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Charlotte is the apple pie, which for many years belongs to the most popular dishes due to its amazing taste, usefulness (which not many confectionery can boast of), as well as a simple recipe, which does not require special skills and high costs.
There are several stories of her simple and familiar name to everyone since childhood. The most common version is that the cake got its name from Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the wife of George III, King of England, who loved apples. The second version connects the etymology of the name of the charlotte with the old English word charlyt, which denotes a dish made from beaten eggs, sugar and milk.
The classic charlotte is a French sweet dish, for the preparation of which fruit, white bread, custard and liquor were taken. To prepare such a “Charlotte”, you had to have a lot of time, patience and possess certain skills. Therefore, culinary enthusiasts in different countries of the world eventually come up with their own recipes, which even today can be successfully implemented in any kitchen.
Some of the metamorphosis that charlotte has undergone since its inception have occurred as a result of various historical events. Thus, the replacement of apples with cold custard cream in the original French recipe, and the pieces of bread with cookies, was made in 1814 for the sake of the Russian Tsar Alexander I after the defeat of Napoleon and the entry of Russian troops in Paris. Since then, charlotte has quickly become popular, and won many cuisines in Europe and North America. In the US, charlotte was even recognized as the national American dish.
The domestic recipe, which came to us from our mothers and grandmothers, is one of the most democratic and affordable.
Apple Charlotte
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 cup of flour
- 1 kg of sweet and sour apples
Method of preparation
- To make the dough, beat the eggs with a mixer, gradually adding sugar, then flour and salt (taken at the tip of the knife). We get a mass similar in thickness to sour cream. It is important to remember that the taste of the cake will be the better, the more carefully the components of the sponge are whipped.
- My apples and, having cleared the stones, cut them into small pieces. To clean them of the peel or not - decides the hostess, it is not strictly regulated.
- Next, smearing the baking dish with oil and sprinkling it with breadcrumbs, put the apples in the mold and, evenly pouring the dough, put it in the oven preheated to 180 ° C for about half an hour.
- After half an hour, open the oven and check the readiness of the charlotte by sticking a match in it: if the dough doesn't stick to it, the cake is ready.
Apple Charlotte with Vanilla
Ingredients
- 150 g. baguette
- 500 gr. apples
- 3 tbsp. l lemon juice
- 50 gr. almond leaflets
- 3 eggs
- 100 ml of cream
- 500 ml of milk
- 0.5 tsp. ground cinnamon and liquid sugar substitute
- 3 drops of vanilla essence
- 200 gr. cottage cheese
- 1 tbsp. l vanilla pudding
Preparation Method
- Cut the baguette into thin slices.
- Cut the apples into thin slices and sprinkle them with lemon juice.
- Beat the eggs with cream and half the milk, adding sugar substitute, cinnamon, vanilla essence and cottage cheese.
- We lubricate the form with oil, and in the form of a tile we place slices of bread and apples. Sprinkle with almonds, and pour the cream mixture on top.
- Place the form in the oven, preheated to 175 ° C, and bake for half an hour.
- While baking the cake, lightly beat 2 tbsp. l milk with a couple of drops of sugar substitute and a mixture of pudding. Heat the rest of the milk, put the pudding mix in there and bring it to the boil, stirring constantly.
- Sprinkle charlotte with sugar substitute and serve with vanilla sauce.
Apple Charlotte with Strawberry Jam
Ingredients
- 5 apples
- 2 tbsp. l brown sugar
- 0.5 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1 loaf of white bread
- 100 grams. melted butter
- 1 glass of strawberry jam
- 1 glass of water
- 1 tsp. grated lemon peel
- 0.5 cup of icing sugar
Preparation Method
- Boil apples with sugar and cinnamon in a saucepan, cut the core out of them until they are soft, drain the liquid and cool.
- We grease 6 portion shakers with any oil.
- Cut the bread into slices after cutting the crust. Then, using a notch for cookies, cut out 12 circles from them (for the top and bottom of each of the molds). The rest of the bread is cut into strips having a length of height of the molds and a width of 2 cm.
- Dip 6 circles in melted butter, spread them bottom of the molds. We also dip each strip of bread in melted butter and press it against the walls of the molds so that their edges cover one another.
- Fill the molds that we lined with bread, boiled apples, and cover with bread-dipped bread.
- Preheat oven to 180 ° C, put our molds there and bake for 20 minutes.
