This section is from the book "Lowney's Cook Book", by Maria Willett Howard. Also available from Amazon: Lowney's Cook Book.
2 cups flour.
2 tablespoons lard.
2 tablespoons butter.
½ teaspoon baking powder.
1 teaspoon salt ¼ cup sugar ¼ cup water 8 apples cored cinnamon and nutmeg.
Sift flour, baking powder and salt; work in lard and butter; when well mixed, add water. Cut paste in eight rounds, place apple in center of round, fill cavity with sugar and flavoring. Draw paste around apple; place in baking pan rough side down. Bake forty-five minutes. Serve with Lemon or Molasses Sauce.
¼ cup sugar ¼ cup milk 2 eggs.
1 cup flour.
2 teaspoons baking powder 5 sliced apples.
½ teaspoon salt.
Beat eggs; add sugar, flour in which baking powder has been sifted, and milk. Beat well; add apples; pour into buttered baking dish and bake in a moderate oven one hour. Serve with Italian Sauce.
Remove the core from eight apples of uniform size. Place in baking dish, add one fourth cup water, and baste frequently, during baking, with sugar and water.
Core eight apples, arrange in baking dish, fill cavities with butter and sugar, bake until tender, basting with sugar and water. When done, arrange in serving dish; sprinkle with granulated sugar.
8 apples 2 cups sugar 1 cup water.
Raspberry jam.
Rum or brandy.
1 cup beaten cream.
Pare and core the apples; boil sugar and water together ten minutes; arrange apples in buttered baking dish two inches apart; add sirup; cover and bake until apples are tender. Be careful to preserve shape of apples.
Remove from dish; boil sirup until thick; fill cavities with jam, pour sirup around them, and just before sending to table pour over them brandy or rum. Light and serve.
8 apples (red) 2 cups sugar 1 cup water 1 cup cream.
2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 tablespoons orange juice grated rind one half lemon grated rind one half orange.
Wipe apples; arrange in baking dish; add sugar and water, and cook until tender, turning so that all sides may be evenly cooked. Be sure and preserve the shape.
Remove skin in a way to leave bright coloring on the apple.
Boil sirup until thick, add fruit juice and rind, pour around apples, and garnish with beaten cream.
3 cups quartered apples 2 tablespoons butter ¾ cup sugar.
3 egg yolks.
6 egg whites nutmeg and lemon juice.
Steam apples; add butter, sugar, yolks of eggs and flavoring. Cool, cut and fold in beaten whites, turn into buttered pudding dish, and bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven. Serve with sugar and cream.
1 cup sugar.
½ teaspoon cinnamon.
2 tablespoons lemon juice grated rind of one lemon ½ cup butter.
1½ cup bread crumbs from center of loaf 4 cups sliced apples ¼ teaspoon salt ½ cup water.
Arrange crumbs and apples in layers, in a buttered pudding dish, having crumbs on the top layer. Sprinkle each layer with sugar and cinnamon and dot with butter; add lemon juice, lemon rind and water, just before sprinkling on the last layer. Bake in slow oven one hour.
 
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