Author Piper Huguley & Fried Apples!
My guest today is author Piper Huguley and she’s sharing a family recipe for FRIED APPLES and her latest book, Treasure of Gold, a 20th century historical that really sounds interesting. Here’s Piper:
Hello everyone!
Fried Apples is a longtime Holt family favorite.
My mother taught me how to make them and she learned the recipe from her grandmother. We usually eat them as a side dish with poultry. I make fried apples often, about two times a week.
Fried Apples
4 medium sized apples (I use Golden Delicious, Fiji, Gala. Granny Smiths are too hard and McIntoshes are too soft—even though I love the tartness of them).
½ cup sugar mixed with 1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon butter
½ cup apple cider or apple juice (If you don’t have them, water is fine, but cider or juice does add flavor)
Melt the butter into a skillet on medium heat on top of the stove. Thinly slice the apples (keep the peel on). Pour the apples into the skillet on top of the melted butter. Pour on the cider/juice and sprinkle the cinnamon sugar mixture over all. Cover with the lid and let simmer for 10 minutes or so until the apples are soft. Once the apples are soft, take the lid off and continue to cook until the liquid has mostly thickened into a syrup. Once it has, the fried apples are done!
I can just see the Bledsoe girls, the heroines in my “Migrations of the Heart” series heroines eating these fried apples on top of those famous homemade cathead biscuits! Enjoy!–Piper
