Mennonite - Apple Platz
Source of Recipe
Olga
Recipe Link: http://parenthood.com/recipe_display.html?ID=21395 In Steinbach, Manitoba, the heart of that province's
Mennonite community, Platz is served with morning
coffee, as a luncheon dessert and as a afternoon snack.
It's somewhere between a pie and a cake with a crumb
topping. Because of the availability, rhubarb and apple
fill most platz, but cooks can use any plentiful seasonal
fruit, such as gooseberries, cherries, apricots,
strawberries or a combination.
Mennonite - Apple Platz
for dough:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1/2 cup (approx) milk
for filling:
4 cups chopped, peeled, cored apples
1 tsp. grated lemon peel
2 tsp. lemon juice
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup all purpose flour
Pinch salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter, melted
Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease a 9-inch square cake pan and set aside.
for the dough:
In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and
salt.
With a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter
until mixture is crumbly.
In a separate bowl, beat egg; drizzle over dry
ingredients and toss together with a fork to
make coarse crumbs. Scoop out 1 cup and reserve.
Sprinkle milk over remaining crumbs; stir
together to make a soft dough.
Use a little more milk if necessary to achieve
this consistency. Spread into prepared pan.
for filling:
Combine apples, lemon peel and juice in a large bowl.
Add sugar, flour and salt and toss together.
In a separate bowl, beat eggs and mix in butter.
Stir into apple mixture.
Pour over platz base in pan.
Sprinkle reserved crumbs over fruit filling.
Bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until the platz has
risen evenly, the crumbs have take on a golden tinge
and a skewer inserted in the filling in the centre of
the pan comes out clean.
Let cool in the pan; best served within a day or two.
Makes 12 pieces.
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