Baked Apples With Mincemeat Cherries And Walnuts Food

BAKED APPLES WITH MINCEMEAT, CHERRIES, AND WALNUTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Boil first 3 ingredients in large skillet until reduced to 1 1/4 cups, about 12 minutes.
• Meanwhile, cut cone-shaped piece from stem end of each apple, 2 inches wide at top and 1 inch deep. Using melon baller, core, leaving bottom intact. Turn apple on its side. Starting halfway down, make 1/4-inch-deep slit all around. Mix mincemeat, walnuts, cherries, and crystallized ginger in small bowl; spoon into apples, mounding in center.
• Arrange apples in 11x7x2-inch baking dish. Spoon cider mixture over and around. Bake until apples are tender, about 45 minutes. Serve in shallow bowls.

APPLE MINCEMEAT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Place apples, butter, and lemon juice into a saucepan over medium heat, and cook, stirring often, until the apples are tender, 8 to 10 minutes. Stir in sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla extract. Mix in the mincemeat and walnuts until thoroughly combined, and set the pie filling aside.
• Fit a pie crust into a 9-inch pie dish; pour the filling into the crust. With a brush dipped in water, moisten the edge of the bottom crust. Top the pie with the second crust, and crimp the two crusts together with a fork to seal. Cut 4 slits into the top crust for steam vents. In a small bowl, whisk the egg yolk with water, and brush the yolk mixture over the top crust.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes, then reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Remove the pie from the oven, and cover the crust edges with strips of aluminum foil to prevent over baking. Return the pie to the oven, and bake until the crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbling, 30 to 35 more minutes.

WALNUT BAKED APPLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 2 quart casserole dish, or coat with non-stick cooking spray.
• Place apples in a large bowl. In a small bowl, mix together sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Stir spice mixture into apples until evenly distributed. Fold in raisins and walnuts. Spoon into prepared dish. Pour milk evenly over apple mixture.
• Bake in preheated oven for 45 to 60 minutes, or until soft and bubbly. Allow to cool slightly before serving.

MINCEMEAT STUFFED APPLES (JAMIE OLIVER)

Steps:

• preheat oven to 190 or gas mark 5, tip mincemeat into bowl add big pinch of the cinnamon, lemon zest, walnuts and port mix well.
• core apples with corer and stuff the hollow holes wirh the mincemeat mix.
• beat the egg and milk together. Lay pastry on a floured surface and roll out to thickness of 50p about 3 mm? (half thickness of pound coin) im rubbish with these kind of measurements.
• cut into eight even sized squares and lightly brush each with egg and millk wash. scatter half of demmerara sugar evenly across squares and then dust with a couple of pinches of cinnamon.
• place apple in centre of square of patry and bring pastry up around the apple pressing together so the apple is encased - do this with rest of apples.
• hold the apples with the pastry sealed on the top of the apple, facing upwards else your apple will slide off.
• transfer apples to baking tray lined with greaseproof, patry seal DOWN on the greasproof brush each with a little more egg and milk wash and scatter over last of sugar and remaining cinnamon.
• bake in hot oven fo about 40 mins , the patry should be golden and crispyand apples cooked through servce with the jersey cream, leftovers can be eaten cold the next day. sounds goody yum tums.