Apple Crisp

I’ve been making this recipe since I was 10, pretty much the same way.  It’s simple and delicious, the way dessert should be. 

In the 8^th grade, I was given a Recipe Notebook to write down all my favorite meals.  This was the first recipe I wrote down.  I still have the book—the pages are frayed, yellowey, and stained, and I continue to refer to it to this day.   Testament to the fact that I started writing in it in 1983:  there’s also a recipe for “Flock of Seagulls Punch”.

...in my 8th grade handwriting

In honor of #NationalAppleBettyDay, please enjoy my Apple Crisp  :)

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(WHAT YOU WILL NEED)

5 or 6 baking apples (I use Granny Smith)
1 cup sugar
1 cup all purpose flour
1/3 cup butter (plus a little extra to grease the pan)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
cinnamon
Vanilla ice cream
8 inch square baking pan


Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Grease baking pan

Peel and core apples, then slice into slices like orange sections.  Place in pan.

In mixing bowl, add sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt.

Break egg into cup then add to sugar mixture.  Use fork to mix together until crumbly.  You'll think there's no way that one egg will make a crumbly mixture but just keep working at it.  By the time your wrist is sore, you'll have crumbs.

Sprinkle crumbs on apples

Melt butter, then drizzle over the crumb mixture in pan.  Sprinkle cinnamon all over the top.

Bake for 1 hour, uncovered.

When you take it out of the oven, it will look like this:

Spoon into bowls and serve with ice cream on top.  The ice cream is a MUST because it makes a creamy sauce as it melts that's both hot and cold...so good...