Apple Bread

Thanks to Tracey for this recipe!!

Ingredients:
2 Tbsp butter
1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 apple
a few raisins
1 package active dry yeast
3/4 cup warm water (about 105 degrees)
1 tsp salt
1 cup flour, 1 1/4 cups flour
1 egg
1/4 cup shortening

Melt butter in 9x9 baking pan. Mix 1/2 cup sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon in a small bowl (or use cinnamon sugar if you've already got a mixture). Sprinkle sugar mixture on melted butter in pan. Cut the apple into thin slices. Arrange apple slices in rows on sugar mixture in pan. Sprinkle a few raisins over the apples.

Stir together with spoon in large bowl the yeast and 3/4 cup warm water. Add 1/4 cup sugar, 1 tsp salt and 1 cup flour. If the flour is self-rising you don't need salt. Beat 2 minutes or until the batter drops from spoon in sheets. Add and beat until smooth 1 egg, 1/4 cup shortening, and 1 1/4 cups flour. Drop batter by small spoonfuls over apples and raisins in pan. Cover pan and let rise in warm place until double, 50-60 minutes.

Heat oven to 375. Bake 30-35 minutes or until brown. Immediately remove cake from pan by turning upside down onto serving plate.

What I did differently from the recipe:
I didn't use raisins because I had everything else in the pantry. Raisins would definitely have been good though!

What I'll do differently next time:
Nothing.

Verdict:
Thumbs up!! I ate 1/3 of this by myself and Stephen ate almost the rest. It was so good I immediately made another one with pears! This was such an easy recipe too!

$$:
Free - well, obviously not technically. Mom gave me the apple so it was free and everything else was in my pantry. This shouldn't be an expensive recipe though.

Printable version:
Ingredients:
2 Tbsp butter
1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 apple
a few raisins
1 package active dry yeast
3/4 cup warm water (about 105 degrees)
1 tsp salt
1 cup flour, 1 1/4 cups flour
1 egg
1/4 cup shortening

Melt butter in 9x9 baking pan . Mix 1/2 cup sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon in a small bowl (or use cinnamon sugar if you've already got a mixture). Sprinkle sugar mixture on melted butter in pan. Cut the apple into thin slices. Arrange apple slices in rows on sugar mixture in pan. Sprinkle a few raisins over the apples.

Stir together with spoon in large bowl the yeast and 3/4 cup warm water. Add 1/4 cup sugar, 1 tsp salt and 1 cup flour. If the flour is self-rising you don't need salt. Beat 2 minutes or until the batter drops from spoon in sheets. Add and beat until smooth 1 egg, 1/4 cup shortening, and 1 1/4 cups flour. Drop batter by small spoonfuls over apples and raisins in pan. Cover pan and let rise in warm place until double, 50-60 minutes.

Heat oven to 375. Bake 30-35 minutes or until brown. Immediately remove cake from pan by turning upside down onto serving plate.