Making an Apple Brown Betty is a lot like making an apple pie, but simpler. The apples are combined in a little butter and sugar until covered. Options such as raisins, currants, and lemon rind. Add some bread crumbs or oats to the mix. Use more butter and a little cinnamon as a crumble topping. These additions really take this dish to the next level. This recipe is from a 1946 cookbook.
Brown Betty
Making an Apple Brown Betty is a lot like making an apple pie, but simpler. The apples are combined in a little butter and sugar until covered. Options such as raisins, currants, and lemon rind. With some bread crumbs or oats, more butter, and a little cinnamon as a crumble topping, it really takes this dish to the next level. This recipe is from a 1946 cookbook.
Ingredients
Method
- Mix crumbs and butter.1 ½ cups bread crumbs, 3 tbsp butter melted
- Place one-third in the baking dish.
- Combine other ingredients.2 ½ cups apples, peeled and sliced, ¾ cup brown sugar, ¼ tsp cinnamon, ¼ tsp nutmeg, ¼ tsp salt, 1 tsp lemon rind, grated, 1 tsp vanilla, 2 tbsp water, ½ cup raisins or currants
- Place in a dish in two layers with crumbs between and on top. Cover.
- Bake in a moderately slow oven for about 30 to 45 minutes. Remove cover, brown top.
- Serve hot with hard sauce or cream.
Brown Betty recipe from The Universal Cookery Book: Practical Recipes for Household Use (1887)
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- 1 cup bread crumbs
- 2 cups sour apples, chopped
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tbsp butter, cut into small bits
- Butter a deep dish, and put a layer of chopped apple at the bottom.
- Sprinkle with Sugar, a few bits of butter, and cinnamon.
- Cover with bread-crumbs, then more apple.
- Proceed in this way until the dish is full, having a layer of crumbs on top.
- Cover closely, and steam for three-quarters of an hour in a moderate oven, then uncover and brown quickly.
- Eat warm with sugar and cream or sweet sauces. This is a cheap but good pudding.
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