Baked apple
Ingredients
apple
sugar
butter
spice (optional)
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Equipment
baking tray
apple corer or small knife
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oven:
time in oven: 1 hour
preparation time:
coring apples
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Cooking process
- The apples should be fairly large. Remove the core wiithout damaging or cutting into the rest of the apple. You can use an apple corer to hollow out from stalk to bottom, right through the apple, or dig into the apple from both sides with a smaqll sharp knife, until you've removed the seeds and scaly bits.
- Fill the hole with butter and sugar, and spice if you want.
- Put the apples in the baking tray, with a little water round. Put the tray in the over and cook for about an hour, until the apples are soft. The water, the apple juices, and what leaks out from the butter and sugar make a liquid which you can pour over the apples. It's possible to eat, skin and all.
Comments
- This is my version of this very traditional recipe. Other stuffings include sultanas, etc, but I don't like soggy cooked sultanas.
- It's traditionally suggested that you have to eat it with something else, such as cream, or custard, or ice cream. Quite frankly, I think you can eat them alone.
Here is an alternative method. Peel the apple and chop into pieces. Put some sugar in a bowl (I prefer soft brown sugar, but as you will), and add the apple pieces, stirring them round to get slightly covered with the sugar. (This stops them getting dried out). Bake in an oven as above. Just as nice! And you're not retricted to one apple per person.
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