Baked Apples

Ingredients

• 8 apples
• ½ cup Crisco
• ½ cup brown sugar
• 4 tablespoons chopped citron peel
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• ½ cup water

Method

1. 1

   Core and peel 8 apples; fill centers with Crisco creamed with brown sugar, add chopped citron peel and lemon juice mixed together.

2. 2

   Mix sugar with water and brush over apples; sprinkle with crumbs browned in hot Crisco; bake for 20 minutes in moderate oven.

3. 3

   Serve cold with custard.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 145. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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