Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1917 — Pan Dowdy. [ARTICLE]

Pan Dowdy.

Pare and Quarter enough sour, juicy apples to nearly fill an earthen baking dish, add to the apples half a cupful of hot water and nearly a cupful of molasses. FOr crust use one quart of flour, one teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, one teaspoonful salt, half a cupful creamed butter, one pint rich, sweet milk. Mix soda, cream of tartar and salt well into dry flour, work the creamed butter Into the prepared flour till fine and yellow. Add milk to this mixture and mold to a delicate dough. Roll it out an inch thick and fit closely over the apples. Bake in a moderate oven as long as the crust will allow. When done, while warm, break the crust into pieces and mix through the apples; serve wlfh cream or milk.