Apple Charlotte

Ingredients

• 500 g reinette apples
• 125 g powdered sugar
• crustless stale bread
• good fresh butter
• 1 piece cinnamon stick
• 1/2 count lemon

Instructions

1. Peel, quarter, seed and thinly slice the apples; drop into lemon water.
2. Cook the drained apples with the cinnamon stick, without water, adding sugar as they melt down; cook to a marmalade and remove the cinnamon.
3. Line a smooth round mold with butter-dipped bread slices, leaving no gaps.
4. Fill with the apple marmalade and cover with more butter-dipped bread.
5. Bake pudding-style with heat above until the bread just browns; serve hot.