Apple Charlotte (My own Recipe)

Origin: Cape Town, South Africa

Source: Hildagonda J. Duckitt, 1891

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Butter a pie-dish.
  2. Place in it alternately a layer of bread-crumbs dotted with butter, slightly sprinkled with spice.
  3. Add a layer of sugar.
  4. Add a layer of apples.
  5. Continue layering, taking care to have a layer of crumbs at the top.
  6. Pour a wine-glass of wine over it.
  7. Place a tin cover over the dish for the first half-hour to steam it a little.
  8. Bake until a nice brown, which will take about one and a half hours.
  9. Turn out of the dish and serve hot.

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