Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Apple Crisp - Gramma Hoover's Recipes

Here is another recipe from my Gramma Hoover, but this one was a loose card inside her write-in cook book. You can see how simply some recipes were written out by her. 

Hope Knight was a sweet lady that Gramma worked with at the Rural Bible Mission in western Michigan. RBM had a similar format to Child Evangelism, but the ministry was much smaller. Their missionaries went out and did release time classes for children from public schools and chapel services for children in Christian schools during the school year. During the summer vacation (holiday), they did Vacation Bible Schools for various churches who invited them in. Gramma and Hope Knight both worked at the headquarters where materials were written, printed, and sent out as well as the missionaries' newsletters. I believe Hope was an artist who helped create visual materials. Gramma worked in the printing press room and mail room.

Editorial Notes are in brackets.



Apple Crisp


Slice 6 peeled apples into baking pan. [EN: you'll have to judge the size needed. It looks like maybe 8x8 or 9x9 inches, or a 2 qt. casserole dish, possibly. I would use sweet apples since there's not sugar added to them.]

In bowl work together:

1/2 C. flour
1/2 C. oatmeal
1/2 stick margarine [EN: or butter]
1/3 C. sugar
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
3/4 tsp. nutmeg [EN: ground]

[EN: Spread the crumb mixture evenly on the top of the apples.]

Bake at 450F for 35 minutes.

4 comments:

  1. I love apple crisp and it's so simple to put together. I think I like it best with fresh apples although through the winter I often just use applesauce. Thanks for sharing your memories!

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    1. You're so welcome!
      I never thought of using apple sauce for apple crisp. That's interesting. My mom and I used to can our own apple pie filling, which works really well for crisp and upside down apple pie.

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  2. What a treasure to have it in your gramma's handwriting!

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