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Pare and core tart apples with apple-corer, fill the center with sugar, stick four cloves in the top of each, and bake in deep pieplates, with a little water.
“The best is none too good.” Southern family receipts gathered across generations and printed in Atlanta in 1883 — and, in the same volume, everything else a household was expected to know: the laundry, the sick-room, dressmaking, babies, and a year's bill of fare.
Pare and core tart apples with apple-corer, fill the center with sugar, stick four cloves in the top of each, and bake in deep pieplates, with a little water.