Apple charlotte
Baked dessert lined with buttered bread slices and filled with sugar-cooked apples
Ingredients
stale bread
2 lb (960 g)
apples (preferably dessert)
2 lb (960 g)
sugar
6 oz (180 g)
butter or margarine
8 oz (240 g)
lemon rind or a clove (Grated)
Instructions
1
Prepare apples
Peel, core, and wash the apples. Cut into fairly thick slices and place in the pan with about 1 oz (30 g) butter, the sugar, and the lemon rind or clove.
2
Cook apples
Do not add any water. Simmer apples gently until barely cooked.
3
Prepare bread
Cut the bread into slices approximately 1/4 in (6 mm) thick and remove the crusts.
4
Cut circles
Cut out circles of bread, one to fit the top and one to fit the bottom of the moulds.
5
Line moulds
Melt the butter or margarine and dip one side of the rounds which have been cut for the base. Place these rounds fat-side down in the moulds.
