Apple Hedgehog

Ingredients

• two dozen large apples
• one dozen and a half more
• any bright-coloured jam
• sugar icing
• half a pound of blanched almonds

Method

1. 1

   Boil 24 apples to a smooth jam, sweetened with essence of almonds.

2. 2

   Boil 12.5 more apples in sugar and water until tender.

3. 3

   Fill hollowed apples with jam, arrange in layers to resemble a hedgehog, cover with icing, and stick almonds on top.

4. 4

   Bake to brown the almonds.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 146. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Apple Hedgehog. — Take two dozen large apples, pared and cored : boil them to a smooth jam, sweetened and flavoured with es- sence of ahnonds. Pare one dozen and a half more, scoop out the cores, and boil them in sugar and water until tender. Take them gently out of the saucepan, and fill the hollow in the middle of each with any bright-coloured jam, and arrange them on a dish, in two or three layers, as nearly as possible in the form of a hedgehog. Fill the empty space -with the jam, and make all smooth. Cover the whole with sugar icing, and stick almonds blanched and split thickly over it. Place the dish into a good oven, to make the apples hot and brown the almonds. Time to simmer, about half an hour. Sufficient for eight persons. Probable cost, 2s. 6d. Apple Hedgehog, Iced.— Dissolve in a well-lined saucepan eight ounces of good sugar with half a pint of water, and stew in the sjTup until tender a dozen or more good- sized apples, pared and cored. Drain them from the sugar, and pile them on a dish to resemble the form of a hedgehog. Slice eighteen or twenty good boiling apples, keep them over a very slow fire until they are a smooth, dry pulp, then fill in, so as to make an even surface, all the spaces between the apples, as well as the hollows from which the cores were taken, -with it. Spread it evenly all over with the back of a spoon. Make an icing ^\ath three eggs and three oimces of sifted sugar; whisk it to a solid froth, and lay on a thick coating, which must again be covered -s^-ith sifted sugar. Cut half a pound of blanched almonds

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