Brown Betty

Ingredients

• two cups of tart apples
• sugar
• butter
• cinnamon
• breadcrumbs

Method

1. 1

   Chop apples, put a layer into a buttered dish, sprinkle with sugar, butter, and cinnamon; cover with breadcrumbs, and add more apple.

2. 2

   Continue till the dish is full, add a thick layer of crumbs, cover closely, and steam for nearly an hour in a slow oven.

3. 3

   Uncover and brown quickly.

4. 4

   Eat warm with sweet sauce or sugar and cream.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The standard book of recipes and housewife's guide, comprising as complete cook book (1901) by Johnson, Alice A.,, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Brown Betty. — Chop two cups of tart apples ; put a layer into a deep dish, but- tered ; sprinkle with sugar, and a little but- ter and cinnamon ; cover with breadcrumbs, and add more apple. Continue till the dish is full, add a thick la^^er of crumbs, cover closely, and steam for nearly an hour in a slow oven. Then uncover and brown quickly. Eat w^arm wdth sweet sauce, or sugar and cream. Cherry Roll. — Seed one quart fruit, sweeten to taste, let it simmer in its own juice until quite thick, pour one quart of milk over a loaf of grated bread, beat three eggs very light, and add the milk, with a little flour and large lump of butter

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