Ingredients
- 1 gill of water
- 2 lbs
- 1 lemon
Directions
2 lbs. apples. the rind of 1 lemon.
J lb. sugar. bread and clarified butter.
Take the apples, peel and cut them into slices ; put them in a stew-pan with the sugar and 1 gill of water; peel the lemon thinly ; tie it together with a thread and let it simmer with the apples about 1 hour, or till they are soft ; then lift out the lemon rind. Take a plain round tin, cut thin slices of bread and dip a piece, cut round, in the clarified butter ; line top of bowl ; cut some more of the bread into fingers ; line sides of bowl, being careful to overlap each slice ; fill the centre with the apples ; cut another round of bread ; dip in clarified fat, cover the apples with it, put into moderate oven and bake three-quarters of an hour or till bread is brown ; turn out carefully.