[Kitchen Witch]

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.



BUTTERED APPLES.

1 lb. of apples, 2 oz. of butter, ground cinnamon and sugar to taste. Pare, core, and slice the apples; heat the butter in a frying-pan, when it boils turn in the apples and fry them until cooked; sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, and serve on buttered toast.


APPLE TANSEY

Pare your Apples and cut them in thin round slices, then fry them in good sweet Butter, then take ten Eggs, sweet Cream, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Ginger, Sugar, with a little Rose-water, beat all these together, and pour it upon your Apples and fry it.


STEWED APPLES.

Take a dozen green tart apples, core and slice them, put into a saucepan with just enough water to cover them, cover the saucepan closely, and stew the apples until they are tender and clear; then take them out, put them into a deep dish and cover them; add to the juice in the saucepan a cupful of loaf sugar for every twelve apples, and boil it half an hour, adding to the syrup a pinch of mace and a dozen whole cloves just ten minutes before taking from the fire; pour
Scalding hot over the apples and set them in a cold place; eat ice cold with cream or boiled custard.


PRESERVED APPLES.

Take fine ripe pippin or bellflower apples. Pare and core them, and either leave them whole, or cut them into quarters. Weigh them, and to each pound of apples allow a pound of loafsugar. Put the apples into a stew-pan with just water enough to cover them, and let them boil slowly for about half an hour