2 egg
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
3 tbsp flour, rounded
1 cup apple, chunks
1/4 cup walnuts
Directions
Beat eggs light. Add sugar slowly and beat well. Add flour, baking
powder, salt and vanilla. Beat. Stir in apple chunks and walnuts.
Bake in 6 x 9 inch pan (my Mom seems to have the only pan that size,
which was my great-grandmother's pan--a 7 x 11 pan or
8 x 8 works OK).
Double the recipe if you are using a 9 x 13 pan. I have used rhubarb
instead of apples, and other fruits would work as well.
Servings: 8 servings
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Categories: Apple; Fruit
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