Banana Apple Betty

Here is a recipe from 1967 to take care of the those sells on bananas besides eating them and making banana bread or pudding.

Banana Apple Betty

2 tart apples, pared and cored
3 firm bananas
3/4 cup sugar
3 Tablespoons butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 cups soft bread crumbs

Slice apples and cut bananas crosswise into 1/2 -inch pieces. Combine fruit, sugar, cinnamon and salt. Mix bread crumbs with butter. Place alternate layers of crumbs and fruit into well-buttered baking dish. Use crumbs on top and bottom layers. Cover and bake 40 minutes at 375 degrees. Uncover and continue baking 5 minutes longer. Serve hot with cream.

Fruit Lace

Here is the bread recipe for today....sorry no salad from 1967 anymore, yesterday was the last recipe from that year.
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Fruit Lace
Mrs. E. A. O`Donovan

1/2 cup luke warm milk
1 Tablespoon salt
2 eggs
5 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, soft
1/2 cup lukewarm water
1 teaspoon sugar
1 package yeast

Scaled milk and cool to lukewarm. Dissolve yeast and 1 teaspoon sugar in 1/2 cup warm water. Sift flour and salt. Beat in eggs and add milk, sugar and yeast. Add butter and flour. Knead. Place dough in greased bowl. Brush surface with melted butter. Cover and place in warm place to rise until double in bulk.

Filling

2 cups apple, finely chopped
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup raisins, chopped
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 Tablespoon minute Tapioca

Mix ingredients over low heat. Bring to a boil and cook slowly until thickened. Cool.
Divide dough in half. Roll in rectangle about 1/2-inch thick and 8 inches wide. Place filling down center of dough 3 inches wide. At each side of filling, make cuts 2 inches apart and 2 inches long. Take a strip on each side and cross them at center of filling. Pull strips down, keeping ends inside. Continue to lace opposite strips, tucking ends underneath. Cover with damp cloth and let rise until double in bulk. Bake at 350 degrees until golden brown. Frost with thin butter icing and decorate with cherries and walnuts

Easy Apple Pudding

I am putting two recipes today.

Easy Apple Pudding

4 medium apples, pared and sliced
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
3/4 cup water
3 Tablespoons lemon juice

Combine all ingredients and mix well, but carefully. Turn into greased baking dish and bake 30 minutes at 375 degrees or until apples are just tender.

Apple Walnut Brownies

Whats goes together better then apples and walnuts and this combination are in the form of brownies.

Apple Walnut Brownies
Mrs. H. L. Corp

1/2 cup shortening
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup walnuts, broken
1 cup apples, finely chopped

Cream sugar, shortening and eggs. Add chocolate and dry ingredients, then apples and nutmeats. Bake 40 minutes at 350 degrees. When cool , spread with chocolate icing.

Fruit salad

Ok, I consider fruit salad to be somewhat of a dessert and a more healthy one to a point. This recipe is from 1967.

Fruit Salad
Mrs. Louis Heinrich

bananas
apples
1 cup walnuts
2 Tablespoons vinegar
2 Tablespoon flour
2 Tablespoon water
1 teaspoon mustard
1 Tablespoon celery seed
1/2 pint whipping cream
1 egg

Use equal amounts of apples and bananas. Combine egg, vinegar, water , flour, mustard and celery seed. Cook indouble boiler. Add whipped cream. Combine with bananas and apples and numteats. Salad should be made about 1/2 hour before serving as bananas will discolor.