Tea Flavored Baked Apples
From The
Tea Box
Baked
apples:
7 tablespoons butter
6 baking apples (preferably Golden Delicious or Pippin)
2 tablespoons honey
Apple-tea
jelly:
1 cup apple juice
4 teaspoons sugar
2-1/2 teaspoons pectin
1 teaspoon (preferably Assam or BOP)
Ceylon tea
Tea
sorbet (optional):
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
2 teaspoons Russian-style tea or (preferably BOP) Ceylon tea
Juice of 1 lemon, strained
2-1/2 teaspoons pectin |
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To
prepare baked apples: Butter a rimmed baking sheet. Preheat
the oven to 325°F. Wash apples. Cut in half vertically and remove
the core with a spoon. Arrange the apples on the baking sheet, rounded
side up. Place a chunk of butter on each apple half. Coat them with
honey and pour 2 tablespoons water onto the sheet. Bake until the
apples are tender, about 20 minutes.
To prepare apple-tea jelly: Bring the apple juice to a boil;
mix in the sugar. Whisk in the pectin. Remove from heat; add the
tea and steep for 2 minutes. Strain and refrigerate.
To
prepare tea sorbet (optional): Combine 2 cups water, sugar and
corn syrup in a saucepan and bring to boil. Add tea, remove from
heat and steep 2 minutes. Strain and chill. Add lemon juice. Churn
in ice cream maker.
To
serve: Spread apple-tea jelly in a shallow bowl. Add 2 baked
apple halves per serving. Top with a scoop of tea sorbet. If not
making homemade sorbet, rather than skipping it completely, you
might consider using store-bought vanilla ice cream or sorbet.
Yields
6 servings.
(Updated: 10/28/08 SN) |
