BAKED APPLES

A quick substitute for apple pie

Ingredients

• 4 green apples (crispy, tart, medium sized!Granny Smiths are good)
• 3 in. stick cinnamon, broken and ground (use a coffee grinder.) Alternative: 1 1/4 tsp powdered cinnamon.
• 14 allspice berries, ground the same way (makes interesting coffee afterwards). Alternative: 1/2 tsp allspice.
• 1/8 tsp grated nutmeg
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 3 Tbsp butter (grate if cold)
• juice of 1/2 medium lemon
• 3/4 cup golden raisins
• 1/4 cup dried pitted prunes
• 3/4 cup chopped walnuts (or other nuts)

Procedure

1. Preheat oven to Butter a deep baking dish that has a lid.
2. Core the apples but do not peel them. Arrange them in the dish. Cut apples to fit, if necessary.
3. Combine all remaining ingredients in bowl. Mix well (this is where grating the butter comes in handy). Stuff this mixture into the holes and spaces in and between the apples.
4. Bake covered at for about 30 minutes. Serve hot with vanilla ice cream (spoon extra sauce over ice cream).

Rating

Contributor

 
Jeff Winslow 
Tektronix Inc., Design Automation Group, Beaverton Oregon 
jeffw@midas.UUCP  
 

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Subject: RECIPE: Baked apples
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Date: 27 Apr 86 03:49:26 GMT
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