Windy Hill Orchard
Past Recipes from Catherine's Kitchen


Apple Cranberry Pie

1 12 oz. package of fresh or thawed frozen cranberries
1/2 cup of apple cider
4 large Granny Smith Apples
2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
3 tablespoons of cornstarch
1 tablespoon of ground cinnamon
"Pinch" of ground cloves and allspice
pastry for 9" inch pie pan (top and bottom)
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. In a quart saucepan, heat cranberries and cider to boiling over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until cranberries have popped, but before mixture becomes saucy. Remove from heat. In a large bowl toss apples with sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice. Pour into pastry lined pie pan. Place top pastry over pie pan. Pinch edges and pierce top of crust.

Crock Pot Apple Butter

2 cups fresh apple cider
4 to 5 pounds of tart apples, peeled , cored and sliced
3 cups of sugar
2 tsp. Cinnamon

Combine apples and cider in crockpot cover and cook on low 10 hours stir in sugar and spices continue cooking 1 hour pour into hot sterilized jars and seal.

Country Style Ribs and Sauerkraut

32 ounce bag of sauerkraut,drained
4 or 5 boneless countrystyle pork ribs
1 cup of fresh apple cider
3 medium tart apples, peeled and sliced
1 TBSP. Caraway seeds, optional
Layer ribs,kraut and apples into crockpot. Pour apple cider over all and sprinkle with caraway seeds cover. Cook on low 8 hours or high 4 hours.

Apple Cider Pound Cake

3 cups of sugar
1-1/2 cups of shortening
6 eggs
3 cups of flour
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of apple pie spice
1 cup fresh apple cider
1 teaspoon of vanilla

Cream sugar and shortening well - add 1 egg at a time. (Beat well after each egg.) Add flour and cider - start with flour and end with flour. Bake in well-greased 10 inch tube pan at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cake sit in pan for 10 or 15 minutes before turning out cake.

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