Name: Baked Apples
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: ½ cup (90 g/3 oz) brown sugar (demerara sugar); 1 vanilla bean; 1 cup (155 g/5 oz) sultanas (golden raisins); 125 g (4 oz) softened unsalted butter; ⅓ cup (60 g/2 oz) slivered almonds; 1 teaspoon grated orange rind; 2 dried figs cut into small dice; ¼ cup (60 mL/2 fl oz) Cognac or brandy; pinch of ground cinnamon; pinch of nutmeg; 6 cooking apples, Granny Smiths or Pink Ladies; ⅓ cup (90 g/3 oz) white granulated sugar; 350 mL/11½ fl oz white wine; ¼ cup (60 mL/2 fl oz) muscat

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fine Family Cooking

By Tony Bilson

Published 1994

About

The ultimate comfort food, I have included this recipe for young cooks who may have been deprived of the sense of overindulgence these apples give.

Ingredients

6 cooking apples, Granny Smiths or Pink Ladies

Method

Core the apples and cut the skin to prevent it splitting during cooking, by scoring it with a sharp knife through to the flesh around the circumference. You can also score the apples in four small diagonals from the top of the apple in the shape of a cross.

Place all the ingredients for the stuffing in a bowl, mix together, cover with plastic wrap (cling film) and leave to macerate over