Apples bonne femme

This is a simple baked apples dish but with one difference – the apples used are eating apples as opposed to cooking apples.

Preparation Time: 10 Mins

Cooking Time: 45 Mins

Total Time: 50 Mins

Ingredients

For 4 servings…

4                    Apples  - eating - cored          

60 gms            Butter       

60 gms            Sugar  - granulated   

10 gms            Sugar  - vanilla        

4                    Croûtons  - same size as the apples - fried in butter 

Method

Arrange the apples in an ovenproof dish.  Fill their insides with a mixture of the butter and sugars.  Put a little water in the bottom of the dish and bake in a fairly hot oven (180°C) for about 35 minutes.

Arrange the apples on the croûtons,

Wine recommendations

A sweet wine.

Conventional

     Pommeau de Normandie

Interesting

     Moscatel Sherry

     Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise

Adventurous

     Calvados