Apple Surprise

In honor of our glorious apple season here in Maine, another wonderful dessert from my great grandmother! The recipe used spelling sirup vs syrup, so I have corrected the spelling but am left to wonder if this was some sort of vernacular or if Mima was a bad speller.

Ingredients
apples of uniform size
sugar
water
orange rind or marmalade
whipped cream

Process:

• Peel, but don't core, uniform size apples.
• Prepare a rich syrup with equal parts sugar and water and cook 5 minutes.
  
• Simmer apples in syrup until they are translucent. Remove from syrup and chill.
  
• Add 2 tablespoons grated orange rind or chopped marmalade for each cup of syrup.
• Simmer several minutes, then cool.
  
• When ready to serve, spoon syrup over chilled apples.
  
• Serve with whipped cream