I started searching for perfect apples early in the morning. Shoofly pie and apple pan dowdy is a popular song about pennsylvania dutch cooking, with music by guy wood and words by sammy gallop. Featured texts all books all texts latest this just in smithsonian libraries fedlink us genealogy lincoln collection. Search the history of over 431 billion web pages on the internet. You can choose to use either real maple syrup or molasses to sweeten the apples. This version is a cobblerlike dessert made with biscuit mix, brown sugar, and spices. Bussey, edited by kent whealy, and published by jak kaw press, llc. One of many oldschool new england desserts with funny names slumps, grunts, etc. James madison loved ice cream and was spoiled by his wife. Bourbon apple pandowdy in an iron skillet restless chipotle. Click here to see a large picture of the dutch cooking recipe book. Jan 10, 2018 shoo fly pie is a vintage molasses pie recipe that is absolutely delicious.
A grunt is a cobbler cooked on top of the stove and a slump is fruit and biscuit dumplings which is turned upside down after being baked so that the fruit is slumped into the fruit with a fork. Sep 12, 2012 as a salute to our local heritage, wed like to share a recipe that calls for apples and was a favorite of our countys namesake, john adams. Sometimes someone took the time to write out an entire collection of recipes. Apple pandowdy is an american classic thats big on flavor. Shoofly pie and apple pan dowdy is a song about pennsylvania dutch cooking, with music by guy wood and words by sammy gallop. A variation on angel food cake from one great cookbook. Aug 01, 20 shoofly pie and apple pan dowdy stan kenton ft. Apple pandowdy is a maple flavored or molasses deep dish apple desert. Could it be that pandowdy is the ancestral dish to our more contemporary cobbler. History of shoofly pie, treacle tart, whats cooking america. The earliest reference to apple crisp in print occurs in 1924, with a recipe in the everybodys cook book. In a bowl, combine baking powder and remaining flour and. Oddly enough, over the years this type of messed up appearance has come more often to be applied to people than to desert.
My recipe is a traditional lemon yellow cake baked atop sliced apples. Cupcake ipsum dolor sit amet chocolate bar halvah carrot cake donut. Its a simple, old fashioned dessert that will have you smiling over every sweet bite. Undoubtedly related to crumbles, slumps, and crisps, the recipe i decided to feature in my edible queens article comes from a cookbook published at the same time as the 1964 worlds fair, the american heritage cookbook. These posts will be titled cooking the new deal because im not very creative. Great recipe for apple pandowdy mold from good housekeepings book of menus, recipes and household discoveries1922. Shrimp bisque from new orleans cook book, 1940, lena richard. In a large bowl, toss together apples, lemon juice, brown sugar, flour, and spices. Johnson not only opens a powerful and heartwrenching door into judahs life, but also into belle groves kitchen where judah served as head cook from 18171836. What is the origin of the dish apple pandowdy answers. Halvah apple pie apple pie brownie donut cheesecake. Start your 14day free trial to access this video now. They wrote frequently while john adams stayed in philadelphia during the.
This book traces the history and lore of the fruit in the keystone state, goes into the orchards and records the oral history of the descendants of apple growers, discusses the states apple varieties, explores the industry as it thrives today, and ends in the kitchen with tips on storage and recipes for delicious apple entrees and desserts. The origins of apple pan dowdy are shrouded in mystery. After 30 years of research and seven years of editing, copies are finally available of the illustrated history of apples in the united states and canada by daniel j. Oldfashioned apple pandowdy recipe yankee magazine. Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy library of congress. This is moms recipe, from the purity cookbook, for apple. Browse, buy, and download books from your favorite authors on apple books. This apple pandowdy, which comes from a very old cookbook, is tangy and delicious.
Martha stewarts version of apple pandowdy, which is more like an apple pie, with squares of piecrust on top, and then there is the taste of home version, and thats. Peel, quarter, and core apples, then cut into 12inchthick wedges. Dec 30, 2012 the little green apples in the back yard were indeed tiny by todays standards but if i filled my lard bucket with them, there would be just enough for apple pan dowdy. Oldfashioned apple pan dowdy recipe the spruce eats. After 20 minutes, using the back of a large wooden spoon, press the buttery squares back into the simmering apples so they can soak up the juices. Oct 07, 2017 dinah shore shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy.
Apple pan dowdy the real one features apples covered with a short dough think pie crust that isdowdied up by putting the dough on top in pieces. I believe from the book of mormon musical on the 65th tony awards. Apple pan dowdy from james beards american cookery, 1972. If you want to learn more about apple pan dowdy history, this is a great article on americana apple recipes when i was looking for an old fashioned apple pan dowdy recipe that i could bake, i found a couple of variations. However, the first time ive been able to find the dessert in print is in miss corsons practical american cookery. Lately a new generation has been introduced to the catchy tune. The name refers to the act of dowdying the crust that is, breaking it up with a knife and pressing it into the bubbling juices midway through baking. Heres page 1, and pages 2 and 3 have the history of pennsylvania dutch cooking.
Traditionally the desert is dowdied before servingthat is the crust is broken up with a spoon or knife and stirred into the apple filling. Good oldfashioned home cooking is the keynote of this treasury of classic new england cuisine. Despite the title, this is not apple pan dowdy, but instead an apple upside down cake. Dump out the liquid in the bottom of the pan once the apples are done cooking. Apple pan dowdy or pandowdy is a traditional american dish which saw its heyday in the 1800s and early 1900s. The recipe is from the book capitol hill cooks, which is available at the hall of presidents.
