Elma Composto

Ingredients

• half a dozen medium-sized apples
• sugar
• a little water

Method

1. 1

   Pare and core apples, fill holes with sugar, place in a closed jar with water, and bake in a hot oven for half an hour.

2. 2

   Serve with syrup.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Elma Composto (Stewed Apples) Hind Taouk Rostossi (Roast Turkey) Bamia Haiwa (Stewed Okras) (Stewed Quinces) Yalandji Dolma (Rice Timbales) Adjem Kiftassi Kimali Beurek {Mutton Croquettes) (Rissoles of Chicken) Sudlash Khoshab (Rice Pudding) (Stewed Raisins) Peinir (Bread and Cheese) Fakihat (Fruit) 47 BANQUETS OF THE NATIONS Pirindj Tchorbassi. (Rice Soup.) Prepare two quarts of good mutton stock ; melt in an enamelled pan two ounces of butter, then put in one small cucumber, peeled and finely sliced, one large stock of lettuce, or two small ones, finely shred ; cook for ten minutes, being careful to keep them from brown- ing. Mix one tablespoonful of flour with a little of the stock, add to the vegetables, then all the stock, with the addition of four cupfuls of boiled rice, and simmer all together for fifteen minutes. Kuzi Rostossi. (Roast Lamb.) If you cannot get a whole young lamb, take a fore- quarter ; take out first, all the ribs, then the breast-bone ; slit up and take out the shoulder-blade, then the shank- bone to the first joint. Make a good stuffing of boiled rice and the minced liver. Season with chopped onions, pepper and salt ; stuff the shoulder well, and sew up so that stuffing may not escape. Roast about an hour and a half, basting it well with some melted butter and its own dripping. Serve with bread. Baklava. (Pastry with honey.) Take six ounces of wheat flour and fry in six ounces of butter. Then make a syrup of six ounces of sugar and put fifteen grains of essence of lemon in it. When it becomes very thick, spread it on a big plate, and when cold make a hollow in it and put the fried flour therein, 48 ARMENIA also the butter. Grease your hands and spread the whole over a big plate. When the plate is all covered, wrap it together, and pull it with both hands into thin threads, and then roll the threads into rolls two fingers in thickness, and one in length. Place them in the oven to brown, and pour over hot melted honey. Elma Composto. (Stewed Apples.) Pare and core half a dozen medium - sized apples. Sprinkle well, and fill up the hole with sugar. Put in a closed jar with a little water

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.