Apple Cottage Pudding

Ingredients

• 1 c all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 14 tsp salt
• 13 c butter room temperature
• 12 tsp vanilla extract
• 12 tsp grated lemon rind
• 13 c sugar
• 12 c milk
• 3 green cooking apples
• 14 c sugar
• 14 tsp each cloves nutmeg and allspice
• sweetened lightly whipped cream
• cinnamon
• sifted powdered sugar optional

Directions

1. Mix together flour baking powder and salt
2. Set aside
3. Cream butter vanilla lemon rind and 12 cup sugar until well blended Add egg and beat until fluffy
4. Add flour mixture to the creamed mixture and mix until a smooth batter forms
5. Pare core and quarter the apples
6. Arrange in the bottom of an 8-inch quiche pan shallow casserole or pie pan
7. Mix the 14 cup sugar with the cloves nutmeg and allspice
8. Sprinkle half the mixture over apples in the pan
9. Pour batter over apples
10. Sprinkle with remaining spiced sugar
11. Bake at 375 for 40 to 45 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean
12. Serve hot with whipped cream and a sprinkling of cinnamon
13. Also can sprinkle with sifted confectioners sugar
14. Good as coffee cake the next day