Creamed Apple Pie

Ingredients

• as many baking apples as your dish will hold
• sufficient sugar to sweeten them
• not more than a teacupful of water
• an edging of puff paste

Method

1. 1

   Prepare the apples by cutting and coring them, mix with sugar, lemon peel, cloves, and a little water.

2. 2

   Place in a pie dish with an edging of puff paste and cover with a thin crust.

3. 3

   Bake until the apples are soft.

4. 4

   After cooling, cover with boiled custard and decorate with baked pastry ornaments.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The confectioner's and pastry-cook's guide, or, Confectionery made easy ... (1890) by George Read, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CREAMED APPLE PIE. Tare, cut in quarters, and core, as many baking apples as your dish will hold ; mix in sufficient sugar to sweeten them ; grate in some lemon peel, put in four or live cloves, and a little, but not more than a teacup- ful, of water ; put an edging of puff paste

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