Apple Dumpling

A small Hearthfire pastry of two apples baked in flour that heals a little and briefly makes your arrows hit harder.

The Apple Dumpling is a light baked treat added by the Hearthfire add-on (Hearthfire). It pairs a green and a red apple in a flour dough, and at just 0.1 weight it is an easy snack to carry into a fight. Its real appeal is not the healing but the short combat bonus for archers.

Effects

  • Restores 5 Health
  • Bows do 5% more damage for 60 seconds

The heal is tiny, so treat the dumpling as a quick buff to eat right before opening fire with a bow. The bonus lasts one minute, which is enough for a single encounter. Players focused on Archery get the most out of it.

How to make it

Bake it at a Hearthfire home oven, such as the one in a homestead like Lakeview Manor, Windstad Manor or Heljarchen Hall. One batch gives one dumpling and needs:

Where to find it

The available data only lists the oven recipe, so baking it yourself is the reliable way to get one. It is worth 3 gold, so it is not a dish to make for profit.

Good to know

Red Apple also goes into Apple Cabbage Stew at a cooking pot, so keep a few spare apples if you cook both.

Where to find it

  • Baked at a Hearthfire home oven (Hearthfire)

Crafting materials

1x Sack of Flour
1x Green Apple
1x Red Apple

Lore notes

Dropped by

Quest reward from

Where it appears

Heljarchen Hall in Skyrim (Hearthfire): homestead north of Whiterun near Loreius Farm – how to buy the land, its grain mill, resources and giant neighbours.
Lakeview Manor in Skyrim: the Hearthfire homestead above Lake Ilinalta – how to buy the plot in Falkreath, building materials, ore veins and the apiary.
Windstad Manor in Skyrim: the Hearthfire homestead on the marsh near Morthal – how to buy the plot, building materials, fish hatchery, housecarl and tips.

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Sources checked: Skyrim/DLC game files (food records, cooking and oven recipes); Elder Scrolls Fandom food and cooking articles