Name: Apple Dumplings
Ingredients: good-sized baking apples; pastry dough

Apple Dumplings

Ingredients

good-sized baking apples
pastry dough

Directions

Peel the baking apples.
Roll out the pastry dough and divide it into pieces equal to the number of apples.
Cut two rounds from each piece of dough.
Place an apple on each piece of dough and cover with the other round.
Seal the edges tightly and tie them in cloths.
Boil the dumplings until cooked through.

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.