Required: Six large baking apples. Three ounces of moist sugar. Two ounces of sweet almonds. Red-currant jelly. The rind of half a lemon. Two cloves.

Peel, core, and slice the apples, stew them until they are soft with the sugar, lemon-rind, cloves, and a little water. Then take out the rind and cloves and rub the apple through a sieve. Shell the almonds and cut them lengthways into thick shreds.

Arrange the apple-pulp in a pretty dish to look as much the shape of a hedgehog as possible.

Stamp out three round pieces of red-currant jelly about the size of a shilling, arrange these down the middle, then stick the shreds of almonds all over the apples. This dish is a great favourite with children.