I got this gem in a box I won from eBay for a few dollars. It is from 1972 and has half songs, half recipes. Some are intended for campfires, but I was really wondering about this recipe:
Roley Poley Puddin'
Peel, core and slice apples (any kind of fruit, fresh or dried may be used) (Thankfully, they didn't mention prunes.) Make a rich biscuit dough, roll about 1/2 inch thick, lay apple slices on dough. Roll up, tuck in ends and prick deeply with fork, lay in a steamer and steam hard for 1 3/4 hours. Or wrap it in a cloth well floured, tying ends and basing up sides. Plunge into boiling water and boil continually for 1 1/2 hours.
That sounds really gross. Anyone want to try this one or have done something like it?
I'm going back to try and finish Molly's puzzle. That was hard, even when I was listed as part of a few clues!
4 comments:
I'm sticking to eating fresh apples! Of course for those of us whose teeth don't work well, there's always applesauce. My mother used to bake an excellent brown Betty. Baking is a great way to bring out the natural sweetness in apples--of course, a little brown sugar with cinnamon doesn't hurt either.
Lordy, this sounded like fun (recipes and songs) until I read the recipe - boiled dough?! Yuck! Unless, I guess, it's dumplings, then yum. But an hour and a half? Lots of things were bad ideas in the '70s.
Lordy, this sounded like fun (recipes and songs) until I read the recipe - boiled dough?! Yuck! Unless, I guess, it's dumplings, then yum. But an hour and a half? Lots of things were bad ideas in the '70s.
This sounds like the recipe in The Tale of Samuel Whiskers by Beatrix Potter, originally published as The Roly-Poly Pudding (1908). In it two Rats, Samuel Whiskers and his wife Anna Maria, find Tom Kitten in their attic and try to make him into a roly-poly pudding. Bad rats! Horrible-sounding recipe!
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