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Baked Apples Filled With Sausage Meat

Manhattan Project National Historical Park

A baked apple with sausage meat on a plate in front of the X-10 Graphite Reactor. — Need a sweet treat after a long day working at the reactor?
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A recipe for Baked Apple with Sausage Meat. Ingredients: 6 Large Apples, 1 Cup sausage Meat, 2 Tablespoons Sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Cut a slice from top of apples, scoop out cores and pulp, leaving shell 3/4” thick.... — Oak Ridge Journal. Courtesy of the Oak Ridge Public Library.

Baked Apples Filled With Sausage Meat

Breakfast sausage, apples, cinnamon and sugar on a stove. — NPS

Ingredients

6 Large Apples
1 cup Sausage Meat
2 Tablespoons Sugar
1 teaspoon Cinnamon

An apple with the top sliced off horizontally and the inner flesh cored out. — NPS

Directions

Cut a slice from top of apples.
Scoop out cores and pulp, leaving shell 3/4" thick.

Apple shells filled with a mixture of sausage meat and apple. — NPS

Cut pulp from cores, chop and combine with sausage meat.

Apples filled with sausage meat and topped with cinnamon sugar in a greased casserole dish — NPS

Heap shells with sausage mixture and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.
Bake in greased casserole in moderate oven 45 minutes or until tender.

Serves 6.

Note: A moderate oven has a range of 350–375 °F (180–190 °C)

Recipe originally printed in the Oak Ridge Journal on March 8, 1945 in the article "Meat Shortages", page 6.

Oak Ridge housewives, along with their sisters all over the country, still have one pressing concern: finding dishes that require no meat. What many fail to consider, says Marty Dunn, dietician now working as a Roane-Anderson Town Hostess, is that several attractive dishes can be made from the ordinary unglamorous hamburger and sausage.

Several Recipes are presented below. Two utilize easy-to-get meat. If you are still utilizing the time-honored macaroni as a weekly staple, here's an extra hint: two tablespoons of chopped olives and one of chopped peppers, added after the macaroni is boiled and drained, will pep up the results.

A ranger smiles at the camera while cutting into a meat filled apple — Ranger Davey dives in!
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Tasting Notes:

Definitely better than expected! If I made it again, would chop the apple filing more and mix the cinnamon sugar into, rather than sprinkling on top. More of a dessert than an entree. - Ranger Ian