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Baked Apple Dumplings

A sweet dish of biscuit dough dumplings filled with apples, baked in a sugar‑water‑butter sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Baked Apple Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the dumplings

  1. Make a rich biscuit dough.

  2. Roll out the dough thin.

  3. Cut into squares.

  4. Fill with pared and quartered apples.

  5. Fold over the edges.

Make the sauce and bake

  1. Put 1 cup sugar, 1 pint water, butter the size of an egg, and a little grated nutmeg into a pan on the stove.

  2. When boiling, drop in the dumplings.

  3. Set in the oven and bake 1 hour.

  4. If it should boil away too fast, add more boiling water.

Serve

  1. Serve in the sauce in the pan.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

229Calories
6 gProtein
17 gFat
13 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Apples (in the method)
Provide the filling that softens and turns sweet-tart as the dumplings bake.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the sauce and dough, giving a rounder flavor.
Sugar
Sweetens the syrupy sauce that the dumplings bake in.

The step that matters

Keep the sauce at a steady boil. If the sauce boils away too fast, the dumplings can dry out and the sauce thickens unevenly. Adding more boiling water keeps the liquid level steady so the dumplings cook through in syrup.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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