Mammy's Baked Apples

Ingredients

• 6 large apples
• 6 thin slices lemon
• 1 cupful sugar
• 1/2 cupful water
• 1 tablespoonful cinnamon
• 3 tablespoonfuls butter

Method

1. 1

   Pare, core and quarter the ripe apples.

2. 2

   Place in a buttered baking dish, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, add the lemon slices and butter and pour on the water.

3. 3

   Cook on the stove long enough to form a heavy syrup.

4. 4

   This usually requires 15 minutes.

5. 5

   Place the cover on the dish and bake in a hot oven about 30 minutes.

6. 6

   Serve with lemon or vanilla pudding sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 cupful water % cupful sugar 1 lemon Put the sugar, water and the juice and rind of the lemon in a saucepan. Boil until the syrup thickens. Then add the pared and quartered apples and simmer until they are clear and trans- parent. Lift them from the syrup carefully and place in a large dish. Top with whipped cream. Apple Sauce 8 large apples % cupful sugar % cupful water Wash, pare and core the apples. Place them in a crock with water and sugar. Cover and bake until a pretty red in a slow oven. Mammy's Baked Apples 6 large apples 6 thin slices lemon 1 cupful sugar % cupful water 1 tablespoonful cinnamon 3 tablespoonfuls butter

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