Dinner · 12 min · Amounts not specified
Cinnamon apples
Apples that have gone soft in the bowl. Cut them thick, color them properly, and the honey goes on off the heat so it glazes.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 12 min
easyWhy tonight. Apples that have gone soft in the bowl. Cut them thick, color them properly, and the honey goes on off the heat so it glazes.
What it needs
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- apple
- cinnamon
- butter
- honey
Method
- Cut the apples thick. Thin slices collapse to sauce in the time it takes to color them.
- Butter foaming in the pan first, apples in one layer, and left alone until the undersides are properly gold.
- Cinnamon in near the end, in the fat. Ground spice from the start scorches and turns bitter.
- Honey last and off the heat, so it glazes rather than caramelizing to something that welds to the pan.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
- Pan sauceTurning what stuck to the pan into a sauce. Two minutes of work at the end of something you already cooked.watery · too salty · greasy · broken · bitter
- Pie doughKeeping butter in visible pieces and gluten underdeveloped, which is the exact opposite of bread and trips everyone once.tough · shrank in the tin · greasy · cracked when rolled · soggy bottom
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- apple
- Sweet, acidic and firm, which is a rare combination — it holds its shape in a hot pan and cuts through fat on a cold plate.
- cinnamon
- Warm and sweet-smelling without being sweet, which is why it works in a stew as readily as in a pastry.
- butter
- Flavor and body in the same spoonful.
- honey
- Sweetness with a floral edge and enough body to change the texture of what it is in.
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