Compote of Apples

Ingredients

• a dozen golden pippins
• a cupful of water
• a pound of sugar
• a few drops of the essence of vanilla or lemon

Method

1. 1

   Pare and core the apples.

2. 2

   Place them in a deep dish with water, sugar, and essence.

3. 3

   Cover and bake until cooked through.

4. 4

   Serve with custard or cream.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 156. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a dozen golden pippins. Cut pieces of bread in roimds large enough for an apple to stand upon, and place them in a well- buttered dish with an apple upon eaoh. Fill the holes with butter and sugar. Bake them in a gentle oven until tender, then put them upon a hot dish with a little apricot jam on the top of each, and cover with sifted sugar. Time to bake, thirty minutes. Probable cost, lOd. Allow one for each person. Apples, Buttered (another method). — Place half a dozen good boiling apples, pared and cored -^dthout dividing, in a saucepan •^\'ith a piece of butter the size of an egg. First put in the holes where the cores were a little sugar and a clove: stew them very gently, turning them now and then, until they are quite tender. Cover the bottom of a glass dish with a layer of marmalade {See Apple Marmalade), lay the apples gently on it, put a little red currant jelly on the' top of each one, and strew over them sifted sugar and powdered cinnamon. Time to bake, twenty-five minutes. Probable cost, 8d. Sufficient for six persons. Apples, Clear. — Put half a pound of sugar into a saucepan with a pint of water and the rind and j nice of two lemons. Let it re- main on the fire imtil the scimi rises, then put in half a dozen large apples, pared, cored, and quartered. Let them simmer gently, leaving the lid oif tke.^, saucepan, imtil the apples are clear. Time to boil, about twenty minutes. Probable cost, lOd. Sufficient for six persons. Apples, Compote of.— Pare a dozen goLlcn pippins, or any other finely-flavoured apples, and scoop out the core withorit breaking them. Place them in a deep dish with a cupful of water, a poimd of sugar, and a few di'ops of the essence of vanilla or lemo

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