CEiMB: Apple Brown Betty

The recipe chosen this week for CEiMB, using Ellie Krieger's book, So Easy, was selected by Jessica at Learning to Love Vegetables and is Apple Brown Betty.  It can be found on pages 240-241 and also here.  Thanks, Jessica, this will be a frequent guest at our house as Matt's favorite warm dessert is Apple Crisp.  This is a great version of it.

 

 The ingredient list:  Apples (I used Honey Crisp), apple cider, brown sugar, vanilla, butter, whole wheat bread, and walnuts (I left out the nuts).  The recipe was easy to prepare, much like any other Crisp/Brown Betty recipe I have ever made, with the exception that this recipe calls for cooking the apples on the stovetop a bit before assembling it in the baking dish.  They are baked with a cup of apple cider and I thought there would be too much liquid as I was ladling it into the dish, but somehow the liquid all gets absorbed during the baking as it was not present in the finished product.  It was all just perfect.  Definitely a keeper.
 

Next week's hostess is Shandy of Pastry Heaven.  She has selected the Chicken Pot Pies on pages 202-203 of The Food You Crave.  You can find the CEiMB blogroll here.