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American · Dessert

Apple Brown Betty

Buttered bread crumbs layered with cinnamon apples and lemon, baked until the top is crisp and the middle soft. It uses up stale bread beautifully.

  • YieldServes 6
  • Hands-on25 min
  • Total1 h 38 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

  • 200 gsoft white bread crumbs, about 4 cups, from day-old bread
  • 115 gunsalted butter, melted
  • 500 gapples, about 4 cups, peeled, cored and sliced
  • 3 tbsplemon juice, from 1 lemon
  • ½ tsplemon zest, finely grated
  • ½ tspground cinnamon
  • 200 ggranulated sugar
  • 180 mlwater

To serve

  • 120 mlheavy cream, for pouring

Diet

  • Vegetarian (lacto-ovo)

Contains

  • Gluten
  • Dairy
  • Wheat
  • Pome fruits (any)
  • Apple
  • Citrus fruits (any)
  • Lemon
  • Cinnamon
  • Yeast
  • Lactose
  • Fructose
  • FODMAPs (any)

Taste

  • Sweet
  • Sour / bright
  • Richness / fat
  • Aromatic spice

Texture

  • Crisp
  • Tender-braised

Equipment

  • Oven

Season

  • Fall

Occasion

  • Weeknight

Effort

  • 20–45 min active
  • 1–3 hours total
  • Difficulty 1
  • Kid-friendly

Nutrition

  • Calories: moderate
  • Protein: low
  • Carbs: high
  • Fat: moderate
  • Fiber: low
  • Sodium: low

Budget

  • Budget: low

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