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Apple Float

A historical recipe from The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes, by Helen Campbell (1893).

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A historical recipe

The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes, by Helen Campbell (1893). Project Gutenberg eBook #15360.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a teacupful of sugar
  2. a teaspoonful of vanilla

Method

  1. Six good, acid apples stewed and strained.
  2. When cold, add a teacupful of sugar, half a teaspoonful of vanilla, and the beaten whites of three or four eggs.
  3. Serve at once.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes, by Helen Campbell (1893). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #15360 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15360). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.