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 BAKED APPLES


 * MATERIALS

2 large perfect apples

½ cup sugar


 * UTENSILS

Baking-dish

Apple-corer

Vegetable-knife

DIRECTIONS
 * 1) Wash the apples and remove the cores.
 * 2) Put the apples in a baking-dish, fill the hollow centres of the apples with sugar, and sprinkle the remaining sugar around the apples in the baking-dish.
 * 3) Pour ½ cup of water into the baking-dish around the apples, and set the dish in a slow oven to bake from thirty to forty-five minutes, or until the apples are tender and slightly browned.
 * 4) Take the dish from the oven, and let the apples cool before serving.

REMARKS Baked apples are sometimes served with roast pork, in which case they should be hot.

A few raisins and a little spice may be put into the hollow centres of the apples before baking, if desired. 