Recipe

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• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 cup vegetable shortening
• 1/2 cup whole milk
• 6 large apples, washed,peeled and sliced , save peelings (a softer apple like macintosh rather than granny smith is better. use your own judgement.)
• 1/4 butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg

• 1 Place peelings in a small sauce pan w/ enough water to cover.
• 2 Cook until soft.
• 3 Drain and reserve apple liquid (2 c).
• 4 Throw peelings away.
• 5 (You may use 2c unsweetened apple juice instead).
• 6 Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• 7 Mix first five ingredients to make a crust.
• 8 Roll out and cut into tarts.
• 9 Place apple slices on tarts and bring edges up to meet each other.
• 10 Press to seal.
• 11 Place in shallow baking dish.
• 12 Syrup.
• 13 Combine apple liquid w/ butter.
• 14 sugar and spice.
• 15 Boil hard 3-4 minutes.
• 16 Pour half of syrup over apple dumplings.
• 17 Bake for 12 minutes or so until starting to brown.
• 18 Pour rest of syrup over dumplings.
• 19 Reduce heat and cook until apples are soft and done.
• 20 Serve w/ heavy cream or ice cream.