Aunt Gertie's Noodle Kugel

Mix together:

• 4 large cooking apples: peel, quarter, remove core and slice thin
• 4 eggs, slightly beaten with fork
• Maple syrup: 1/4 cup (can use pancake syrup)
• Golden raisins: 1/2 cup
• Butter or margarine: 3 tablespoons, melted
• Vanilla extract: 1 teaspoon (real if possible) (I like to use several times this much)
• Cinnamon: 1/2 teaspoon
• Lemon juice: 1 1/2 tablespoons (real if possible)
• Orange juice: 1/2 cup (reconstituted frozen or fresh)
• Corn flakes: 1/2 cup crushed (or other flake cereal)

and prepare:

• Noodles: 12 oz pack of fine noodles, cook, drain, add to above mixture

Put the mixture in a greased casserole dish.  Top with a mixture of the following:

• Corn flakes: 2/3 cup crushed
• Sugar: 1/3 cup
• Cinnamon: 1/2 teaspoon
• Chopped nuts: 1/2 cup (pecans or walnuts)

Bake at 325 degrees for 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until top is nicely brown.  I often have trouble with the nuts burning before the kugel is ready; in order to avoid this, I cover it loosely with a sheet of aluminum foil for the first half-hour.

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