Baked Apples - American Recipe

Baked Apples

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Baking-dish, Apple-corer, Vegetable-knife

Classic American baked apples — simple, satisfying home baking.

Ingredients

• 2 large perfect apples
• ½ cup sugar

Method

1. Wash — the apples and remove the cores.
2. Put — the apples in a baking-dish, fill the hollow centres of the apples with sugar, and sprinkle the remaining sugar around the apples in the baking-dish.
3. Pour — ½ cup of water into the baking-dish around the apples, and set the dish in a slow oven to bake from thirty to forty-five minutes, or until the apples are tender and slightly browned.
4. Take — the dish from the oven, and let the apples cool before serving.

Tags: sugar, apple · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

Baked apples are sometimes served with roast pork, in which case they should be hot. A few raisins and a little spice may be put into the hollow centres of the apples before baking, if desired.