Apples a la Portugaise

Ingredients

• 8 good boiling apples
• 1/2 pint water
• 6 oz sugar
• a layer of apple marmalade No. 1395
• 8 preserved cherries
• garnishing of apricot jam

Instructions

1. Peel the apples, and, with a vegetable-cutter, push out the cores;
2. boil them in the above proportion of sugar and water, without being too much done, and take care they do not break.
3. Have ready a white apple marmalade, made by recipe No. 1395;
4. cover the bottom of the dish with this, level it, and lay the apples in a sieve to drain, pile them neatly on the marmalade, making them high in the centre, and place a preserved cherry in the middle of each.
5. Garnish with strips of candied citron or apricot jam, and the dish is ready for table.