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Apple Birds' Nests

Choose six large apples, the same size, peel and remove the cores, place them apart in a large pie-dish. Put in each apple a clove and as much sifted sugar as it will hold. Put in the pie-dish two tea-cupfuls of water, the juice and peel of one lemon, and some more sugar. Put it in a slow oven with a dish over. As each apple is done put it in the glass in which it is to be served, the hollow-side uppermost. Strain the juice into a stew-pan, add half an ounce of soaked gelatine to it, and more sugar if not sweet enough. Simmer until dissolved, colour with cochineal, strain into a jug, let it cool, then pour round the apples. When set, fill each apple with apricot jam, and cover with whipped cream. Probable cost,1s. 6d.