Title: Amish apple dumplings
 Categories: Desserts, Fruits
      Yield: 6 Servings
 
      6    Apples, peeled and cored
           Lemon juice
    1/2 c  White sugar, approx
      1 ts Cinnamon
           Brown sugar
           Butter
      2    Pie pastry for 2 pies
           Sugar sauce:
      2 c  Water
    3/4 c  Sugar
      2 ts Vanilla
      2 tb Butter
    1/4 ts Nutmeg
    1/4 ts Mace
 
  Roll out pastry and cut into squares enough  to cover apples
  completely. Peel and core apples.  Roll in lemon juice. Then roll in
  white sugar and cinnamon combined. Place on pastry square. Stuff core
  cavity with brown sugar, butter, brown sugar in equal parts. (The
  amount depends on size of core cavity, just stuff full.) Fold pastry
  up around apple to completely enclose it.  Place in pan. Prepare
  sugar sauce by mixing water, sugar, vanilla, butter, nutmeg, and mace
  and boiling for 1 minute. Let cool slightly.  Pour over Apples. Bake
  in 375 F oven for 1 hour. Serve warm. Note:  Apples may be frozen in
  pastry (before sugar sauce is added) if desired.  Good dessert to
  make ahead if you have lots of apples around. Just let thaw when
  ready to use, and cover with sugar sauce and bake as usual.