[Sca-cooks] Apples

[Elaine Koogler]

You know, this sounds a lot like a recipe that I learned years ago from
Viscount Sir Bryetor Aison of Devon, now residing somewhere in
Trimaris.  He would take apples, core them and fill them with raspberry
jam/preserves, enrobe them in pastry, usually puff, and bake
them...though he didn't do the thing with the meringue.  I can tell you
these are really wonderful!!!

Kiri

johnna holloway wrote:

> I have used the bombard apples from Mrs. Blencowe.
>
> Nanna submitted it on the web to a site, so I have
> copied that here to save the re-typing.
> BOMBARD APPLES
>
> Recipe taken from the Recipe Book
>  of Anne Blencowe, written in 1694
>
> 1 large apple for each person
> 2 or 3 crystallized apricots or some good apricot jam
> puff pastry (allow 2 oz. for each apple to be enclosed)
> white of eggs (allow 1 to every 2 apples)
> about 6 oz caster sugar
> 2 teaspoons orange juice
>
> Peel and core the apples and fill with the cut-up
> apricots or apricot jam.  Roll the puff pastry very
>  thin, cut in large squares, one
> for each apple, and enrobe them. Bake for 10 minutes
> at 450 F, then reduce the heat to 350 F. Cook a further
>  15 minutes.
> Meanwhile, beat the egg whites with the orange juice
>  and sugar until they hold a peak. As soon as you take
>  out the apples, pile
> this meringue over them, so that it runs down
> the sides. They should look like snowballs. Pull them
> in the warming drawer of
> your cooker, to set the meringue without colouring,
> and after about 2 hours, take them out and let them get quite cold
> before
> serving. They should be eaten with cream.
>
> "They make a very pretty side dish", says Mrs. Blencowe.
>
> Bibliography - Historical Receipts C-2
> Recipe submitted by Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir
>
> Fettiplace discusses tarts and pies. There are also
> a variety of things like apple jellies, creams, pastes, pancakes
> and comfits that can be done with apples.
>
> Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway
>
> DeeWolff at aol.com wrote:>
> > Anybody got any good period apple recipes other that applemuse?
> > > Andrea
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Elaine Koogler

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