Meringued Apples

Ingredients

• one quart water
• two large cups granulated sugar
• ten apples pared and cored
• one cup water
• grated rind and juice of one lemon
• yolks of six eggs and whites of two
• half cup powdered sugar
• one pint blanched almonds

Method

1. 1

   Boil water and sugar, then add apples and simmer until cooked.

2. 2

   Drain and cool.

3. 3

   Stew additional apples in water, mix with syrup, lemon, and simmer.

4. 4

   Prepare custard with milk, corn-starch, and eggs.

5. 5

   Arrange apples on a dish, fill gaps with marmalade, top with meringue and almonds, and brown in the oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 239. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Merinffued Apples. — Put one quart water and two large cups granulated sugar in saucepan. Have ten apples pared and cored, and as soon as sugar and water boils, put in as many apples aa will 288 FRUIT. cook without crowding. Simmer gently until fruit is cooked through, turning when one side is done. Drain and cool on a dish ; pare, quarter and stew six more apples in one cup water. Turn stewed apples into syrup left from cooking the others, add grated rind and juice of one lemon, and simmer twenty minutes or until a smooth marmalade is formed, then let cool, rut one quart milk in custard-kettle, reserving half a cup for mixing one tablespoon corn-starch, which stir in when milt is hot, and let cook five minutes. Beat yolks of six eggs and whites of two with half cup powdered sugar ; gradually pour boiling milk on this, return to Kettle and cook three minutes, stirring all the time, add salt, turn into bowl, and let cool ; place the whole apples in a mound on dish using the marmalade to fill up the spaces oetween the apples. Beat four whites to a stiff froth with four tablespoons powdered sugar, spread over apples, and stick one pint blanched almonds

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