Pommes à la Châtelaine (Apples à la Châtelaine)

Ingredients

• Apples of medium size
• Butter
• Mi-sucre cherries
• Apricot purée
• Crème frangipane
• Macaroons and biscuits
• Melted butter

Instructions

1. Peel medium-sized apples and prepare them as for Pommes à la Bonne-femme.
2. Dress them on a buttered dish.
3. Fill the hollows with a salpicon of mi-sucre cherries bound with apricot purée.
4. Cover them with light Crème frangipane.
5. Sprinkle with macaroons and biscuits crushed to crumbs, then with melted butter.
6. Gratinate in a hot oven.