Danish Apple and Cookie Crumb Dessert

In this Danish dessert, apples are layered with cookie crumbs and baked until they meld together, with a crisped top layer (the “veil”).

This is actually an amalgamation of two similar apple-and-crumb recipes from unrelated sources: a Danish dessert made with rye bread crumbs and Vincent La Chapelle’s 1744 dessert, made with a spiced apple “marmalade” and crumbled “biskets.”

This is one of the simplest and best of the crisp/brown Betty genre.