Flour everywhere, heck that's just in honor of Suzy (heck, you know I'm jesting, right?) ;) Enjoy your sweet feast. Have a bite for me. Sounds good, and I don't even know what's in it.

OMG Linda. I shared that because it was supposed to be so easy. rofl. I hope it was worth your effort.

OH, Don asked how to make this so I'll just give you the directions now. Ignore what Linda said. This is about the easiest dessert you can make, and a great way to use up a few apples before they go bad.

This is a slight variation on "Bess Truman's Ozark Pudding"

peel, and dice fine four apple
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup English walnuts, chunked up
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp vanilla

Beat eggs until light
add sugars and beat again
sift the dry ingredients into the liquids and stir
add the nutmeats and apples last and mix into the batter

pour this whole mess into a greased 8 x 12 pan and bake in a moderate oven about 35-45 minutes. I sometimes use a ten inch ceramic pie pan. I fudge a lot with my receipts and this one is fudgeable. Sometimes I add nuts or currents.

Should be served warm from the oven suffocated by whipped cream or ice cream.

It is easy, I am just Baking Impaired!
It is also very, very good and one I will make again, even if I do flour the entire house!

Sounds wonderful! Linda, you deserve a medal. I would have managed to track flour all over the house before I finished, and I would have forgotten to put something in!
I think I'll give it a try.

I made some cole slaw tonight. Not my favorite thing, but we were having steamed shrimp and slaw goes well with the shrimp. I made it just like I always do....you know how....a little of this....a little of that..etc. Well, it was the best cole slaw that I have ever eaten and I don't have the slightest idea what I did that was different from my usual way.

That Ozark pudding sounds wonderful. Thanks for the recipe.

Who was it that made flan one year and forgot the vanilla?

I once doubled a cookie recipe, but didn't double the sugar. Cookies were not edible. I think we fed them to the dog.

dumb question - is 350 degrees a "moderate oven"? I've seen some older recipes of my grandmother's that sound great, but I get thrown off by the "slow oven" or "fast oven" directions.

thanks
Jen

Yes, Jen.....I'd say about 350.

That does sound good. Thanks for posting the recipe Suzy. I'm still chuckling at Linda though. Wondering how you can make that much mess with only 1 cup of flour. lol. Also trying to figure out how there was so much stuff with the ingredients listed... thinking fishes and loaves........

Puffie, I think you put some moonshine in it. Actually my amazing psychic [guessing] powers say... vinegar. Extra vinegar. Smiles. Hmm...maybe I said that because I like mine with extra vinegar.

Linda, I really laughed reading your description of making "Ozark Pudding". I don't bake very often, either, but in the past have experienced some of the same sort of problems you encountered. I'm glad the *pudding* turned out so well. It sounds so delicious. I immediately copied the recipe and plan to make it, b/c I've got lots of apples. Thanks for posting it, Suzy.

Another thanks for the recipe... I was looking for this, mumble apples, mumble walnuts, mumble -- haven't the vaguest idea in what section I filed the other copy but it wasn't apples or desserts, sigh.

Flying flour can usually be avoided by spooning it from the bag into a cup. Mentioned by one who wasn't paying attention and then dropped the cup of flour into the sink, which bounced the cup up to better swish the flour lightly aroung the whole room, ceiling, cabinets and floor. And over the fridge coils which had just been cleaned. It doesn't matter how often one bakes, sometimes things just happen.

The only thing missing from your story would be what would happen to me in addition to all of the above. The dog would come running through the kitchen and track flour all through the house and on the sofa and chairs in the living room. I can see it now. Come to think of it, this really sounds familiar. De ja vu.

Pris, thanks for giving me my smile for the day. It's one of those days I needed one. I have found it to be the case that the messiest cooks are usually the one who enjoy it the most. My Mama was the best cook I ever knew and she managed to dirty every pot/pan/dish in the house when she put on a spread. The biggest difference between her and me is that she enjoyed washing them after it was over.

My dining room and kitchen are one big room. There used to be a wall between the two, but was removed when my husband remodeled. Being in the country, we also greet all our visitors from the back door. There wasn't even a PATH to the front door until we put one in. So, my kitchen is not only visible to everyone who makes it through the solarium to my back door, but the kitchen is where most of our guests and family congregates. The living room usually sits dark and empty when there are people around.

I actually thank God that I am not too anal about cooking 'trails' because I'd be paranoid. Dirt, well that's another story. I mop every morning. But, I don't worry about flour trails, or apple peels hanging from a lamp shade. As for dogs and trails........that is what cracks me up. Mine has RADAR to any pile of anything on the floor. I can't even sweep my floor and make it to the dustpan before he awakens from a day long sleep just to walk through it.