Applejack old fashioned5/16/2023 ![]() ![]() You’ll need enough liquid to cover them good with. Next day, place the apples and enough of the liquid the apples had been sitting in into a medium sized sauce pot. You could also make these with the apple pie filling in the can, or even dice up some fresh apples, whichever you prefer.ĭaddy would dry apples out in the sunshine, or most often as not, would use fresh apples to make his Applejacks. You can purchase dried apples online or at some local stores and farmers markets. To re-hydrate the apple slices, you’ll need to cover them with water and let them sit on your counter top overnight. So after leaving the little dehydrator machine running all day and all night, this is what I ended up with. The whole drying process took a good 24 hours to get them to this point. I sliced them pretty thin, and even though the dehydrator had five racks in it, it just didn’t hold very much when you spread the slices out on each rack. I think this is about one entire apple, plus about half of another one. What you see above is the first and only thing I ever tried to dry with it. Then, it sat in its box on a shelf for well over a year before I finally decided to try it out. Place the dehydrated apple slices in a large mixing bowl.Ī few years back, I purchased a cheap dehydrator at a local auction I attended each week. You can make these with fresh apples, but this is the old timey way of doing it. I’m using dehydrated apples that I dried myself. So, if you’re ready to give them a try, let’s head on out to the kitchen, and… Let’s Get Cooking!ĭaddy’s Fried Apple Hand Pies – Apple Jacks, you’ll need these ingredients. I’ll be interested to learn how you like them. I do hope you’ll enjoy one of my memories of Daddy in the kitchen. I can’t resist their looks or their tastes, I have to have one. They are always wrapped in clear plastic and sitting right beside the cash register. But, I see them ever so often at the Farmers Market, or maybe some old timey type store that I always have to visit when I see one. Smile.ĭaddy never tried to sell them in the produce stand that I recall. They would lay on a plate, uncovered, and disappear pretty quickly from there too. What we didn’t eat right away, would end up in the wooden cabinet with the glass doors that we called the pie safe. They were always so good tasting, and I looked forward to him making them often. When the apples came in, Daddy would take to the kitchen to make up a batch of these Applejacks as he called them. It was always good to see those big fresh apples on the shelves along with our end of summer produce items fresh from the garden. Daddy would always buy several bushels and resell them in the produce stand. When Fall rolled around, we’d often have one or two trucks that would stop by our produce stand with fresh mountain grown apples for sale by the bushel. He had three different garden spots that he took care of for the most part, and he left me in charge of the produce stand and it’s customers throughout the day. Smile.Īfter we moved from the country into more of the city life, Daddy opened up a produce stand in our front yard, out by the roadside. Not to be confused with the cereal you’ll find in the grocery store however. He called them Apple Jacks, or Applejacks. He also liked to make Potato Candy, and of course he often made these Fried Apple Hand Pies. She often told me that it was Daddy that taught her how to cook, but I don’t have many memories of him standing over the kitchen stove.ĭaddy made some great barbecue when we killed hogs. Many of the recipes here on Taste of Southern are attributed to my mother. Printable recipe included.Īpple Jacks – Fried Apple Hand Pies, made from scratch. This old timey Southern favorite is good by itself, and even better topped with ice cream. | 17 Comments Fried Apple Hand Pies Recipeįollow our easy, step-by-step, photo illustrated recipe to learn how to make Applejack Fried Apple Hand Pies. ![]()
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