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Baked Apples

A simple oven-baked apple dish cooked slowly with water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Baked Apples

Oven, in the book's wordsA very slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a very slow oven”. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Wash the apples.

  2. Prick the skins with a sharp needle.

Bake

  1. Add a little water to a baking dish.

  2. Place the apples in the dish.

  3. Bake in a slow oven at 300°F (150°C) until tender.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Apples
Provide the main body of the dish, softening as they bake until tender.

The step that matters

Prick the skins with a sharp needle. Pricking the skin lets steam escape during baking, which helps prevent the apples from bursting.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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