Ingredients
6 tart apples
6 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup water

Instructions
Select medium apples. Wash, remove stems, cores and blosson ends. Peel a narrow strip from upper part of apple. Please apples in baking dish. Combine sugar and nutmeg; spoon equally into cored apples. Dot with butter. Pour water around apples. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Bake covered for 30 minutes, basting 2 or 3 times. Uncover, baste again and bake 15 minutes longer, or until tender.