Apple Brown Betty

TinyArtist

  Apple Brown BettyYield: 6 servings

  Ingredients  

• 1  cup soft bread crumbs, or ready-to-eat cereal
• 3  tablespoon  butter, or margarine
• 1  teaspoon grated orange or lemon peel
• 1/2  cup  sugar, or other sweetening
• 1  teaspoon  cinnamon
• 4   medium-sized apples, sliced
• 1/4  cup  fruit juice
  

  Directions  

• Set oven for moderate, 375f.
• Mix bread crumbs, butter or margarine, peel, sugar, and cinnamon.
• Place half the sliced apples in buttered baking dish.
• Cover with half the bread-crumb mixture.
• Add remaining apple slices and cover with remaining crumb mixture.
• Sprinkle with fruit juice.
• Bake about 45 minutes.
• Serve hot or cold with milk, cream, custard sauce, or other dessert sauce.
• Mincemeat variation: use 1/2 cup mincemeat and 3 apples.
• Rhubarb variation: use 2 cups stewed sweetened rhubarb in place of apples; omit sugar, cinnamon, and fruit juice.