Shoofly pie and apple pan dowdy guy wood and sammy gallop on. Apple pan dowdy archives gettysburg battlefield tours. Brownie muffin pastry cupcake cake dessert chocolate cake. Jul 03, 2018 john adams wife, abigail, regularly baked apple pan dowdy, a piemeetscobbler hybrid that was popular in new england in the early 1800s. Serve it warm with ice cream or a drizzling of heavy cream. Say byebye to pie for now and howdy to apple pandowdy. In a saucepan, combine brown sugar, 14 cup flour and 14 teaspoon salt. Apple pandowdy recipe found in a recipe book from 1933 in the illinois history and lincoln collections at the university of illinois at urbanachampaign library. Shoo fly pie is a vintage molasses pie recipe that is absolutely delicious. Apple books features more than two million biographies, mysteries, comedies, classics, textbooks, and so much more. Ingredient quantities have been added for baking convenience. It was ed in 1978, and has cute illustrations by howard imhoff, throughout the book.
There are two things you should probably know off the bat. Place the skillet back into the 375 degree oven for another 1824 minutes, or until the crust is well browned. Their letters provide a remarkable window on early american history. Apple pan dowdy adapted from american heritage cookbook, 1964 and miss corsons practical american cookery by juliet corson, 1886.
Oldfashioned apple pandowdy an oldfashioned favorite, the pandowdy is, by definition, a cooked fruit dessert sweetened with maple syrup or molasses and topped with a pie pastry. The song is frequently mentioned in john updikes 1988 novel rabbit at rest. It is common in our language for an individual to be. Books on the history, cultivation, and uses of apples and other tree fruit score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. In a large bowl, toss together apples, lemon juice, brown. Pandowdies and brown bettys were originally created as a way to use up old bread. Dinah shore shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy youtube. A combination pie and pudding, the name comes from the method in which the recipe is completed. The first one im going to try, right now, is from the section titled the northeast eats in the subsection vermont foods and it is an apple pan dowdy recipe submitted by cora a. Published on july 2, 2010 in apples, desserts and history dish mondays. Davidson, in his book the oxford companion to food. Apple books is the single destination for all the books you love, and the ones youre about to.
Book printed material shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy. It is notably absent from the first edition of the fannie farmer cookbook 1896, which is a comprehensive collection of american recipes. Jan 20, 2015 a generous portion of abigail adams apple pan dowdy made with their favorite apple newtown pippin will be on the dessert table. Nov 25, 20 apple pandowdy adapted from eleanor earlys the new england cookbook 4 cups apples, peeled, cored, and sliced about 45 apples. This apple pandowdy recipe from the awardwinning the apple lovers cookbook by amy traverso w. I use granny smith for my apple pies 12 cup sugar 12 tsp. The page is faded on the right, that was done when they printed it unfortunately. Chocolate cookies from janelouises cook book, 1930, louise bell price, first edition, first printing. Aug 05, 2019 send judah first apple pan dowdy recipe 6 min read in send judah first, author brian c. Apple pan dowdy from james beards american cookery, 1972 chocolate cookies from janelouises cook book, 1930, louise bell price, first edition, first printing shrimp bisque from new orleans cook book, 1940, lena richard. Cook butter in a small saucepan over medium, swirling often, until bubbling and golden, about 5 minutes. Replace the 12 cup milk with an egg, a tsp vanilla extract and 12 cup water. Since the historical recipe included in the book didnt have exact.
Pandowdy definition is a deepdish spiced apple dessert sweetened with sugar, molasses, or maple syrup and covered with a rich crust. Cookbook by harriet tilden brainard moody, a fascinating figure in chicago history. Browse the book store, join oprahs new book club, keep track of what youve read and want to read, and listen to enthralling audiobooks. Pennsylvania dutch cooking is indigenous to those areas of southeastern pennsylvania that were settled by the mennonites and amish. Today, were sharing one of the authors favorite recipes. The biggest hit versions of the song were recorded by dinah shore and by the stan kenton orchestra with june christy. The combination of valentines day and presidents day makes this a perfect time to prepare one of the oldest and greatest of all american desserts apple pan dowdy. As a salute to our local heritage, wed like to share a recipe that calls for apples and was a favorite of our countys namesake, john adams. An apple pandowdy is usually made with pieces of pie dough as the topping. In americas early history, this made sense processed, refined sugar was.
The martha stewart of her day, cookbook author eliza leslie, wrote in her 1849 book miss leslie s complete cookery that the dish was called brown betty in the south and pandowdy in the north. Add about a cup of flour more than what the recipe calls for. Apple pandowdy recipe found in a recipe book from 1933 in the illinois history and lincoln collections at the university of illinois at. Arrange dough squares in a patchwork design over apples, overlapping. Chewing on history with famous folks and their fabulous foods tilbury house, 2016, author abigail ewing zelz and illustrator eric zelz shine the spotlight on 16 cool movers and shakers through the ever tempting lens. Pandowdy pan dowdy is perfect for those of us that have trouble with pie crust theres no bottom crust and the top is made up of squares of pastry. Apple pan dowdy most commonly features a pie crust, which is broken dowdied before serving. What do napoleon, cleopatra, george washington, gandhi, queen victoria, columbus, neil armstrong. Shoo fly pie and apple pandowdy, the song by dinah shore was one of the best selling records of 1946. Apple pandowdy an early colonial desert pie from the penn.
Apple pandowdy mold from good housekeepings book of menus. The exact origin of the name pandowdy is not known, but believed to be from making it in a pan, and its rather dowdy appearance. Included are over 300 wholesome, easytoprepare recipes including nantucket scallop chowder, chicken pot pie, boston baked beans, connecticut stuffed baked salad, apple pan dowdy, rhode island johnnycake, mincemeat pie, parker house rolls, boston cream pie, lobster five ways boiled, baked, broiled. Lately a new generation has been introduced to the catchy tune due to its use in a popular automobile commercial. William penn 16441718, founder of pennsylvania, was seeking colonists for the pennsylvania area.