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Chartreuse De Pommes

Neatly peel eight sound apples, and with the aid of a thin tube cut out as many strips as you can. Trim the strips so as to have them of equal size. Place them on a dish until required. Place all residue of the apples in a small saucepan with four ounces sugar, one teaspoon of vanilla essence, a half teaspoon ground cinnamon and one gill water. Cover the pan and slowly cook for thirty minutes. Remove from fire, press through a sieve into a bowl and let cool off.

Have three small saucepans on a table, place three ounces sugar and a half pint water in each pan, then squeeze the juice of a small, sound lemon in one pan only. Add one saltspoon ground Spanish saffron to another pan, and a saltspoon of cochineal in the third pan; set them on the fire, and, as soon as all come to a boil add the apple strips to the pans, evenly divided, and cook for five minutes. Remove from the fire and let cool off. Lightly wet a plain charlotte mould, line the bottom and sides with the apple strips, then fill up the mould with the apple puree. Turn on a dish, then let stand for five minutes with the mould on the charlotte. Lift up the mould and serve.