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Hannah's Apple Bars
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
For Crust:
2 1/2 cups flour
1 cup shortening
1 Tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
Mix flour, shortening and sugar and salt as for pie crust.
Put 1 egg yolk in a measuring cup and fill to 2/3 full with milk.
Add to flour mixture and blend well. Roll out half of the dough to fit a cookie sheet or jelly roll pan.
Filling:
1 1/2-2 cups crushed corn flakes cereal.
8-9 Lake Ida Apples, cored, peeled and sliced.
Evenly sprinkle crushed cereal flakes over bottom crust. Spread sliced apples over the crushed cereal. Over all of the apples sprinkle 1 cup white sugar mixed with 2 tsp. cinnamon. Roll other half of dough to fit over top, and crimp edges as for pie. Beat egg white until stiff, and brush on top crust.
Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees F.
Frost warm bars with powdered sugar frosting. 1 cup powdered sugar and a little hot water (1 tsp more or less), and drizzle over top of bars. Cool completely before cutting. These freeze well.
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Amazin' Raisin Cake
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups white sugar
1 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup milk
2 eggs
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
3 cups apple - peeled, cored, and chopped
1 cup raisins
1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
2 cups heavy cream
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
Grease and flour two 9 inch pans.
In large bowl with mixer at low speed, beat together flour, sugar, mayonnaise, milk, eggs, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and cloves, scraping bowl frequently, for 2 minutes. Batter will be thick. Sir in the chopped apples, raisins and walnuts.
Spread batter into prepared pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove and cool on wire racks.
In a large bowl, whip the cream and confectioners' sugar until stiff peaks form. Fill and frost the cake.
Lake Ida Apple Farm
Rick & Sharon Julian
11545 West Lake Ida Lane
Lake Park, Minnesota 56554
218-532-3025