Apple Meringue

Ingredients

• 4 apples
• 2 ozs. of butter
• I ozs. of pounded sugar
• 1 tablespoonful of blackberry jam
• eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cut into quarters four apples, take out the core, and cut in slices.

2. 2

   Stew over a brisk fire for a quarter of an hour with two ounces of butter and two ounces of pounded sugar.

3. 3

   When cool add a tablespoonful of blackberry jam, or apricot, pile up in a dish and cover with the whites of two eggs whipped stiff, with three ounces of castor sugar.

4. 4

   Sprinkle more sugar over and bake for ten minutes till of a pale brown colour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Savouries and sweets suitable for luncheons and dinners (1886) by Mary L. Allen, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Apple Meringue. For Four or Five Persons. — 4 apples ; 2 ozs. of butter ; I ozs. of pounded sugar ; 1 tablespoonful of blackberry jam ; eggs

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