The food at the school cafeteria was, well, I suspect today it would be ruled as cruel and unusual punishment by the SCOTUS, but the school did one thing very, very, very well. And this is yet another food item I haven’t seen anywhere here. Easy to make, and oh, wonderful to eat.
Apple Crisp
3 lbs. tart apples
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/2 t. each: cinnamon and nutmeg
1/3 c. all-purpose flour
1/3 c. granulated sugar
1/3 c. rolled oats
4 T. cold butter, cut into pieces
1/2 c. finely chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 375.
Peel, core and slice apples. Mix brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and mix well with the apples. Mix flour, sugar, and oats. Cut butter into mixture until it looks like coarse cornmeal. Mix in nuts. Butter a 13×9x2 pan generously, and add apples to the baking dish. Cover the top with the flour mixture, and bake for 30-45 minutes (depends on how thinly you sliced the apples) until the apples are tender and the topping is nice and brown. Serve warm, preferably with vanilla Haagen-Dasz.
ThatGayConservative says:
I don’t know about you, but the ladies at my high school made an awesome beef & vegetable soup. It wasn’t as good as mom’s (she adds tortellini) or as good as Campbell’s, but for public school cafeteria food, it was to die for.
I was always nice and complimentary of the cafeteria ladies (I knew which side the bread was buttered) and they would always give me seconds free. I even lobbied to have the soup more than once a month.
March 1, 2007, 2:06 amRight Wing Nation says:
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June 17, 2007, 4:31 pm