Peel, core and slice good cooking apples set aside. Use a regular pie pastry recipe. Make some big walnut size clumps, roll our and place a pile of the sliced apples in the center of pastry. Dot with butter and put 1 teaspoon of sugar and nutmeg mixture. Fold corners of pastry up over pile of apples and form a dumpling. Place each dumpling in a baking dish.

2 c. water
1 c. sugar
1 stick butter
1 tsp. cinnamon

Boil for 8 minutes. Pour over dumplings. Bake in modern oven at 350 degrees until apples are tender and crust is brown.

Note: if cooked apples are used cook until crust is brown.