Snow Dumplings, an Apple Delight

[donna]

It is apple time. This is an old recipe for making a delicious apple dessert.

Snow Dumplings
everal apples, pared and cored; pint of rice, short pie crust

 

[Eleanor Rose]

It is apple time. This is an old recipe for making a delicious apple dessert.

Snow Dumplings

Have several apples, pared and cored; wash a pint of rice, and roll the apples in it, so that rice will adhere; have ready a nice, short pie crust, wrap the apples in a piece of the dough, and roll the dumplings in rice again, and so on until you use up the apples. Put in a napkin in the steamer, place it over a pot of boiling water, and put in the dumplings; steam till done, eat with cream sauce.

Sounds delicious Donna!

 

[nitrofd]

It is apple time. This is an old recipe for making a delicious apple dessert.

Snow Dumplings

Have several apples, pared and cored; wash a pint of rice, and roll the apples in it, so that rice will adhere; have ready a nice, short pie crust, wrap the apples in a piece of the dough, and roll the dumplings in rice again, and so on until you use up the apples. Put in a napkin in the steamer, place it over a pot of boiling water, and put in the dumplings; steam till done, eat with cream sauce.

I am trying to understand this,apples rolled in rice....

 

[Eleanor Rose]

I am trying to understand this,apples rolled in rice....

This sounded a little different to me too my friend, but I trust any recipe @donna shares.

 

[nitrofd]

This sounded a little different to me too my friend, but I trust any recipe @donna shares.

I know what you mean.

 

[donna]

This recipe was in "Old Time Recipes To Enjoy", "The Kentucky Explorer Magazine", Sept. 2018. It is also in cookbook "Housekeeping In The Blue Grass" by Ladies of the Presbyterian Church, Paris, Ky.

 

[Shalom Hobbitess]

I am trying to understand this,apples rolled in rice....

I assumed the rice would absorb the apple juices and cook that way.

I was questioning the steamed pie crust, myself. Just does not sound right! But perhaps they don't mean a Chinese steamer, but some other kind that works more like an oven?

 

[diane]

Here is an illustrated recipe, about the same as Donna's. I found it easier to understand with pitchers!

https://worldturndupsidedown.blogspot.com/2016/02/civil-war-era-apple-snowballs-recipe.html

 

[mofederal]

This does sound pretty interesting. I would like to try it sometime. Thanks for posting it @donna.

 

[Shalom Hobbitess]

Here is an illustrated recipe, about the same as Donna's. I found it easier to understand with pitchers!

https://worldturndupsidedown.blogspot.com/2016/02/civil-war-era-apple-snowballs-recipe.html

This one makes a lot more sense to me, since you precook the rice and there's no pie crust. And I like the suggestion in the comments of using coconut milk!