Brown Betty

Ingredients

• Cover the bottom of a baking dish with bread crumbs
• a layer of thinly sliced tart apples
• thickly with sugar
• small pieces of butter
• cinnamon
• nutmeg
• three-quarters of a cup of molasses

Method

1. 1

   Layer bread crumbs and sliced apples in a baking dish, sprinkling with sugar, butter, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

2. 2

   Repeat layers and top with crumbs and butter.

3. 3

   Pour molasses thinned with hot water over all.

4. 4

   Bake until apples are tender and top is browned.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Joe Tilden's recipes for epicures (1907) by Joe Tilden, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Brown Betty Cover the bottom of a baking dish with bread crumbs, over which place a layer of thinly sliced tart apples. Sprinkle thickly with sugar and 114 DESSERTS AND CAKES small pieces of butter, cinnamon and nutmeg, then cover with bread crumbs and repeat the layers until the dish is filled, having a layer of crumbs sprinkled with bits of butter on top. Then pour over all three-quarters of a cup of molasses

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