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On the Table
Better Butter & Burgers
Recipes from St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
RECIPE
Festive Fall Apple Butter
November’s status as the chilliest month of fall makes it the perfect time to try out some new cozy, homestyle recipes. This apple butter recipe from Rev. Vicki Zust of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (see story, pg. 8) is easy enough to leave sitting while you turn your attention to Thanksgiving dinner.
INGREDIENTS
• 3 ½-4 pounds apples, any variety (Zust suggests a combination of sweet and tart) • ½ cup sugar, either white or brown • 1 tbsp. cinnamon • 1 tsp. nutmeg • ½ tsp. ground cloves • 2 pinches salt
INSTRUCTIONS
• Cut the apples into small dices. It is better, though not necessary, to peel them first. Add diced apples and all other ingredients in the slow cooker. Cook 5 hours on high or 10 hours on low. • Blend with a stick blender if you like smooth apple butter, or mash with a potato masher if you like it chunkier.
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Hamburger Cookies
St. Mark’s is well known for its community events, and its bake sale and holiday cookie exchange are two of its biggest events of the year.
Zust directed us to a fan favorite at these events: these charming “hamburger cookies” from Anice Ellis, a member of the congregation and the church’s outreach committee.
These sweet sandwiches are always the first to go at St. Mark’s events, Zust says.
“Adults love these as much as kids,” Ellis says.
INGREDIENTS
(Makes approximately 3 dozen cookies.) • 1 box vanilla wafers • 1 package grasshopper cookies (chocolate mint) • 1 can plain vanilla frosting • Orange gel food coloring • Green gel food coloring • 1 cup unsweetened coconut flakes • Sesame seeds for garnish • 1 egg white
INSTRUCTIONS
• Color about 1 cup of coconut with a few drops green food coloring in a plastic bag. Shake until coconut turns green (like shredded lettuce). • Color ½ cup frosting with orange food coloring until the frosting is the color of cheddar cheese. • Invert 1 vanilla wafer. Spread on white frosting to look like mayonnaise. Place grasshopper cookie on top to be the burger patty, then spread orange frosting (“cheese”) on top of patty and sprinkle coconut (“lettuce”) on frosting to look like shredded lettuce. • Top with a second wafer right side up. • Brush top of wafer with small amount of egg white and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Repeat until you run out of wafers.
Tyler Kirkendall is an editor at CityScene Media Group. Feedback welcome at tkirkendall@cityscenemediagroup.com.
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