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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Connie's Hot Cranberry~Apple Dish

A long time ago on a different social network, I "met" a gal named Jenni. I'm not sure how we got acquainted but we did. We followed each other on the other site then when Facebook became all the rage, we were friends there, too. I've never met her in person but I feel like if I did we'd be good friends. One thing good friends do is share recipes and she shared this one that she got from another friend, on her FB page not long ago. What's funny is that she had shared it on the other site YEARS ago and I printed it out to use and promptly misplaced it. So when she posted it again, I snatched it right up to use on SFFS...with Jenni's permission of course. We had it at Thanksgiving but it would be terrific for your Christmas dinner, too. The original recipe does not use butter in the topping, so that's totally your call. I used it...because, well..I just did and I love butter. It's a different spin on traditional cranberry sauce...you should try it because I think you'd really like it. Just like I did.

Connie's Hot Cranberry~Apple Dish



3 cups diced red apples (with peel still on ~ 2 - 3 medium apples)
2 cups raw fresh cranberries
1 cup white sugar

Stir well making sure fruit is covered in sugar.


Place in a greased 2 quart baking dish.


Topping

1/4 cup butter, softened ~ optional
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup oats
1/3 cup flour

Stir together and spread on top of fruit. Bake at 350 for an hour!


The line up.
The line up.


Combine the apples, cranberries and sugar.
Combine the apples, cranberries and sugar.


Look how sparkly!
Look how sparkly!


Pour into a greased dish.
Pour into a greased dish.


Mix up the flour, oats, brown sugar and butter.
Mix up the flour, oats, brown sugar and butter.


Then stir in the pecans.
Then stir in the pecans.


Sprinkle on top of the cranberry mixture.
Sprinkle on top of the cranberry mixture.


Bake it up! So good!!
Bake it up! So good!!