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Mele cotte

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A simple and extremely delicious dessert, Mele Cotte is apples stuffed with raisins, topped with marmelade and sugar and baked in lemon and clove flavored white wine.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • 1/2 cup sweet white wine
  • 6 Cortland, Rome or similar apples
  • 2 tbsp marmalade (strawberry, orange, or any flavor you like)
  • Sugar for sprinkling the apples
  • butter, unsalted
  • 1 lemon peel
  • 2 cloves

Method

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Soak the raisins in the wine.
Core the apples.

Butter the bottom of a baking dish. Place apples in the dish and stuff then with the raisins. Top raisins with a teaspoon  of the marmalade. Sprinkle sugar over the apples.

Pour the remaining wine, the lemon peel and cloves in the dish and bake for ½ hour.

Serve with vanila ice cream.

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