- Prep Time:15 minutes
- Cook Time:75 minutes
- Serves:10
Here’s something delightful to serve during the holidays. A traditional dish served during Charles Dickens’ day.
Why try? This holiday sweet is packed with wholesome goodness of fruits and nuts.
Foodie Byte: Try placing the apples on the turkey platter for a lovely and tasty garnish.
This recipe is part of our “Dickens of a Dinner” feature that recreates some of the dishes mentioned in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” "For our story and more recipes, click here
Ingredients
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8 red apples (gala or rome beauty)
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2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
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½ cup finely chopped dried apricots
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4 tablespoons chopped pecans, toasted
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4 tablespoons packed dark brown sugar
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1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
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1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
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2 tablespoons softened unsalted butter
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4 tablespoons unsalted butter cut into 2 pieces
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1 cup apple cider
Preparation
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1
Preheat oven to 350°F.
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2
Core apples. Peel about 1/3 down the apple. Stand apples up in a large ceramic or glass pie plate and make 4 evenly spaced vertical cuts starting from top of each apple and stopping halfway from bottom to keep apple intact. Brush inside and outside of peeled apple with lemon juice.
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3
Toss together apricots, pecans, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a bowl. Rub softened butter into dried fruit mixture with your fingers until combined well. Pack center of each apple with mixture. Put a piece of remaining butter on top of each apple. Pour cider around apples and cover pie plate tightly with foil.
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4
Bake in middle of oven, basting once, until apples are just tender when pierced with a fork, about 45 minutes. Remove foil and continue to bake until apples are very tender but not falling apart, 20-30 minutes more.
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5
Transfer to serving dishes and spoon sauce over and around apples.
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