Poached Apples With Clarified Lemon Syrup

Ingredients

• Golden rennet apples (enough to fill serving dish)
• ½ cup water
• 1 lemon (juice and peel)
• 1 egg white (beaten)

Method

1. 1 Peel apples and remove cores from the bottom, leaving them whole at the top.
2. 2 Simmer apple cores and water to make a syrup base.
3. 3 Add apples to the syrup and stew gently until tender, avoiding breaking them.
4. 4 Clarify the syrup by stirring in beaten egg white, then skimming off the foam.
5. 5 Add lemon juice and shredded peel, boil for one minute, then pour over apples.