[Jamestown1630]

This month: Biscuits, Apples – and weird, friendly Birds.

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-JT

[TianaHighrider]

Thank you! Love me some apples! Biscuits too. Pretty Birdies for entertainment too. Dinner and a movie! :)

[lizma2]

My favorite apple recipe is Waldorf Salad

Apples, grape, craisins, celery, chicken, pecans or walnuts, mayo and and a touch of lemon juice.

Yummy.

[be-baw]

I haven’t tried it yet, but this is supposed to be an excellent biscuit recipe, courtesy of food scientist, Alton Brown. And it doesn’t require any goofy homemade contraptions that other Brown recipes call for.

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/southern-biscuits-recipe-2041990

[bgill]

Substitute chayote squash for apples for lower carbs. Slice and saute in butter with cinnamon and sweetener. Serve with pork chops.

[boatbums]

Speaking of "weird, friendly Birds.", there are numerous water birds that make the huge pond behind our villa their home. Right now we have three large sand cranes, lots of cormorants, tons of seagulls and a large family of ducks. We watched the ducks grow from newly hatched to almost fully grown and they are the most tame, so far. It's supposedly against the law to feed the cranes so we don't try to feed them. But we do feed the ducks and if they leave anything, it's not our fault if the cranes help themselves. ;o)

We went and bought a big bag of dried meal worms and also some wild duck pellets to offer them. What's funny, though, is they will waddle right up to us and sample what we toss but they barely touch the mealworms or the pellets! However, they go crazy for plain old BREAD. I guess it's their junk food. Anyway, we enjoy them but I still really miss all the birds we had in North Carolina. I even miss the squirrels!

[Jamestown1630]

Our FRiend, nopardons, submits a recipe for Apple Fritters (with further comments on how to revise for Corn Fritters, after our back-and-forth over using canned corn or fresh :-):

Apple Fritters chez Nopardons

Peel and core 3 or 4 apples ( red delicious works well and what my family has always used ) and chop them up into medium or slightly larger piecs and squeeze a bit of lemon juice on them to keep them from browning.

Fritter batter:

1 cup of flour

1 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder

1/4 teaspoon of salt

1 egg

2/3 cups of milk

1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon

Mix all dry ingredients together and then add the beaten
egg and milk slowly, to combine the ingredients.
When the mixture is smooth, add the chopped apples, mixing thoroughly.

Drop teaspoon full of the mixture into already heated vegetable oil and fry until golden brown, turning them with a slotted spoon, so all surfaces get cooked.

Remove the fritters from the oil and drain on a paper towel. Sprinkle heavily with powdered sugar.
Some people do this with apple rings, but we’ve never done that.

For Corn Fritters, Nopardons continues:

“It calls for the corn to be boiled and then the kernels removed from the cob.

“I distinctly remember my mother draining the can of corn ( Delmonte ! ) into the fritter mixture.

“You can use the fritter recipe I sent, but add a bit more baking powder, 1 teaspoon of melted butter, a bit more salt than what was called for, a bit of pepper ( if desired ) and a small can ( or the medium sized one, if you want a lot of corn ) and fry up in veggie oil. I use Crisco and I fry my fritters in a large frying pan.

“My family always served the corn fritters with maple syrup, NOT powdered sugar.

“I love baked apples but I assume that everyone on the thread knows how to make them. :-)”.