Apples à la Princesse Maude.
(Pommes à la Princesse Maude.)
Peel one and a half pounds of good cooking apples, cut them up and cook them in three quarters of a pint of water with four to six ounces of loaf sugar, according to the sweetness of the apples, two bayleaves, and the finely cut peel of one lemon; when the apples are perfectly soft dissolve with them three quarters of an ounce of Marshall's Finest Leaf Gelatine, and pass the whole through the tammy; divide the purée into two parts, and redden one of them with liquid carmine and whiten the other with a little thick cream, and put them into separate saucepans to about a quarter of an inch thick, and let them set; put the pans on broken ice if you have any; when the purée is set, cut out in rounds with a plain cutter about the size of a shilling for ornamenting round the mould, and in leaf shapes for the bottom of the