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Peerless Baked Apples

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. 1 apple
  2. Cut
  3. Sugar
  4. Water
  5. Butter

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.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. 1 apple 2 tsp.
  2. sugar 1 tsp.
  3. Jelly 1 tsp.
  4. butter Wash and pare apple.
  5. Remove core, being careful not to cut through the blossom end.
  6. Place in a baking dish.
  7. Fill the cavity with jelly, sugar and butter.
  8. Cover bottom of dish with water.
  9. Bake in moderate oven, basting frequently with liquid in dish.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Baking dish
  • Chef's knife
  • Pastry brush
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Credit

From Practical cookery (1921), printed page 22, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cu31924050717192

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.