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you usually don't finish at all no when
we're filming usually I have a bite or
two you know and it is very good uh but
I haven't haven't had these in forever
and youve seen me eat three years so
they are worth the effort they are it
must be a good recipe it is and who
don't like some ice cream with some of
that good Whiskey sauce there in it
hey welcome back to the wagon and what
are we talking about an old classic
dessert apple dumplings now some of
y'all may have made apple dumplings with
Mountain Dew you may have but we going
with the adult version today so in will
come the Apple Crown in will come the
cinnamon whiskey and folks you need to
know this stuff will boil out it ain't
just like you're taking a drink but this
is an old classic dessert that's been
around forever and ever we're just going
to change it up and I got faith in you
and I want each and every one of you
watching you can cook this outside get
yourself a dutch oven get out there
we're going to walk you through the
steps it's very easy to do I'm going to
tell you this I have turned the knobs
here and we have Bera on medium high we
do cuz she's burning one side of my leg
half a stick of butter in there melted
we got to make the wet first a lot of
people don't do this they just pour all
this right on top of the apples and
stuff but folks we need to cook this
down to let everything sort of blend so
a little light brown sugar some white
sugar a little cinnamon
some Mountain
Dew we got to save about that much cuz
Justin Wilson says you like Mountain Dew
occasionally it's got a lot of caffeine
in it's sort of like running on high
octane so we're going to set that right
over and have it to celebrate here in a
minute will she melt no not right there
she won't Apple
Crown but also what a little cinnamon
whiskey the same amount okay now if
somebody now if you don't alcohol could
you just leave it out and put more
Mountain Dew in yeah just use a whole
bottle of Mountain Dew and you'll be
good but we got to let this simmer all
that sugar and stuff in there as this
begins to cook in a dutch oven here Mee
it's going to thicken some just like a
syrup to me there's nothing better than
the smell of cinnamon and sugar going
together but folks we're going to let it
simmer probably about 5 minutes just
here on the low side of Bera just to
where all them flavors are Blended well
then we'll get to go into making apple
dumplings everybody would say use a
granny smith apple not a Uncle Fred
apple or Aunt Alice's but Granny Smith
why because there is a little tartness
in a granny smith apple but also it is
one of the firmer apples that's going to
stand up to this so when you get it
baked it's just not a mush I used to
make a lot of Apple cobblers on ranches
for Cowboys and it would just peel
apples all the time but dessert time to
Cowboys is like the coup de gr something
like that I don't think that's the right
word c the gr C the CP C the I think it
somebody on Google will probably tell me
that ain't how you you pronounce it co
de grass so let's get these apples
peeled but I'm going to tell you dessert
time for Cowboys on ranches me and Shan
we tried to founder them now if you
don't know what that means that means
you eat so much you can't hardly get up
I always tell people when you get
through with a really good meal I feel
like a foundered dead carp laying on a
beach Sunny Side Up they they come to
know and expect it when we're feeding
them on ranches that this this is really
good this steak we're having but I
wonder what they made for dessert and we
usually do dessert for lunch and dinner
yeah when you take a lid off something
you can see it in their eyes like a
sense of they're like home it's like
comfort and that's what it's all about
for me and Shen especially one of the
first ones I was on down south abene
Texas and I was peeling apples one day
and some of them old- was gathered
around sitting in chairs around the
wagon because they never would come on
the Fly unless invited them and had all
them apple peelings and I just had them
in a bowl and was fixing to just pitch
them out there somewhere and I heard one
of them say that'd make a good Poor
Man's apple pie right there and I
remember talking to my mother and stuff
and they would save these apple peelings
and she would sweeten them some but this
would be the actual fruit that was in
the cobbler when you cook these they
just cook down nearly fall apart but
you're getting a lot of sweetness too on
a ranch we tend to use everything we can
and we're not going to make Poor Man's
apple pie but I guarantee you there'll
be a possum or a raccoon or even some
old wild turkeys come by and they'll be
thanking us for this so there you go
hope yall enjoy and just slice them in
half
first we're not going to use Johnny's
apple seeds in there so I like to go
around them the first time and come back
over here and get him again but you you
can take your knife and just cut down in
here and get them out
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you want to peel and slice three to four
apples you've seen I had a lot in that
pot but hey I got some folks coming
later on today so I'm just going to cook
all these after a while that's why I
sliced them all but you use three to
four cuz we're going to need 16 pieces
and I'm not talking little bitty pieces
I'm talking something that's a pretty
good bite of Apple cuz this is going to
get rolled up in one crescent roll
itself get you some crescent rolls made
since he is
ready get them out of this wack them can
just get these separated out here when
you go to cook these and you've seen a
thousand people recipes they just roll
them up here and just keep rolling them
but folks you you can't go wrong with a
little more flavor everywhere so just
give it a little dusting it's really
hard for me to do in the wind give it a
little bit of
sugar we'll give it a little more Mage
is that enough Mage says yep that's
enough so started at the big end of the
crescent roll and just roll I like to
tuck this this corner over right here
and look what we got a finished dumpling
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well we have greased us a deep 12in oven
now if you're doing this in the house
preheat your oven to 350° and get you a
9 by3 casserole dish grease it really
well with some butter spray whatever you
got but I'm going to have to put some of
these in a shall of 10 if you had a
regular 12in Dutch oven you could do
that and probably get them all on there
but you don't want to crowd these so
explain to me why why you lose space in
a deep Dutch oven versus a shallow in a
straight shallow 12 the walls are pretty
straight as it comes down in a deep 12
it's tapered to come out just a little
