For our wedding we received the "Wedding Edition" of the "Big Red Cook Book", which we are slowly working our way through. I recently tried the recipe for apple dumplings. While I've generally been impressed by the other recipes I've tried from the book, this once seemed to require an extraordinary amount of tweaking to make it work, although in the end it was delicious all the same.
My first issue was with the wrapping dough recipe. It was very simple to make, but made about 1/3 of what it was supposed to (maybe 2 or 3 dumplings, not 6-8). The directions said to roll the dough very thin and cut it into 4inch by 7inch pieces. I was able to cut two, re-roll the dough and get a third. I ended up making a second batch and cutting additional pieces.
The second problem I ran into was with the apple size. The directions called for 1/6th of a medium apple, peeled and cored (the picture showed the slice that you get when you used an apple corer/slicer). Either my medium apples were far too large, I mis-measured the dough, or the recipe was wrong, but it was nearly impossible to fit an apple slice comfortably in one dough square. I tried with a few and then ended up cubing the apples and using whatever would fit.
The recipe included a sugar and spice filling and a sweet syrup to use, and I also included walnuts in the dumplings. They turned out great when baked the recommended time. The finished product was very much like a mini-apple pie and they were great served with whipped cream. I will definitely be making these again, but hopefully with fewer issues now that I worked some things out.
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