Baked apples

• 4 even-sized cooking apples
• castor sugar (see recipe)
• 1 oz (25 g

Plan the cooking so you can serve baked apples straightaway; they collapse if left to stand. Heat the oven to 350°F (180°C) or gas no. 4. Remove the cores from the apples keeping apples whole. Run the tip of a sharp knife round the middle of each one to cut the skin. If you take care to make the cut meet neatly as you bring the knife around, the apples will rise beautifully when baked and the s