- While the charlotte is baking, prepare the sauce: put the strawberry jam in a saucepan, pour the water, add lemon zest and powdered sugar to the same place, bring to a boil and cook over low heat for about 15 minutes, then strain it.
- Putting ready-made charlottes on plates, pour them with sauce and cream.
Rice Charlotte
Ingredients
- 1 cup of rice
- 2 eggs
- 3 tbsp. l flour
- 1 tbsp. l grated butter
- 3 apples
- 3 tbsp. l powdered sugar
- to taste - sugar, cinnamon and lemon peel
Preparation Method
- Cook rice; when it cools down, mix it with flour, eggs, 1 tbsp. l powdered sugar, butter.
- Cut the apples into thin slices.
- We oil the form and put half of the rice mass into it, apples on it. Sprinkle with sugar to taste, add cinnamon, lemon zest, and lay out the rest of the rice.
- Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes.
- We put the form in the oven, preheating it to 220 degrees, and bake for about half an hour.
- Sprinkle the finished charlotte with the remaining icing sugar.
Cheese Charlotte
Ingredients
- 250 g of cottage cheese
- 1 cup of sugar and semolina
- 1 tsp. soda, hydrated vinegar
- 3 apples
- 1 egg
- 100 grams. butter
- breadcrumbs
Preparation Method
- After washing the apples and peeling them from the core, cut them into thin slices and fill them with sugar. To dissolve sugar in apple juice, let them stand for a while.
- In another dish, prepare a mixture of cottage cheese, eggs, soda, semolina, and pour melted butter at the end.
- Gently mix the resulting mixture with apples.
- Lubricate the form with butter, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, spread our curd-apple mass and place the mold in the oven, which is heated to 220 degrees.
- We bake on medium heat for about half an hour (until a golden brown crust forms).
Charlotte with butter
Ingredients
- 60 g. butter or margarine (softened)
- 12 pieces of white bread (better than stale)
- 0.5 tsp. cinnamon
- 700 ml of milk
- 100 g sugar
- 0.5 tsp. vanilla essence
- 4 eggs
- A quarter of a teaspoon of salt
Preparation Method
- Oil the bread slices.
- We grease a square glass form, and put 4 slices of bread in it in one layer so that they slightly overlap each other, sprinkle half of the cinnamon on top, and make 2 more layers in the same way.
- Mix the remaining ingredients with a whisk, pour the bread in the form with this mixture and let it brew for 10 minutes.
- We put the form in an oven heated to 170 degrees and bake for about an hour.
- Cool the finished charlotte and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Lemon Charlotte
Ingredients
- 6 sheets of white gelatin
- 200 gr. sugar
- 200-250 ml. lemon juice
- Half a glass of cream
- 50 gr. grated coconut
- 30 g. butter
- 6 egg yolks
- 6 egg whites
- Peel of two lemons
Preparation Method
- Immerse gelatin in cold water.
- Stir egg yolks with sugar, add zest and cream to this mixture. Put this mixture in a water bath and interfere until the formation of a thick cream.
- We warm up lemon juice and add pressed gelatin there, stir and pour this mixture into cream, stir well.
- Beat the whites and send them to the cream too.
- We shift the cream in the form and put in the refrigerator.
- Whip the cream, and apply them to the surface with a pastry syringe.
- Fry the coconut in oil a little, cool it, and sprinkle charlotte with it before serving.
Now - some general tips that will help make any charlotte tastier and diversify recipes:
Tip 1: It is advisable to add cinnamon or vanilla to the dough; experiments with poppy seeds, grated chocolate, etc .;
Tip 2: Instead of or in addition to apples, you can make a charlotte with other fruits: pears, apricots, etc.
Tip 3: Fresh berries can be a very tasty and useful decoration for charlottes: lingonberries, cranberries, currants, both whole and ground with sugar.
Tip 4: In winter, if there are no fresh apples, you can use dried fruits instead: dried apricots, raisins, and walnuts.
To summarize, I want to say something else. At the beginning of the article we talked about the usefulness of the apple tree charlotte, not for the sake of the red word. The fact that apples are a source of vitamins, valuable microelements (especially iron), antioxidants, tannin, pectin, so necessary for the body to be healthy, everyone knows. And charlotte contains baked apples, which are absorbed much better. Therefore, stock up on ripe, delicious apples, choose a recipe for charlottes you like, and bake this wonderful dish for the joy and health of yourself and your loved ones.
Enjoy your meal!
