COMPOTE OF APPLES ((Soyer's Recipe,--a Dessert Dish.))

Ingredients

• 6 ripe apples
• 1 lemon
• 1/2 lb lump sugar
• 1/2 pint water
• COMPÔTE OF APPLES.]

Instructions

1. Select the apples of a moderate size, peel them, cut them in halves, remove the cores, and rub each piece over with a little lemon.
2. Put the sugar and water together into a lined saucepan, and let them boil until forming a thickish syrup, when lay in the apples with the rind of the lemon cut thin, and the juice of the same.
3. Let the apples simmer till tender;
4. then take them out very carefully, drain them on a sieve, and reduce the syrup by boiling it quickly for a few minutes.
5. When both are cold, arrange the apples neatly on a glass dish, pour over the syrup, and garnish with strips of green angelica or candied citron.
6. Smaller apples may be dressed in the same manner: they should not be divided in half, but peeled and the cores pushed out with a vegetable-cutter.