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Baked Apples

A historical recipe from Paper-bag Cookery, by Serkoff, Vera, Countess (1911).

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A historical recipe

Paper-bag Cookery, by Serkoff, Vera, Countess (1911). Project Gutenberg eBook #41406.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a gill of water

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. are unsurpassed cooked in a paper bag.
  2. Simply wash the apples, or pare them if preferred, put into a greased bag with a gill of water, and bake forty minutes.
  3. Add sugar to taste.

Plating

Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Paper-bag Cookery, by Serkoff, Vera, Countess (1911). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #41406 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41406). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.