It’s time for another Friday Food Favorite!
I just love old cook books. They just harbor so much charm and personality. My favorite are the good older church cookbooks where the ladies of the church work together to create a collection of recipes of their family favorites. You just know they hold tried and true recipes, many of which have been handed down from generation to generation.
Recently I wanted to make something special for my sweetie. He loves apple pie.
My grandmother and I had made him a special one that I gave him back when we were dating. Making that pie is one of the fondest memories I have of my grandmother.
She was a pie maker extraordinaire, but I didn’t have the time or the patience to make one of those this time. I needed something a bit simpler.
I dug out an old church cookbook from grandma’s church and searched for just the right recipe.
Grandma’s Apple Crisp
As I thumbed through the pages, my eyes fell onto a recipe for Apple Crisp. One of my aunts had submitted the recipe and had entitled it, “Mother’s Apple Crisp”. Well, if it was her mother’s recipe, then I knew it was my grandmother’s recipe and it would be delicious. I didn’t need to look any further.
Grandma’s apple crisp called for the following ingredients:
3 – 4 cups of apples
1 – 1 ½ cups of sugar
3 tablespoons of flour
1 cup brown sugar
1 ½ cups of flour
1 cup of oatmeal
1 cup of butter
1 tsp cinnamon
I began by slicing the apples into thin slices and placing them in a greased 8X8 pan.
Next I mixed together the 1 – 1 ½ cup of sugar and 3 tablespoons of flour.
Sprinkle the sugar over the sliced apples and mix.
Mix together the cup of brown sugar, 1 ½ cups of flour, the cup of oatmeal and the cup of butter.
Sprinkle the mixture over the apples and top with a teaspoon of cinnamon.
Bake at 350 – 375 degrees approximately 45 minutes until the crisp is browned and bubbly.
The smell of the warm apple crisp will have your mouth watering as it comes out of the oven – a wonderful fragrance for the fall season.
Serve with vanilla ice cream for a scrumptious dessert!
Thank you grandma!
- 3 - 4 C Apples
- 1 - 1½ C Sugar
- 3 T Flour
- 1 C Brown Sugar
- 1½ C Flour
- 1 C Oatmeal
- 1 C Butter
- 1 Tsp Cinnamon
- Slice apples into this slices and place into 8X* greased baking dish.
- Mix 1 - 1½ C sugar with 3 Tablespoons flour.
- Sprinkle sugar/flour mixture over and mix.
- Mix together brown sugar, flour, oatmeal and butter.
- Sprinkle over fruit.
- Top with 1 tsp of cinnamon
- Bake at 350 - 375 degrees about 40 minutes until brown and bubbly.
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I own and use that same cookbook!
Aren’t these recipes wonderful Jane? And no calories! Lol!
Debi
awww Love the picture Debi. I wasn’t sure which grandma you were talking about until I saw the picture. I’m afraid some daughters didn’t pick up her talents 🙂
What special memories we all had of grandma. We are all blessed to have had her in our lives.
Debi
This looks delicious! There is nothing like those church cookbooks for great recipes and lovely memories.
Peggy ~
I pull out the church cookbooks every time I am am looking for a recipe. There is nothing like the way they cook!
Debi
My dad, after eating a dessert at his residence nursing home, frequently says “I wish I had a piece of Dorothy’s pie”. Aunt Dorothy indeed was an outstanding pie maker as well as over all good cook. If Aunt Dorothy made it, you knew it would be very good! I enjoy your blog, Debi.
We all with we could have a piece of Grandma’s wonderful pies. And to have her sitting enjoying it with us. Aren’t we blessed to have those wonderful memories.
Thanks for stopping by Catherine.
Debi
We all with we could have a piece of Grandma’s wonderful pies. And to have her sitting enjoying it with us. Aren’t we blessed to have those wonderful memories.
Thanks for stopping by Catherine.
Debi
I have that cookbook and I know anything by Dorothy is going to be good!
It is filled with great recipes. I have many more of grandmas recipes to try.
Thanks for stopping by Deb!
Debi
You were not exaggerating about your grandma’s pie baking skills! I remember your mom sneaking in a coconut cream pie for us at McDonalds after much pestering by Sarah and me. Dorothy was an exceptional cook and taught her daughters well!
I remember mom sneaking those pies in to you guys. Hopefully a few of grandmas skills trickled down to some of the rest of us.
Debi