Sauce:
1 ½ C water
1 C brown sugar
2 T butter
1 t vanilla
½ t salt

Dumplings:
1 ½ C flour
¼ C sugar
¾ t baking powder
½ C milk
2 T canola oil
1 t vanilla
1 C diced apples

Combine sauce ingredients in a large saucepan.  Bring to a boil.  Combine ingredients for dumplings and drop by heaping spoons into the boiling sauce.  Reduce to low, cover, cook until the dumplings pass a toothpick test:  about 10 min.  Serve warm with ice cream.
This recipe is brought to you from the kitchen of Latigo Guest Ranch.