Pommes Surprise

Name: Pommes Surprise (Baked Apples with Raisins, Honey, and Rum)
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 12 almonds (with skins left on), chopped or slivered; 6 tablespoons apricot preserves or red currant jelly; 6 tablespoons apricot preserves or red currant jelly; 6 large Rome Beauty apples; rind of 1 lemon, grated; juice of 1 lemon; 6 tablespoons honey; 3 tablespoons dark rum

Baked Apples with Raisins, Honey, and Rum

Preparation info

For
6
people

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cuisine of the Sun

By Mireille Johnston

Published 1990

About

This is a simple country dessert made with simple ingredients. You can make it more sophisticated by replacing the honey and the preserves with fresh strawberry or raspberry purée.

Ingredients

1 cup raisins
3 tablespoons dark rum
6 large Rome Beauty apples

Europe
France
Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

In a bowl, soak the raisins in the rum for 1 hour. Preheat the oven to 375°. Wash and core the apples, but don’t peel them. Cut off a thin strip at the base so the apples will remain upright. Put them in a baking dish and fill the center with the raisins and the rum and the grated lemo