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Around here some of the Grandmas will still dry out apples, usually sun-dry instead of dehydrate, and make fried apple hand pies. Insanely good. Basically the homemade and million-times-better version of a McDonald's Apple Pie. Becoming a lost art though.

I was reading through this wondering if anyone was going to bring those up. The problem is a box of those can be ate in one sitting if you aren’t careful.

Fruitloops with Marshmallows..., Frosted Flakes, then Cheerios w/sliced bananas.

my grandmother used to do that. I remember the saw horse drying rack in the back yard full of cut up apples from the tree. She gave them out to friends and family.She brought a plate full of them to her doctor once.

I haven't thought about those pies in years.

They're one of the best things ever, but pretty hard to find now.

Sugar Smaks or Honey-nut Cheerios.

But I haven't had cereal in quite some time. I sure do miss it but feel a lot better without the extra grains, sugars, and their carbs.

My long lost brother!!!

But...........................where's my jelly donut?

Dammm,

I might move to KY for one of them. Or at least come for a visit.

Haven't canned any apples yet, never thought about it. Applesauce gets frozen though.

Wish I had that many trees in production, but we're just getting started and I think it's going to be rough around here. Lost a 5' tall young tree to fire blight this year. Now I know what to look for so can do some judicious pruning when I see it getting started. Couple of folks here have told me it's prevalent in the area though.

I haven't tried it but this recipe looks about right. Her finished product definitely looks correct. After reading the recipe you can see why these are dying out - a hell of a lot of work. Those old Grandmas were badazzes in the kitchen.


https://southernfoodandfun.com/grannys-fried-apple-pies/

Yeah, that's a lot of work for sure. Maybe I can talk my wife into it, she's the baker in the house.

Used to be an old womern at our church. Her contribution to our Fall Fun, and hayride event was to make those same little hand folded single user fried pies.

90 something years old with a jumbo Fry Daddy thingamabon cooker.

Disfiguringly hot oil

She’d make 3-4 dozen apple and a couple dozen apricot. was always iffy on whether or not you was going to even get one with 200 chow hounds milling around.

I scored am apricot once, but dayum...I was one of the hay wagon drivers.

They never stayed for the hayride or the cross burning

Those are genuine fried cakes - can't fry a jelly donut!

Unless you have figured it out - fried jelly donuts?? - the holy grail!!

And for the skeptics - yes you can put a cold donut in a bowl of milk and call it cereal if you want. I wouldn't, but you can.

You have a recipe for them fried cakes?

If so, I wonder if on could leave the "holes" in the donut, split the dough a little, fill it with jelly, pinch the dough closed like them fired pies and make some jelly donuts?

Set me up with a recipe and I'll see what we can do. I have most of a jar of homemade black currant jelly, that would make one hell of a donut!

Had some angle food cupcakes with strawberries and honey the wife made just now. I'm about ready for a jelly donut.

those look like my grandmothers.I'm going to ask my wife if she will try.

Cracklin Oat Bran...by a wide margin. Damn expensive, though. Wife and kids usually get me a box for Fathers Day. Wheaties and Golden Grahams family size boxes are almost single serving if I’m hungry enough.

In the last year, the wife has perfected sour cream donuts so when she really wants to treat us, she knocks a couple dozen of those out the night before.

I’m a lucky guy. 🤤

If you all try them, I would be interested in how they turn out. They sure do look like the real deal.

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