Apple Brown Betty With Rum Whipped Cream

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Title: APPLE BROWN BETTY WITH RUM WHIPPED CREAM
Categories: Desserts, Holiday
Yield: 6 servings

MAIN INGREDIENTS:
1 c All-purpose flour
1/4 ts Salt
1/2 ts Ground cinnamon
1/4 ts Ground nutmeg
3/4 c Sugar
8 tb (1 stick) unsalted butter,
-chilled, cut into 1/2" piec
4 Slices firm-textured bread;
-crusts removed
1 c Raisins
3 Granny Smith apples; peeled,
-cored, and cut into 1/2-inc
-pieces (about 1-1/2 pounds)
RUM WHIPPED CREAM:
1 c Heavy cream
2 tb Sugar
2 tb Dark rum

To make the apple brown betty: Preheat the oven to 350
degrees. Butter a 9-inch-square baking dish. Sift the
flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar into a bowl.
Cut the butter into small pieces; cut it into the
flour mixture, using a pastry blender, until the
mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Cut the bread into
1-inch-square pieces. Soak the raisins in boiling
water to cover for about 5 minutes, until plump, the
drain them. Combine the bread, raisins, and sliced
apples in a bowl. Sprinkle the bottom of the prepared
baking dish with 3/4 cup of the flour mixture, add the
apple mixture, and top with the remaining flour
mixture. Bake, uncovered, in the preheated oven until
the top of the brown betty is crisp and golden and the
apples are tender, 35 to 45 minutes. To make the rum
whipped cream: In a chilled medium bowl, beat the
cream and sugar until stiff. Beat in the rum. Serve
the betty warm, with the rum whipped cream. Serves 6.
Submitted By ROBERT.FOSTER@NASHVILLE.COM (ROBERT
FOSTER) On 10 NOV 1995 060029 -0700

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