Fried Apples 'N' Onions

Reader Contribution by Sherry Leverich Tucker
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The evening air is a little chilly and a seat beside the campfire feels pretty good. Roaring River State Park in Missouri is beautiful this time of year and many people take advantage of it by camping at their great campgrounds.  My giant cast iron skillet sits in the coals full of chopped apples glazed with butter and brown sugar. As they cook the smell of the caramelizing apples mixed with the smell of the wood fire becomes mouthwatering! Fried apples are so good. While I sit there occasionally stirring the apples as they cook, one of the friends we are camping with mentions something about onions. Onions remind me of Almanzo Wilder’s favorite food; Fried Apples ‘n’ Onions. Just another cast iron skillet favorite!

Laura Ingalls Wilder writes all about good country food in The Farmer Boy, her book that recounts her husbands childhood.

 “They talked about spareribs, and turkey with dressing, and baked beans, and crackling cornbread, and other good things. But Almanzo said that what he liked most in the world was fried apples’n’onions.”

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