Recipe of Victorian Apple Cheesecakes

Victorian Apple Cheesecakes

• Eight ounces of apples
• Three cloves
• Three ounces of brown sugar
• Two eggs
• One ounce of butter
• One tablespoonful of castor sugar
• Some scraps of short or puff pastry

Method; Roll out the pastry and cut into rounds, then line some patty tins.

Peel and core the apples then cut into quarters, place in a saucepan with one tablespoonful of water together with the cloves, then stew until soft.

Add the butter and sugar and when dissolve mix with the cooked apples then rub through a fine wire sieve; beat up the eggs and add the apples. Place a little of the apple mixture into each patty tin and bake for fifteen minutes. The cakes may be decorated if so wished.