Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Antique Shaker Apple Recipes

I knew it, Erma. I knew that some way or another you would work in the alcohol–even with the poor, teetollaling Shakers! I don’t see those quaint Shaker Sisters putting down barrels of home/village dried plums into barrels of brandy. If so, some of the Shaker brothers probably “sampled” the brew from time to time.

I have had your wonderful Brandied Prunes and they are addicting.

You mentioned your Shaker Apple Soup, and I thought of this odd Shaker Apple Curry Soup. Do you have any idea when curry powder came into use? Certainly not in the earliest years of the Shaker villages. This is a most unusual soup.

Apple Curry Soup:

2 large apples
2 onions
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon flour
½ teaspoon curry powder
2 cups chicken broth
8 ounces apple juice or white wine
3 ounces diced chicken breast

Peel, core and chop the apples and onions. In a frying pan, melt the butter and cook the apples and onions until they are soft. Add the flour and curry powder and cooking for 5 minutes more. Add everything else, except the chicken, and simmer for 15 minutes. Strain through a sieve and return to the pan. Add the chopped chicken breast just before serving.

Serves 4.

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