so there's actually left cooking surface
in the bottom of it than there is the
other now we're just going to take our
sauce pour over here to make sure
they're about half covered in each one
of them we're going to reserve just a
little for serving to where we can pour
it over that ice cream and everything so
hey let's get to cooking cuz me and M is
hungry
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cooking in a dutch oven you know you've
SE me do this a lot but this is a little
different today it is cuz we are
actually stacking the oven so conserve a
little heat what oven is the hottest
let's think heat rises so the top oven
is hotter than the first one that's why
it's on the tallest of the trivet now we
will have to rotate today because the
wind is blowing pretty good but remember
this is a liquid base in there so you
have a little buffer there you can keep
an eye on your liquid make sure it ain't
dissipating and that is a big turn now
when we started this we put pretty heavy
coals around the bottom of the Dutch
oven on the outside edge but when you
load that lead up on the one that's the
bottom one you're creating an extra
amount of heat because you have the heat
from the side heat from the tops now
let's say you're at a campground and you
got to feed your family there and you
ain't got a lot of coals but you got
like three maybe four dutch ovens and
you can stack with the biggest oven
being on the bottom and you can pyramid
up but what goes in the bottom one
whatever is going to cook the longest
that you need to check the least amount
should be on the bottom that would be
the meat then next you could go with
that casserole even or even your
potatoes but the dessert always goes on
the top or bread because that way you
can see it you know what's happening and
if if you need to you can juggle you can
rotate ovens back and forth do it with
both hands get them in there but always
remember whatever's going to cook the
longest needs to be on the
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bottom now to start off cooking these
you really want to check them here in
about 5 minutes in to see if you've
reached a little old simmering but we're
going to need to soften everything let
them crescent rolls expand really good I
done had to pull a little heat away from
my Dutch oven there on the bottom to
slow it down a little because it was
cooking a little fast but one thing
that's pretty important that you got to
have is a good lid lifter you know you
can't just reach down there and grab a
hold of that and I have used a lot of
lid lifters and we partnered up with the
folks at Hasty bit and this thing folks
will save your life cooking I mean it'll
grab a hold of something you're not
going to drop it and a tip I'm going to
give you right now if you're cooking in
the Dutch oven and the wind's blowing
don't take the lid off going toward the
wind take the lid off the other day
Direction
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look at all all that and folks it is May
here in Oklahoma and it's probably 75°
maybe we got a little soup going on ice
cream makes soup here pretty quick but
it serves the point I got I got quick
pictures though so I think I'm okay but
you seen me we reserved about a cup of
that little broth we started with over
there for the sauce and I want you to
thicken that right there at the last
because you see how much this is cooked
down and that's sort of the way I like
it it gives that syrupy effect right
there on the bottom that's going to be
sticking to everything get you about 2
to three tablespoons of corn starch add
you a little cold water mix it up well
pour it over there in that sauce as it
has come to a low Bowl let it thicken
that Apple you can see in there that
gooiness I mean and that goo has just
come with it so I'm going to have a bite
we get this flipped area when to lose
none of it before we go to the ice
cream oh that was a quick one
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folks everybody in the neighborhood will
be saying can I have this recipe let's
get this for the ice cream
disappears oh another
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dance M that is good that must be good I
got two dances come here come on you're
the only one here today come on with
it well you seen me with cooking long
there over here and got me a fork out of
the choke box and went over there you
can lift that bottom up remember there
is a liquid under there if you'll pay
attention and not run out of all your
liquid that you're cooking with you're
not going to burn the bottom of that cuz
you're sitting in a bath you are but you
can just take that fork peel them up
here to where you can see that bottom to
get them the the color you want that top
oven was cooking pretty fast so I took
it Plum off to slow down there just a
minute and the top was as brown as I
needed it to be but right there at the
last I needed for that juice to thicken
up even just a little more in the bottom
so I just set it right directly back on
there to give it a flash of heat to
where we could get that good thick
caramelization that we need out of this
juice there in the bottom we thank y'all
so much from the bottom of our heart for
tuning in on every one of our videos we
just ask you to be sure share with your
neighbors the video let them know that
it's going on because who don't want to
make some of these apple dumplings and
remember what I told you I'm counting on
you to make them I want you to send me a
picture because folks they're so easy to
cook they are but it is with great pride
honor and privilege that I TI my hat to
all our service men and women for
keeping that old flag of flying over
there we commend you each and every one
we do and folks a lot of us might be
going through hard times a lot of us
might not think we're going to make it
but we always can because when a storm
approaches remember you can do two
things you can cry about it and get wet
in the rain or you can go dance in the
rain I think that that's what you do
when a storm is coming you just Bear
Down know that we're counting on you
because I know y'all are counting on us
God bless you each and every one and
I'll see you what with a big hug and
down the apple dumpling
Trail okay so we don't normally do
makeup but you got into some branches
and you scratch up your nose a little
bit so I'm just going to firewood done
it does it hurt
yeah I feel wonderful I feel like I've
been made over okay so I'm going to put
this at the end of the video uhhuh and
then I want want to know like if people
could tell that you were wearing makeup
now that they've watched the video and
didn't know they need to comment below
to see if they could tell that you were
wearing makeup