| Favorite Recipes from the Orchard
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If you enjoy these recipes, you'll love our Lawrence Orchards' Friends and Family Cookbook. It's available at our farm market and also our virtual online farm market.
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Country Picnic Apple Bread-N-Butter
Applefest 2008 winning dessert recipe
Holly Taus
Apple Bread Ingredients:
2 cups chopped apples 3 cups flour
3 eggs 1 tsp salt
1 cup oil 1 tsp soda
2 cups sugar 3 tsp cinnamon
3 tsp vanilla
Mix first 5 ingred, then mix last 4 ingred. Combine both mixtures. Stir well and pour into 2 floured loaf pans. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour. Turn out of pans.
Apple Butter Ingredients:
14 sweet/tart apples
2 cups fresh cider
4 cups sugar
4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
Lightly oil large crockpot. Wash, core, and quarter apples. *Do not peel* Put in crockpot. Stir in cider. Cover and cook on low 5 hours. Remove skin. Add other ingredients. Simmer and stir 2 hours then can.
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| Holly Taus, 2008 Applefest Apple Dessert Winner |
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Shayla's Apple Crumb Pie
Applefest 2008 winning pie recipe - Shayla Thomas (age 9)
Pie Crust Ingredients
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 1/2 T. water
Mix first 3 ingredients together until crumbly. Add water and stir with fork until mixed. Roll out and put in pie dish.
Pie Filling Ingredients:
4-5 baking apples
1 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
3/4 cup flour
1/3 cup butter
Pare apples. Cut into eights and arrange in pastry lined pie dish. Sprinkle apples with 1/2 cup sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon mixed. Mix 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup sugar, and 1/3 cup butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over apples. Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes. Then lower oven to 350 degrees and bake for another 45 minutes until tender and bubbling.
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| Shayla Thomas 2008 Applefest Apple Pie Contest Winner |
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George’s Favorite” Apple Pie
A great traditional pie which was shared by George on the Fox Channel 28 Morning Show
Ingredients:
¾ cup sugar
¼ cup flour
½ tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
dash salt
6 cups sliced, pared apples
Peel, slice, and core apples.
Combine spices, sugar, and flour with apples.
Mound mixture in pastry lined plate.
Cover with the following crumb topping:
Mix 1 cup flour
½ cup firm butter
½ cup packed brown sugar until crumbly.
Bake 50 minutes at 400 degrees.
Cover topping with foil during the last 20 minutes of baking.
Best served warm with ice cream at the side.
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| George Lawrence, chief cook and bottlewasher |
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Sue’s Apple Pie
Applefest 2007 winning pie recipe from Sue McGrady
Ingredients:
6 cup thinly sliced and peeled apples
1 cup sugar
2 tbsp flour
1 tsp cinnamon
dash nutmeg
dash cloves
1 tbsp butter
Combine sugar, flour, and spices. Toss with apples.
Fill a pastry lined pie plate (below) with apple mixture. Dot with butter.
Adjust top crust, flute, and seal.
Bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.
Pie crust
2 cup flour
1 tsp salt
2/3 cup shortening
5-6 tbsp cold water
Combine flour and salt. Cut in shortening.
Toss in cold water, fluffing while you go.
Gather in a ball. Cover and let rest.
Divide and roll out.
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| Sue McGrady - 2007 Applefest Grand Prize Pie Winner |
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Company’s Coming Quick Apple Dessert
Applefest 2007 winning dessert recipe from Tanya Baughman
Ingredients:
5 cup thinly sliced apples
1/3 cup sugar
2 tbsp flour
1 tbsp mulling spice
1 tbsp cinnamon
Mix all ingredients. Pour into a baking dish. Best if dish is buttered.
Crust: 1 yellow cake mix
1 stick butter
Cut butter into cake mix.
Cover apple with mixture.
Sprinkle with cinnamon.
Bake 45 minutes at 375 degrees.
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| Tanya Baughman - 2007 Applefest Grand Prize Apple Dessert Winner |
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APPLE SCHNITZ PIE
An Amish Original
Pastry for a TWO-CRUST, 9-inch pie
3/4 pound dried schnitz
1 quart water
Juice and rind of 1 orange
1 teaspoons cinnamon
2 cups sugar
Put the schnitz and the water into a saucepan and cook to a soft pulp. Add cinnamon, sugar, orange juice and rind, blend well. Stand aside to cool. Fill the pie shell with the mixture and cover with top crust—making vents for steam. Bake in a 450 Degree F. oven for 10 minutes, then at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
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