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2009-10-13: comfort me with apples
When it starts to get cool out and sweaters are pulled from closet shelves and forced into service my mind turns immediately to food (when does my mind not turn to food??). Specifically to fall fruit desserts.
Apples are the fall fruit that I ponder on the most regularly - probably because they are so abundant, so delicious, and so utterly versatile. There are mountains of them at every grocery store and market; pyramids of red, yellow and green and a few with all three colours mixed together. All of them beckoning me to take their shiny orbs home and make them into something delicious so they can fulfill their autumnal destinies.
The house was filled with the sweet, comforting smell of apples baking yesterday with dessert in the oven for over an hour. I know that they sell this particular scent, the scent of apples and cinnamon baking, bottled at the drug store. Why would anyone purchase a bottle of this smell to spray in their home when all they have to do is bake something as simple as this? Or an apple pie? Or applesauce...? I guess not everyone has the time or the inclination to bake in order to make their house smell utterly delicious.
This recipe was really quite simple -- it just had to be assembled, which took all of five minutes and then popped into the oven and baked for just over an hour, basting it with the pan juices every once in a while. And the result was an absolutely scrumptious dessert, served with vanilla ice cream and the toffee-coffee flavoured pan sauce.
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