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Vintage Recipe Note

The Johnson Sunday Table

A family recipe is history you can taste and heritage you can share.

Desserts

Mom-Mom’s Apple Dumplings 

Ingredients:

Syrup:

2 cups brown sugar

2 cups water

1/4 cup butter or margarine 

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 

 

Dough:

3 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup shortening

1/2 cup milk

 

6 medium golden delicious apples

Cinnamon sugar

Plate Of Dumplings

DIRECTIONS:

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• Peel apples, core, cut in half, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and set aside. • Heat the first four syrup ingredients. Cooking for 5 mins until it comes to a boil. • Mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Then mix in shortening until flour looks like small peas. Then add milk and mix long enough to form a ball. (If it sticks add a little more flour). • Preheat oven at 375 degrees • Roll dough flat, wrap dough around two halves (shape of an apple), sprinkle cinnamon sugar inside and outside the dough. • Pour syrup over apples, cook for 25 mins until brown.

Desserts

Aunt Millie's Jello Mold

Ingredients:

3 oz Orange Jello 

1-2 sticks of 8ox cream cheese

One 20oz can of crushed pineapples

One 15oz can of mandarin oranges 

One small bag of walnuts

1.5 containers of cool whip

Orange jello

DIRECTIONS:

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• Drain pineapples and cream cheese to a medium size pot. Cook on low-medium heat. • Stir in jello powder until completely dissolved. • Remove from heat. Add half of the oranges and a handful of crushed walnuts • When jello mix is completely cool add remaining oranges and nuts (as needed) • Then fold in cool whip. (Note: the mix must be absolutely cool before the cool whip is added) • Add to a decorative bowl and place in fridge for at least 6 hours.

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