Makaron with Apples

• This is a sweet dessert made with cooked pasta.
• Mama would often make this dish when I was young.
• The general word for pasta in Polish is makaron .. from the Italian macaroni or maccheroni which is thought to originate from the Greek makaria – food made from barley!
• If you use home-made noodles or chopped tagliatelle – you could call this łazanki  with fruit.
• Amounts of pasta and apples are not that critical.

Ingredients

• 250g cooked small sized pasta
• 500g cooking apples
• 100g & 100g granulated sugar
• ¾ teaspoon of ground cinnamon
• 3 eggs separated
• 50g butter

Method

• Peel and chop the apples.
• Partly cook them with 100g of sugar.
• Leave then slightly chunky.
• Add cinnamon and stir.
• Leave to cool.
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• Melt the butter.
• Grease an oven proof dish with some of the butter.
• Pre-heat the oven to GM4 180°C.
• Mix the pasta with the rest of the butter.
• Whisk the egg yolks with 100g of sugar till pale and frothy.
• Lightly whisk the egg whites.
• Mix the whites with the yolk mixture and whisk again.
• Mix the buttered pasta with the egg and sugar mixture.
• Spread out half the pasta as a layer at the bottom of the dish.
• Put the cooked apples on top of the pasta.
• Spread the rest of the pasta on top of the apples.
• Cook for 40 -50 minutes.
• Dust with icing sugar and serve.
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• Can be served hot, warm and even cold.

Plate by Johnson Brothers – Snowflake -1960-1979