Apple Charlotte

Ingredients

• some cooking apples
• some very thin slices of crumb of bread
• a few lumps of butter
• some sugar

Method

1. 1

   Cut some cooking apples in very thin slices.

2. 2

   Place some very thin slices of crumb of bread at the bottom of a pie-dish, then a layer of the apples, a few lumps of butter; sprinkle with sugar.

3. 3

   Fill the pie-dish with alternate layers of apple, bread, butter, and sugar.

4. 4

   Bake about an hour; turn out of the dish, and serve hot or cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Wholesome cookery (1887) by Marie de Joncourt, page 53. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Apple Charlotte. Cut some cooking apples in very thin slices. Place some very thin slices of crumb of bread at the bottom of a pie-dish, then a layer of the apples, a few lumps of butter ; sprinkle with sugar. Fill the pie-dish with alternate layers of apple,, bread, butter, and sugar. Bake about an hour ; turn out of the dish, and serve hot or cold. 376. — Open Apple Tart. Peel and core some apples ; cut them up ; j)ut them in a saucepan, with a good-sized lump of butter, some finely chopped lemon-peel, and some sugar

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