Spiced Stewed Apples

 
Awesome with roast pork or ham! Also excellent spooned over vanilla ice cream while still warm, with an added drizzle of caramel sauce.

Ingredients:

• 5 large cooking apples*


• 1 cup sugar


• 1 tsp cinnamon


• ¼ tsp nutmeg


• ¼ cup butter


• 2 Tbs water

Preparation:

Peel apples and cut into chunks. Combine sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Sprinkle seasoned sugar over apples until evenly covered. Put seasoned apples, butter, and the 2 Tbs. water into a pot, cover and cook over low heat, stirring 2 or 3 times, for 20 minutes or until apples are tender. Serve hot with meal.
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*Common varieties of cooking apples: Granny Smith, Yellow Delicious, Gravenstein, Jonathan, Gala, McIntosh, Pink Lady