Brown Betty — baked apples with buttered bread
Layers of soft apples and buttered bread with a golden, crisp top.
Active time25 min
Cooking40 min
Total1 h
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Ingredients
- 1000 g cooking apples
- 80 g unsalted butter
- 75 g light brown sugar
- 10 slices of white wheat sandwich bread
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Reserve 5 g butter for the dish. Remove the bread crusts. Spread the slices with the remaining 75 g butter and cut into quarters. Peel and core the apples, then thinly slice the flesh.
1000 g cooking apples80 g unsalted butter10 slices of white wheat sandwich bread- oven
- knife
- chopping board
- vegetable peeler
Grease the dish with the reserved butter. Line the base with bread, butter-side down. Add half the apples and a third of the sugar. Cover with another bread layer, the remaining apples and another third of the sugar. Finish with the remaining bread, butter-side up, and the last third of the sugar.
75 g light brown sugar- 1.5 litre baking dish
- knife
Cover with foil and bake for 35 minutes. Remove the foil and bake for another 5 minutes, until the bread is golden and the apples yield to a knife. Serve hot.
- oven
- 1.5 litre baking dish
- foil
- knife
Allergens
- Milk
Composition to check for: Celery, Crustaceans, Eggs, Fish, Gluten, Lupin, Molluscs, Mustard, Tree nuts, Peanuts, Sesame, Soy, Sulphites.
Sources and credits
Photo: Au Menu — created with ImageGen at Roch’s request · Editorial permission from Roch for Au Menu; OpenAI terms
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