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Apple Hedgehog, Iced

Dissolve in a well-lined saucepan eight ounces of good sugar with half a pint of water, and stew in the syrup until tender a dozen or more good-sized apples, pared and cored. Drain them from the sugar, and pile them on a dish to resemble the form of a hedgehog. Slice eighteen or twenty good boiling apples, keep them over a very slow fire until they are a smooth, dry pulp, then fill in with it, so as to make an even surface, all the spaces between the apples, as well as the hollows from which the cores were taken. Spread it evenly all over with the back of a spoon. Make an icing with the whites of three eggs, and three heaped tea-spoonfuls of white sugar. Of this lay on a thick coating, which must again be covered with sifted sugar. Cut half a pound of blanched almonds in the usual spiked form, and fix them thickly over the hedgehog. Bake to give the almonds a little colour, and warm the apples through in a moderately hot oven. Time, twenty to thirty minutes to stew apples. Probable cost, 2s. Sufficient for five or six persons.