Baked Apples

Name: Baked Apples
Ingredients: 5 tablespoons shelled walnuts or hazelnuts; 5 tablespoons shelled walnuts or hazelnuts; 2 tablespoons good dark runny honey; 8 fresh Medjool dates, roughly chopped; a good pinch of ground cloves; 1 level teaspoon ground cinnamon; 4 heaped tablespoons white breadcrumbs; a good grating of nutmeg; 4 tablespoons currants; 2 tablespoons candied peel; 4 medium Bramley apples; l00g butter; 4 tablespoons dark muscovado sugar; 3 tablespoons brandy, or to taste

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

What to Eat Now (Autumn & Winter)

By Valentine Warner

Published 2008

About

This is a pudding of abundance, like a bountiful pirate’s chest crammed with goodies. The Bramley is great for it, its tartness counteracted by the goodies.

Ingredients

5 tablespoons shelled walnuts or hazelnuts
8 fresh Medjool dates, roughly chopped
2

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. For the brandy butter, bring the butter to room temperature. Cream it in a bowl until pale. Beat in the sugar gradually, then add the brandy, a dribble at a time, so that it does not split.

Toast the walnuts in the oven until coloured, abo