Glamourie Apples

The Apple Harvest Festival is this weekend, folks, and the local orchards and cider mills will start selling their wares soon. You know what that means: Glamourie Apples will be available. For those new to the area, if you wonder where everyone is next weekend, you will find them at the shops of the Lockport Apple Orchard Society, located at various Apple Orchards around town. Glamourie Apples don't travel well, and they only grow in our area. No one living here should miss the opportunity to stock up. Around here we associate the Glamourie Apple with the beginning of autumn even more then the appearance of pumpkin spice everything.

— WFAE Radio Lockport

Glamourie Apples are a type of apple found only in the region around Lockport. Although it is not widely known, even among those aware of the supernatural side of the world, they are not actually a variety of apple. They are any apple harvested from a tree that a Glamourie Apple Dryad has bonded with, harvested after a specific ritual has been preformed to imbue the apples with a tiny bit of Glamour. This process allows a dryad to gather a portion of the pleasure the person tasting a Glamourie Apple feels and convert it into glamour for themselves.

Perhaps because the tiny bit of magical energy enhances the apples, within the region where they are available, glamourie apples are on every table, in every kitchen, and even those who don't usually care for apples find them flavorful. Gourmet Chefs who have tasted them lament the fact that they do not travel well. Many find it difficult to explain how the flavor is better, but state that it simply is. The more poetic claim it as if, when eating one, you can taste the trees joy at having enough sun and water to grow the apple.

The apples are popular in both as they are, and in baked dishes that showcase their flavor. Glamourie apples can be made into pies, muffins, apple crisps, and even apple butter without loosing their magically delicious flavor, unless taken outside the radius of the Apple Dryads who created it. This does not impair the ability of the Apple Dryad who created it to feed on the enjoyment of it.

One very simple and common method of preparation is to make a baked apple.

Baked Apple (oven)

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Ingredients

• One Glamourie Apple per serving
• One Tablespoon Butter per apple
• 1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon per apple
• 1 1/2 Teaspoons Brown Sugar per apple

Preparation

1. Preheat Oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit
2. Clean and core apples.
3. Place cored apples in a pan, evenly spaced.
4. Add butter to the pan around the apples.
5. Mix brown sugar and cinnamon. Fill apple cores with the mixture.
6. Place pan in oven on the middle rack, and bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Apples should be soft and should sag slightly.
7. Remove pan from oven, and allow to cool for two minutes.
8. Serve, optionally with cream or vanilla ice cream.
9. Enjoy!
 

Baked Apple (microwave)

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Ingredients

• One Glamourie Apple
• One Tablespoon Butter
• 1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon
• 1 1/2 Teaspoons Brown Sugar

Preparation

1. Clean and core apple.
2. Place cored apple in a microwave safe bowl.
3. Add butter to the core of the apple.
4. Mix brown sugar and cinnamon. Fill apple core with the mixture. *The butter must be put in the core because there is less time for it to absorb in this preparation method.
5. Microwave on high for 3 to 5 minutes. Apple should be soft and should sag slightly.
6. Allow to cool for two minutes.
7. Serve, optionally with cream or vanilla ice cream.
8. Enjoy!