Bumbleberry Crisp and Applesauce Cake Recipes for Bramble Farm Apples

 

  Starwood Quilter's Bumbleberry Crisp

Fruit:
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla
5 cups of fruit (rhubarb, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, peeled apples)cut into 1-inch cubes

Crisp: 1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cup flour
¾ cup oats
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup melted butter

1.  In a medium saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch.  Mix well and add water and vanilla.  Cook together until nicely thickened and bubbly.  Pour the sauce over the fruit and mix well.
2.  In mixing bowl, combine brown sugar, flour, oats, and cinnamon.  Drizzle melted butter over combination with fork until crumbly.
3.  Turn fruit into a 9 x 13-inch pan that has been sprayed with Pam.  Spread crisp mixture over fruit.  Bake for 45 to 55 minutes until topping is brown and crunchy and fruit mixture is bubbling through.

Serve hot with whipped cream or ice cream.     

  

Member Julie from Japan writes:  “This recipe is written in my mother's handwriting, saying it comes from ‘Gram.’  It is simple and basic and the cake I always request for my birthday if anyone asks. (My uncle had an apple orchard and the worst of the wind-falls went to applesauce).

Julie's Mother's Applesauce Cake    serves 5   9 x 2"   sent Nov. 1987

1 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 cup raisins
1/2 teaspoon each cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, sifted with
1-3/4 cup flour
1 cup applesauce
1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in 1/2 cup hot water

Bake in moderate oven (350) about 40 - 50 minutes depending upon thickness.  No topping necessary.

Birthday Cake Quilt Block

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In the book Alice's Tulips, Alice writes her sister Lizzie: "I boiled up a kettle of black walnut hulls the other day to make a dye, then colored a length of homespun, and will make a dress for Mother Bullock."  Have you ever used a natural dye to color anything?  (Easter eggs is one possibility!)  Inquiring minds want to know!  Respond in the comment section below.  If you're reading via email, click on the blog title to be able to comment and read others' comments. 
 

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