{"id":7990,"slug":"apple-sponge-pudding","title":"APPLE SPONGE PUDDING","description":"From The International Jewish Cook Book by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum.","ingredients_raw":["eight apples","sugar","raisins","cinnamon","pounded almonds","a little white wine","eight eggs","two scant cups of sugar","a pinch of salt","grated peel of a lemon","a cup of matzoth flour"],"ingredients_norm":["apple","sugar","raisin","cinnamon","pounded almond","little white wine","egg","scant cups of sugar","salt","peel of lemon","matzo flour"],"steps":["Pare eight apples and cut off the tops carefully, so as to be able to use them as covers to the apples.","Now scrape out the inside with a knife, being careful not to break the apple.","Mix the scrapings with sugar, raisins, cinnamon, pounded almonds and a little white wine.","Fill this mixture into the hollow of the apple and clap on a cover for each apple.","Then grease a pudding dish, lay in the apples and stew them for a few minutes, but not long enough to break them.","Make a sponge cake batter of eight eggs and two scant cups of sugar and a pinch of salt and add the grated peel of a lemon and beat until thick, at least half an hour.","Fold in a cup of matzoth flour, sifted very fine.","Pour this batter over the apples and bake in a moderate oven.","Serve with wine sauce."],"categories":[],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":"Half this quantity is sufficient for a small family.","difficulty":null,"source_name":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12350","source_ref":"pg:12350:w113:8","authors_url":null,"license":"Public domain (US)","license_url":null,"extraction_confidence":1.0,"content_hash":"43b1257051cfaede9af4675ad9c291227a72287270f34c5f4f6d49fddac6d670","created_at":"2026-08-02T17:07:29Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:32Z","notice":"Historical recipe, reproduced as published: it may reflect its era's ingredients, language, and food-safety practices. Apply modern judgment on cooking temperatures and preservation.","url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/apple-sponge-pudding"}