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Recipe for "apple-bake"

NAME

     APPLE-BAKE - A quick substitute for apple pie

INGREDIENTS (Serves 4)

     4         green apples (crispy, tart, medium  sized - Granny
               Smiths are good)
     8 cm      stick cinnamon, broken and ground  (use  a  coffee
               grinder.)  Alternative: 7 ml powdered cinnamon.
     14        allspice  berries,  ground  the  same  way  (makes
               interesting coffee afterwards).  Alternative: 5 ml
               allspice.
     1 ml      grated nutmeg
     100 g     brown sugar
     45 g      butter (grate if cold)
               juice of 1/2 medium lemon
     120 g     golden raisins
     65 g      dried pitted prunes
     100 g     chopped walnuts (or other nuts)

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Preheat oven to 200 deg. C.  Butter a deep  baking
               dish that has a lid.
          (2)  Core the apples but do not peel them. Arrange them
               in the dish. Cut apples to fit, if necessary.
          (3)  Combine all remaining  ingredients  in  bowl.  Mix
               well  (this  is  where grating the butter comes in
               handy). Stuff this  mixture  into  the  holes  and
               spaces in and between the apples.
          (4)  Bake covered at 200 deg. C for about  30  minutes.
               Serve  hot  with  vanilla  ice  cream (spoon extra
               sauce over ice cream).

RATING

     Difficulty: easy.  Time: 10 minutes preparation, 30  minutes
     cooking.  Precision: measure the spices.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Jeff Winslow
     Tektronix Inc., Design Automation Group, Beaverton Oregon
     jeffw@midas.UUCP