Brown Betty
- 1 small, stale, bakers loaf.
- ⅓ cup butter.
- 1 quart, sliced, tart apples.
- ⅓ cup sugar.
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg.
- Grated rind ½ lemon.
- Juice one lemon.
Process: Remove the crust from bread and cut in thick slices, grate each slice by rubbing it through the croquette basket or colander. Melt butter in a sauce-pan, add crumbs and toss lightly with a fork, cover bottom of well-buttered baking dish with crumbs and cover with one half the apples, sprinkle with half the sugar, nutmeg, lemon rind and juice mixed together; repeat, having layer crumbs on top. Bake forty-five minutes in a moderate oven, cover with a buttered paper the first thirty minutes of cooking. Remove paper and brown richly.