Brown Betty, or Fruit Stuffing
(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)
Source: Arkansas Democrat Gazette- Kelly Brant
Categories: Fruit Desserts
Ingredients
- About 8 slices bread
- About 6 cups any fresh, frozen or canned fruit (drain, if using canned)
- About 3/4 cup butter, plus more for greasing
- About 1 1/2 cups brown or white sugar, divided
- Ground cinnamon, to taste
Directions
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Heat oven to 375 degrees.
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Cut bread slices into thin strips. Rotate bread slices 90 degrees and dice into cubes. Keep cutting ; or tearing, if you prefer, until bread is your desired size.
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If using fresh fruit, pit and core them. Slice, cut off and discard any brown, or mushy parts, and coarsely dice fruit into about 1/2 inch cubes. You can peel the apples if you prefer.
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Rub a baking dish lavishly with butter.
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Sprinkle brown sugar or white sugar and cinnamon, in the bottom of the dish, using about 1/2 cup.
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Put 1/3 of the fruit over it, then about 1/3 of the bread crumbles less if necessary to have enough for a nice layer at the end. Repeat; sugar and cinnamon, fruit, bread, sugar and cinnamon, fruit, bread .
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Slice some salted butter (about 1 1/2 sticks) and lay the slices all over the top. Sprinkle 3 to 4 Tbsp. water across the top.
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Cover with foil and bake for about 45 minutes. When you have about 5 minutes remaining, remove the foil. Keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn’t get too brown. Remove from the oven when it’s hot and bubbly.