Prune and Apple Stuffing

At the Food52 launch party, Tamio gave Merrill and me a great little book, "The Metropolitan Cook Book," published by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1924. Little did Tamio know we have a thing for old recipes -- we've spent the past 5 years testing more than 1,200 New York Times recipes going back to the 1850s. Many of the Metropolitan recipes mirror those in the Times in the 1920s. There are potato croquettes, oyster chowder, Apple Snow (an apple-scented meringue dessert), brownies, doughnuts, iced coffee and this recipe for Prune and Apple Stuffing. If you'd like to update the recipe, add a teaspoon of chopped fresh thyme, 1 cup chicken broth and a few splashes of brandy.