Sweet Baked Goods Apple Charlotte

apple charlotte
(from Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree, 1878)

Ingredients:

stewed apples​

bread crumbs​

one spoonful butter​

spoonful wine​

cinnamon​

nutmeg​

lemon peel​

brown sugar​

three eggs​

Instructions:

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Equal quantities stewed apples and bread crumbs, one spoonful butter, three eggs beaten up and stirred in at the last, just before baking. Spoonful wine, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon peel, and plenty of brown sugar. Stir together, and bake quite a long time.​

 

[Fairfield]

Looks wonderful! Apple season is coming right up in Maine.

My family makes a dessert called tilslørte bondepiker (veiled peasant girls) which is very much like a cold apple charlotte. I wonder if the ingredients in your recipe--minus the eggs--wouldn't make a nice version.