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Apple Charlotte
From The hearthstone; or, Life at home, 1883
Serves 6
Use half a pound of butter for a middling-sized dish.
Presented as published in 1883. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 318. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Apple Charlotte. — Cut a sufficient number of thin slices of white bread to cover the bottom and line the sides of a baking dish, first rubbing it thickly with butter. Put thin slices of apples into the dish in layers till the dish is full, strewing sugar and bits of butter between. In the meantime, soak as many slices of bread as will cover the whole in warm milk, over which place a plate and a weight to keep the bread close upon the apples ; let it bake slowly for three hours. For a middling-sized dish, you should use half a pound of butter
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