Pioneer Day FHE and Food Storage Recipe!-Apple Slices Food Storage Recipes
You know how I LOVE themed Family Home Evening lessons and an FHE for Pioneer day (July 24th, the day the Mormon Pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley) is no different! I think it’s so important to teach our heritage to our children so they know the strength of past and present pioneers.
Click HERE for a link to a great Pioneer Day Family Home Evening lesson and read below for a fun dessert!
This dessert is SO delicious and SO easy when you use your apple slices. Apple slices make any baked apple dessert a BREEZE to make. Just think…no peeling, slicing, worrying about your apple slices turning brown! You simply hydrate the apples in hot water for 5 minutes and follow your recipe. A total life saver when you are short on time…although…aren’t we all? 
Another great reason to turn your baked apple recipes into food storage recipes every time!
Apple Brown Betty
Filling:
2 C. boiling water
4 C. dried apple slices
Topping:
1/2 C. whole wheat flour
1/4 C. oatmeal
1/4 t. cinnamon
1/4 C. brown sugar
1/4 C. butter
Pour boiling water over dried apples. Let stand at least 5 minutes. Meanwhile, mix dry topping ingredients together, then cut in butter. Place apples and any remaining liquid in a greased 9-inch square baking pan. Sprinkle topping over apples. Bake at 350 for 55 minutes.
Valentine’s Day for Two (Food Storage Style :) : Grilled Pork Chops with Cranberry Applesauce
Okay, today and tomorrow I’m going to put up some very DELICIOUS (and amazingly EASY) recipes that you can make for your honey on V-day instead of eating out (expensive!). Personally, I decided a looong time ago that I HATE eating out on V-day so I always make a nice meal at home. If you need ideas for a gift, make sure to check out Food Storage Made Easy or for some great coupons for date ideas go to The Obsessive Shopper
Considering the recipe I made uses applesauce this is a great time to learn how to make applesauce from your dehydrated apple slices (see it’s so easy to make any recipe a food storage recipe!) It is easy, delicious and no one will know! You can use this in baking to substitute for oil or as a snack.
Applesauce-Food Storage Style!
To reconstitute apple slices use equal parts of dried apples to boiling water. For example:
2 cups dried apples 2 cups boiling water
Let: this set at least 5 minutes.
If you put this mixture through the blender you will have applesauce. For variety add 3 tbsp. Cinnamon Heart Candy to the mixture before you let it set or try some Cinnamon (about 2-3 t.) and Sugar (about 3-4 T.) mixture in it.
With the only thing consistant about gas and food prices is the fact that they are consistantly going up, my husband and I have been doing a lot more dates at home. It is so easy to swap baby-sitting with a neighbor (or if you kids are old enough, eat up stairs while they play downstiars) and spend some one on one time together with little effort and for CHEAP! (and of course some food storage mixed in This meal was SO delicious, easy and cost me about $4.00 to make. That wouldn’t even feed my husband and me at a fast food restaurant!
Grilled Pork Chops with Apple-Cranberry Sauce
Again, a great time to practice cooking with an alternate heat source! The topping is simply 2 C. applesauce (I made mine from the dehydrated apple slices) and 1 can Whole Cranberry Sauce (NOT jellied). The topping looks so gourmet with the chunks of cranberry and apple and takes NO time to make!
Roasted Garlic & Rosemary Mashed Potatoes
Potato pearls are great but I have heard of people not liking them. I want to suggest to you to add in some sour cream or cream cheese and butter to them. You add those ingredients into normal mashed potatoes so why not the pearls/flakes? If you really want to fake out the family, make sure and beat them just like you would “real” mashed potatoes.
3 cloves Roasted Garlic, chopped (I roast mine on the grill while I’m grilling the meat. You will need to turn them frequently so they don’t get burned. It will cook in about 3-4 minutes)
1 T. fresh rosemary spriggs or 1 t. dried rosemary
1/2-3/4 C. Sour Cream
2 T. Butter
Add the above ingredients to your 1 batch of potato pearls (directions are on the can). Beating your potato pearls or flakes gives it a great consistency and adds in a little air for that whipped creamy texture. It’s a great way to disguise using potato pearls instead of regular potatoes.
**Oh and before I forget, the girls over at Food Storage Made Easy told me that the Wondermill Wheat Grinder will be going up in price on the 15th. If you’ve had your eye on one make sure you send you significant other to THIS LINK to purchase it before prices go up!!
Fanatic Friday: Sour Cream Apple Pie: Dehydrated Apples Food Storage Recipes
Here’s to another GREAT apple pie recipe. I just LOVE apple pies. (Can you tell?) This recipe comes from my wonderful neighbor Del. Everything she makes is DELICIOUS! This is her mother’s recipe and her favorite kind of apple pie. We brought it to a recipe swap at Relief Society and come home with a completely empty plate…not even crumbs! Give it a try…and of course we changed it to include food storage.
Sour Cream Apple Pie
Preheat oven to 375
1 pie crust for 9” pie
2 eggs (*Note from Crystal 2 T. Dry Egg Powder + 1/4 C. Water)
1 cup sour Cream
1 cup sugar
4 TBS all purpose flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp salt
3 – 4 cups peeled, chopped and cooked apples (*note from Crystal, it is faster to re-hydrate dried apples. Place 2 1/2 dehydrated apple slices in 3 1/2 C. boiling water and let stand for five minutes, discard excess water )
In a large bowl beat eggs then add sour cream and sugar. Put in 4 TBS flour, vanilla, & salt and mix well. Stir in apples, and then pour into pie shell.
Bake at 375 for 20 minutes
Crumb Topping
3 TBS butter – melted
¼ cup brown sugar
6 TBS all purpose flour
Mean while combine brown sugar, flour, & butter with wire whisk or whisk on mixer until crumbly (should look like small peas)
After 20 minutes cooking take pie out and top with crumb topping, then return to oven and continue cooking for 20 – 25 minutes.
Cool, cover and store leftovers in fridge.
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Dutch Apple Pie: Dehydrated Apple Food Storage Recipes
I was very happy to discover just how easy it is to use dehydrated apples in apple pies. In fact, not only are they easy…they are DELICIOUS! I can honestly say I will NEVER go back to peeling, coring, and slicing apples EVER AGAIN for a delicious apple pie. Making an apple pie from dehydrated apples saves time (takes only 5 minutes to get the apples ready and most of that time is just the apples sitting in boiling water), makes a smaller mess, and is just as delicious. HOORAY!! Once again food storage makes life easier (and just as delicious)! So give it a try at your Thanksgiving Feast…no one will know you did anything different.
DUTCH APPLE PIE
One pre-made pie crust (you can make your own or I like those pilsbury ones that aren’t in a pie crust)
Filling:
2 cups dried apples firmly packed 2 cups boiling water.
Pour over apples and let set for at least 5 minutes.
Mix together:
1/3 cup sugar 2 tbsp. Flour
½ tsp. Cinnamon
Add to the apple mix and continue cooking until thick. Stir constantly to prevent scorching. Pour mixture into pie shell and dot with 1 tbsp. Butter
Topping:
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
½ cup whole wheat flour
¼ cup butter
Cut in till crumbly. Sprinkle over the apple mixture and place in 350ºF oven for 55 minutes.
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