2 Apple Dumplings

1/2 finely chopped nuts
2 Tbsp. sugar
3 Tbsp. margarine
2 cooking apples, peeled & cored

Mix nuts & sugar and fill apple. Top with margarine. Split pastry for single pie crust into 2 pieces and roll out. Wrap each apple with crust.
Mix 1 egg yolk with 1 Tbsp cream or milk and brush crust before baking.
Place in ungreased baking dish in preheated 425 degree oven for 25-35 minutes.

Grandma & Jeanne (Mom) in her kitchen by the back door, July of 2004. Whenever company was coming Grandma would put a tablecloth over the washer & dryer (behind them) and use it as a dessert table.

Fruit Cobbler

I only recently learned that the cobbler that I grew up eating was really just rectangular pie, made with a rolled crust.  Actual cobbler has a soft dough crust more like this. 

P.S.  Melt the margarine.

Aunt Lora's Zucchini Cake

2 cups grated zucchini
3 eggs, beaten
1 cup oil
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour, regular
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
3 tsp. cinnamon
3 tsp. vanilla
1 cup ground pecans, optional

Beat eggs until fluffy, add sugar & vanilla, then oil.  Stir in zucchini.  Stir in flour & spices.  Beat until well mixed.
Bake 1 hour at 325 degrees.

P.S.  Use same recipe for zucchini bread only use 3 cups flour & 2/3 cup oil.

{The recipe was originally for zucchini bread and the changes were made by Grandma.  I held the paper up to light and the amounts changed match the post script.}