Recently, my blogging buddy Sheryl posted a recipe for ‘Apple Johnny Cake’ (apple cornbread) on her blog ‘A Hundred Years Ago’ it was such a tasty sounding simple recipe that I new I had to try it. I can imagine way-back-when the end of winter foods being slim and folks searching for ways to make a tasty treat out of the last of their staples.
I had to make a few adjustments to the Apple Cornbread recipe. I first had to cut it down to small size to fit my little iron skillet. I didn’t have any baking powder, so instead I added an egg in the batter as a binder and to hopefully help it rise.
I layered the batter and apple slices to make it fairly even in my little pan.
As it was baking I made up a quick batch of stewed apples to serve over the Apple Cornbread.
The Apple Cornbread baked up beautifully and came out of the pan clean and well formed. It sliced beautifully too with few crumbles.
As for taste, the Apple Cornbread is a bit bland, but it would be a welcomed treat at the end of winter if staples were low. Now topped with stewed apples it’s a mighty tasty treat.
“Thank you Sheryl for sharing recipes and interesting snippets from the past. Your blog is a joy to visit. I’ll be making this recipe again and again. :).”
Original recipe for ‘Apple Johnny Cake’
Folks, If you have some time, pay a visit to Sheryl’s blog, there’s lots of nostalgic recipes and trivia to learn and see there.
Wishing you all sweet memories & smiles.
We’ve been watching this Turkey hen visit our yard and garden. We hoped that we’d get to see a flock of poults soon. She has her nest in the woods or field a few acres away.
Unfortunately, we discovered a broken wild turkey egg next to one of our day-lilies. Some critter stole it from the turkey nest and was so desperate to escape the flogging Mama that it kept running for many acres until it got to our yard to eat it.
We’ve had a gnome invasion in the rain-chain garden.
My husband and I have been busy shopping for garden plants. We decided to keep it fairly simple this year. A few tomato plants and 
I agreed, but I chose to buy a potted rosemary plant in the produce department of our local grocery store so I wouldn’t have to worry about hidden bugs that might get loose in my kitchen. The directions on it’s packaging said to set the potted rosemary in a sunny window. My kitchen doesn’t have a very sunny window, so I decided to it needs to spend days on the back porch. The pot it was in was quite small so I re-potted it in a little blue pot that my son gave me many years ago.
I wanted to set the rosemary outside, but once again I ran into the same bug 
While out seed shopping, my husband saw a pack of mixed colors of bell peppers. One of the colors is purple and since we’ve never seen a purple pepper, he bought the pack of peppers. The pepper seeds are all mixed up and we can’t be sure which pepper colors is which, so my husband bought a 72 pellet tray for me to start them in. Almost all the seeds have sprouted. We’re going to have a huge pepper patch (and there’s no guarantee that we’ll have a purple pepper since there’s 30 seeds left over.lol)
I bought a tray of small daffodils to plant for next Spring. I’ve never seen any daffodil blooms so small. I hope they survive and bloom pretty next Spring.
My husband has the garden tilled up and waiting for the right time and weather for planting. We’re supposed to get some rain, so He’ll have to till it again before we plant.
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