CELEBRITIES….DISH!

Bernie Hafenstein has been affiliated with The ARC of Dodge County for many years and currently serves as their Secretary. She also has been the Cake Superintendent at the Dodge County Fair and after 30 years at this post, recently retired this past August. Since the ARC of Dodge County is a beneficiary of the Children’s Radiothon, I invited Bernie to submit one of her favorite recipes. She knows a lot about cooking and baking and submitted this CHEESE APPLE COBBLER which came from her mom, Julianna Lehner, who would make this as their meal (where some people might think it is only a dessert). In Bernie’s family, it has always been served as a complete meal. It was called a “cobbler” but it’s more than that. Bernie’s children like it so much that they request it for their birthday meal-even to this day. Since we’re right in the middle of “apple season”, I thought this would be a great on to feature in CELEBRITIES….DISH this week.

Bernie offered this tip: you can peel and slice all the apples and freeze the 12 cups in a freezer bag. Her family loves the apple part so much that she always doubles the amount called for in this recipe. (One of her granddaughters loves only the apple part and leaves the dough!)

 

Cheese Apple Cobbler

6 c. peeled, sliced apples (12 apples = 6 cups) *(I double the apple amount)

2 Tbsp. flour

1 c. sugar

½ tsp. cinnamon

¼ tsp. nutmeg

Mix and bake in casserole at 375° for 45 minutes or microwave 25 minutes.

Dough recipe:

2 c. flour

3 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1 Tbsp. sugar

1/4 c. shortening

1 egg beaten with a fork (save 1 tsp. for top)

½ c. milk

Grated Cheese

20 slices of American cheese

Mix flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and shortening with fork. Add egg mixture and milk. Mix and work on floured board. Roll out to size of about 14×18 (rectangular shape) and sprinkle with about 20 slices of American cheese-shredded to cover the dough almost to the end. Roll lengthways and pinch the ends together so cheese doesn’t ooze out of edge of roll. Put rolled end down on top of apples after they have baked for 45 minutes in oven. Put small slices on top of the dough with scissors every 2”; brush with 1 tsp. egg mixture. Bake at 375° for 45 minutes.