Author Notes: At the Food52 launch party, Tamio gave Merrill and me a great little book, “The Metropolitan Cook Book,” published by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1924. Little did Tamio know we have a thing for old recipes — we’ve spent the past 5 years testing more than 1,200 New York Times recipes going back to the 1850s. Many of the Metropolitan recipes mirror those in the Times in the 1920s. There are potato croquettes, oyster chowder, Apple Snow (an apple-scented meringue dessert), brownies, doughnuts, iced coffee and this recipe for Prune and Apple Stuffing. If you’d like to update the recipe, add a teaspoon of chopped fresh thyme, 1 cup chicken broth and a few splashes of brandy. —Amanda Hesser
Serves: 6
Ingredients
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3
cups bread crumbs
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1/4
cup melted fat
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1
teaspoon salt
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1
cup apples, pared, cut in eighths, and stewed in a little sugar
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Few grains pepper
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1/2
cup soaked, stewed and stoned prunes
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1
cup nut meats, broken into pieces, if liked
Directions
- Mix together all the ingredients, spoon them into a buttered baking dish and bake at 350-degrees until crisp on top.
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Photo by James Ransom
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