RECIPES FROM THE RETRO HOUSEWIFE

DESSERT

AEBLEKAGE (Apple Cake), Norwegian

Ingredients

• 2 cups crumbs
• 2 ½ cups apple sauce
• 1 tbsp, sugar
• ½ pint whipping cream
• ½ cup butter
• 2 tbsp. Sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• Red jelly or jam

Preparation Instructions

The crumbs may be from dried French bread or zwieback. Brown the crumbs well in a skillet with butter and sugar. Place the prepared crumbs in a serving dish in layers alternately with the cooled, tart apple sauce. (Layers of crushed macaroons may also be added.) Allow to harden in refrigerator. Turn onto a platter and decorate with whipped cream and dots of jelly. Additional whipped cream may be served in a separate dish.

Variation:The following method may also be used: Butter an oven proof dish, put layers of bread crumbs and layers of apple sauce in the dish alternately, letting the bottom and top layer be of bread crumbs. Pour 1/3 cup melted butter down through the layers, bake for 30 minutes in a hot oven (425°). Then turn out and decorate as above.

Contributed by Mrs. G. Molgaard, 1950

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