Baked Apples with Red Wine

Description
This colorful recipe has fresh secrets: apples and wine. This traditional fruit dish is made with mace and authentic fruit jam and is great for breakfast or dessert as it keeps a red-hot taste with the fruit and is enhanced with alcohol content when cooked to bold perfection.

Ingredients

 * 8 apples, cored
 * cherry or strawberry jam
 * ½ cup sugar, brown only
 * ½ tsp. mace or nutmeg
 * 1 cup red wine
 * ½ tsp. vanilla extract
 * lemon zest, optional

Directions

 * 1) Place apples in a greased casserole or baking dish. Fill each apple with jam.
 * 2) Blend sugar and mace (or nutmeg) and stir with the wine and vanilla. Pour over apples. Cover and bake at 350° F for 1 hour.
 * 3) Refrigerate for 2 to 4 hours before serving. Garnish with the lemon zest, if desired.