Fred Sauceman’s wife, Jill, is the only grandchild in her family who makes her late grandmother’s dried apple stack cake. The recipe for the cake is well over 100 years old. The cake calls for no ...

A traditional Appalachian treat that arrived by way of Germany, recipes for stack cakes — a tower of thin biscuit-like dough layered with fruit filling — are hard to find in modern cookbooks. You ...

Place dried apples in a saucepan; add water to cover. Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 25 to 30 minutes or until tender. Drain and mash apples. Stir in brown sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons ...

A couple of weeks ago, my husband and my staff allowed me to take a couple of days off to attend the Southern Food Writers Conference in Knoxville, Tenn. For two beautiful days I learned from cookbook ...

Both the folklore and history behind Appalachian stack cakes have always been a little romantic to me. The traditional dessert looks like a sky-high pile of thick pancakes spread with even thicker ...

1ST - Prepare Sauce: In a large heavy bottomed sauce pan, bring the apple cider to a boil. Continue to boil over medium high heat until reduced to about ½ cup. This will take 10-20 minutes. Stir in ...

Stack cake is the ultimate mountaineers' dessert -- a not too sweet, but satisfying and complexly flavored dessert made of 4-6 thin layers of molasses-tinged, biscuit-like cake covered with a dark, ...