BUTTERSCOTCH APPLES RECIPE
5 apples 2/3 cupful brown sugar 1/2 cupful water 3/4 cupful milk 1/2 tablespoonful cornstarch 1/8 teaspoonful salt 1/2 to 1 tablespoonful butter 1/2 teaspoonful vanilla
Wash the apples, and cut them into quarters, pare and core them. Into a saucepan put the sugar and water, and heat. When the syrup boils, add the apples. Cover and boil gently until the apples are tender. Remove the apples from the syrup with a skimmer or a wire eggbeater, placing the fruit in sherbet glasses or other suitable dishes for serving. In another pan, mix the milk and cornstarch thoroughly. Stir and cook until the mixture reaches the boiling point, then add it to the syrup in which the apples were cooked. Boil for a few minutes. Add the salt, butter, and vanilla. Stir these into the mixture, then pour the sauce over the apples. Serve Butterscotch Apples hot or cold for a dessert.
BAKED APPLES.
Take a dozen fine large juicy apples, and pare and core them; but do not cut them in pieces. Put them side-by-side into a large baking-pan, and fill up with brown sugar the holes from whence you have extracted the cores. Pour into each a little lemon-juice, or a few drops of essence of lemon, and stick in every one a long piece of lemon-peel evenly cut. Into the bottom of the pan put a very little water, just enough to prevent the apples from burning. Bake them about an hour, or till they are tender all through, but not till they break. When, done, set them away to get cold. If closely covered they will keep, two days. They may be eaten at tea with cream. Or at dinner with boiled custard poured over them. Or you may cover them with, sweetened cream flavored with a little essence of lemon, and whipped to a froth. Heap the froth over every apple so as to conceal them entirely.
SPICED BAKED APPLES
5 apples 5 tablespoonfuls sugar Water 1 lemon Whole cloves
Wash and core the apples. They may be pared if desired. Stick 2 or 3 whole cloves in each apple. Place the apples in a baking-dish, put 1 tablespoonful of sugar in the cavity of each apple, and a slice of lemon on the top. Add enough water to cover the bottom of the baking-dish. Cover, bake at 400 degrees F. until soft. Serve cold. If the apples are very sour, more sugar should be used.
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