Blast from the past: World's best baked apple

This post originally appeared here on November 3, 2004, and makes an encore today in weather that's perfect for turning on the oven and making a batch. ................................. World's Best Baked Apple Everything you need to create one of the simplest, most succulently delicious desserts extant is contained in this post. Food writer and cookbook author Nancy Baggett recently spent an enormous amount of time and effort preparing a definitive article on baked apples. It appeared on the front page of the October 20 Washington Post Food section. Ms. Baggett purchased a variety of apples said by various orchard owners and cooks to be "the best one" for baking. She then conducted her own informal "bake-offs" over a several year period. She wrote: "Eventually in my testing I tried more than 30 different kinds of apples. I baked them all in the same kind of dishes, with the same recipe, in the same oven." "I always tested two of each kind at once, to be sure the results were characteristic of that apple and not a fluke." "Every apple was sampled and informally rated by two or three testers." Her article follows. In it you'll find her favored recipe, along with one for excellent microwave-baked apples. These are followed by her specific comments on the very best of the best baking apples. Finally, there's a short item on the best apple corers on the market. bookofjoe suggestion: serve the apples with a scoop of Ben & Jerry's French Vanilla ice cream on the ...
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