APPLE JACKS Recipe
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Ingredients: 15 oz dried apples 1 cup water
4 Tbsp butter, melted 2 cups sugar
2 tsp cinnamon 4 Tbsp lemon juice
vegetable oil
Pastry: 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp salt
2/3 cup shortening 5-6 Tbsp cold water
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Directions:Soak apples covered in water overnight. Drain and rinse well. Bring apples and 1 cup water to boil in large saucepan. Reduce heat and simmer 30 minutes or until tender. Cool. Stir in butter, sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice. Mash well.
Pastry: Add salt to flour. Cut in shortening. Sprinkle water over flour mixture. Mix with fork until moistened. Chill in refrigerator. Roll golf-ball size portions of pastry. Place 1 tablespoon apple mixture in one half of pastry circle. Fold over and seal edges. Fry in 1 inch hot oil at 375º and then drain well. This amount of pastry makes about 15 pies. |
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Notes: Lola "Mimi" Smith Banks was from a very hardworking family. She was an excellent cook and did not believe in cutting corners or taking shortcuts. Lola was famous for her Apple Jacks. She always dried her apples by pealing, slicing and drying on screens in the hot sun. She set the screens outside in the sunshine each morning and took them in each night. She learned that the apples could be dried in the car parked in the hot sunshine. "It only took one day and it made the car smell really good, you could hardly smell the dogs after that." When the apples were dried, she stored them in a cloth bag and hung them in the closet until she was ready to use them.
This is not Mimi's recipe. She probably did not need a recipe...but we expect that this is a good representation of her Apple Jacks that were loved by all.
"Mother packed some for us when Bruce McDonald and I was going on a hunting trip to Pender County. Bruce sampled one when we started out...he got very quiet and pretended he had something important on his mind. They were all gone before we got to Clayton. He had something on his mind all right...Mimi's Apple Jacks!
You could not visit the Banks home without being served something to eat. It was always a special treat to sample one of Mimi's Apple Jacks.
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