My Mother's Recipe for Apple Goody

We found this recipe on 1st Traveler's Choice Internet Cookbook and thought it was the perfect cozy recipe for our Mother's Day issue. Here's a quick note from Sharon Irvin, who submitted the recipe:

"My mother made this recipe quite often when I was growing up, and it was one of my favorites. I believe that it was my grandmother's recipe also. I found this recipe in a blank book that my mother wrote recipes in during the 1930s. She also wrote her memories of the dust storms that Eastern Colorado had during the 1930s in the same book."

Ingredients:
4 cups apples
1 Tablespoon flour
1 cup sugar
1 Tablespoon butter


Directions:
1. Mix apples, 1 Tablespoon flour, sugar, and butter and place in a buttered 2-quart baking pan.
2. 2. Mix dough ingredients together and put enough water in to make a heavy batter.
3. Pour over apple mixture.
4. Bake in oven at 350 degrees until apples are cooked through or top is golden brown.
5. Serve with whipped cream.

Mother's Moon Cookies

We found this recipe in the Mother's Day section at www.theholidayspot.com, which is a great place to look when you want to find a recipe for any holiday.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup chopped nuts


Directions:
1. Sift together flour, 1/2 cup powdered sugar and salt.
2. Stir in condensed milk, vanilla and soft butter. Blend well and fold in chopped nuts. Chill well.
3. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with foil.
4. Roll the dough pencil thin and form in crescent shape. Arrange cookies on the cookie sheet.
5. Bake on top rack of the oven for 12 minutes until set, do not brown. Let the cookies cool on pan. While still warm roll the cookies in leftover powdered sugar.