Take half a dozen good, tart cooking apples--greenings or Newtown
pippins; peel, cut in slices about a quarter of an inch thick and core
them. Melt an ounce of butter in a spider, and lay in the slices of
apples with a quarter of a pound of granulated sugar and the juice of a
lemon, stew gently over a moderate fire. When done arrange them nicely
on a dish, melt a generous tablespoonful of currant jelly in the spider,
and when ready to serve mix with it half a glass of Madeira or sherry;
pour over the apples and serve.