6-8 Medium apples
1/2 c. white sugar
1/2 c. water
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup sifted flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 c. butter or margarine
Slice and peel apples and put in sauce pan with sugar and water. Cook 5-8 minutes or until soft. Pour apples and juice into a greased 9x13 pan. Combine and make a topping of brown sugar, flour, salt, and baking powder, then cut in 1/2 c. butter until fine. Spread evenly over apples. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes.
When I was growing up, my mom usually served us a special menu at Halloween. I don't know where it originated, but we had it for years and she still serves it to guests around this time of year. You can create a menu sheet listing the following items or little labels to put by the items on the table:
Pumpkin Guts: The entree is cooked in a pumpkin. A recipe similar to the one my mom made can be found here.
Other variations we've done are 1) Martha Stewart style: serving each person's stew in smaller individual pumpkins, 2) Time-saver: put canned chili in the pumpkin instead, or 3) Crowd-pleaser: put Sloppy Joe mix in the pumpkin instead.
Fingers and Toes: Baby carrots and celery
Broken Bones: Frito's
Spider Eggs: Chip dip (I'm blanking on which chip dip she used, so I'll have to get back to you on that. I know it had little black dots in it...)
Blood Run Cold: Vanilla ice-cream with strawberry swirls
Witch's Brew: Punch
With the weather in southern California turning slightly cooler, it's finally starting to feel a bit like fall around here. I still miss this time of year in Chicago (although fall lasts about 2 weeks there and then you're stuck with months and months of winter!). So, in honor of autumn and all its glory, here is one of my favorite pumpkin recipes:
Grease a 9 x 13 inch pan. Mix pumpkin, evaporated milk, brown sugar, eggs, salt and cinnamon together and pour into pan. (You can also put in a little pumpkin spice if you have it). Sprinkle dry cake mix over the pumpkin mix. Evenly spread nuts over cake mix. Pour melted butter over nuts evenly. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. (Keep an eye on it though, because it may be done
faster
than this). Serve with whipped cream.
