SNOW-BALLS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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6.0 servings
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Ingredients (6)
Instructions (8)
  1. Pare five large baking apples, take out the cores with a scoop, and fill the holes with orange or quince marmalade.
  2. Make a little good hot paste, and roll your apples in it.
  3. Make your crust of an equal thickness, and put them in a tin dripping-pan.
  4. Bake them in a moderate oven.
  5. When you take them out, make icing for them the same way as for the plum-cake, and ice them all over with it, about a quarter of an inch thick.
  6. Set them a good distance from the fire till they are hardened, but take care you do not let them brown.
  7. Put one in the middle of a China dish, and the other five round it.
  8. Garnish with green sprigs and small flowers.
Original Text
To make SNOW-BALLS. PARE five large baking apples, take out the cores with a scoop, fill the holes with orange or quince marmalade, then make a little good hot paste, and roll your apples in it, and make your crust of an equal thickness, and put them in a tin dripping-pan, bake them in a moderate oven, when you take them out, make icing for them the same way as for the plum-cake, and ice them all over with it, about a quarter of an inch thick, set them a good distance from the fire till they are hardened, but take care you do not let them brown, put one in the middle of a China dish, and the other five round it. Garnish them with green sprigs and small flowers.—They are proper for a corner either for dinner or supper.
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