prick with fork, 425º 12-15 minutes.

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Pumpkin Biscuits

These biscuits are easy, full of vitamins, and great anytime. We almost never make the plain ole’ white ones anymore.

Ingredients:

• 2 ½ C flour
• 3 T brown sugar
• 1 T baking powder
• ½ salt
• ¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
• ¼ tsp cinnamon
• ¼ tsp ground ginger
• ½ C unsalted butter ~ chilled and coarsely chopped
• 1 ½ C pumpkin puree

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. In a bowl, mix flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger.
3. With clean hands, use your fingers to work in the chilled butter until the mixture resembles cornmeal.
4. Gently stir in the pumpkin.
5. On a floured surface, with floured hands, pat out the dough to ½ inch thick. Use a pizza cutter to cut into 2 inch square biscuits, and place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
6. Bake 15 – 20 minutes.

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Apple Dumplings

Ingredients:

• 2 apples – cut into 16 slices
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 cans crescent rolls
• 12 oz can Mountain Dew
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 sticks butter

Directions:

1. Melt butter, then add cinnamon and sugar.
2. Roll up apple slices in crescent rolls and place bundles in single layer in a 9 x 12 pan
3. Pour butter, cinnamon and sugar mixture over dumplings. Then pour can of Mountain Dew over all.
4. Bake at 350 degrees uncovered for 45 minutes.