Apple Brown Lennie

My version of Apple Brown Betty ... always popular, and very easy to make.

• Ready In: 1 hr 20 mins
• Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 10  medium apples, peeled and sliced
• 2  teaspoons ground cinnamon

• Topping

• 1 1⁄2 cups flour
• 3⁄4 cup  packed brown sugar
• 1⁄2 cup  soft butter

• Syrup

• 2⁄3 cup  packed brown sugar
• 1⁄4 cup hot water
•  lemon, juice of

Directions

1. Make topping first: In a mixing bowl, combine flour and brown sugar.
2. Using a pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
3. Set aside.
4. Then make syrup: Combine syrup ingredients in a small bowl and stir well; set aside.
5. Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
6. Lightly grease a 12x8 baking pan.
7. Peel, core and slice 10-12 medium-sized baking apples (use 12 if they're kind of small or you use a 13x9 pan), preferably Northern Spy.
8. Arrange apple slices in bottom of pan and sprinkle with the cinnamon.
9. Drizzle with half the syrup, cover with all the topping mixture, then drizzle the remaining syrup over top.
10. Bake for 1 hour.
11. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.