Stewed Apples 

Ingredients:

4 Apples

1/3 cup Sugar

1/2 cup Water

3 small Bay Leaves

Instructions:

Cut & core apples.  Leave peels on if you want, but at Blue Bank they don't. Then cut small pieces of the apple off of the core, not to waste any. Sprinkle sugar over bottom of a heavy pot. Let it melt and start turning brown. Add small pieces & scrapings from the apple cores and one or two finely diced apple. Cook until very soft about 5 - 10 minutes. Add water & bay leaves. Cook until apple looks like applesauce. Then add large quarters (or chunks) of apples and cook until tender.

From Blue Bank Restaurant at Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee.

As written down by Alice Ann (Poirrier) Broussard 

“Every one can cook. If you try. If you put a little love into it.” Chef Leah Case