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Apple Ginger

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Ginger
  2. 1 quart of water
  3. Sugar
  4. Apples

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Hot sugar. Hot sugar sticks to skin and burns far hotter than boiling water: don't touch or taste it. Keep a bowl of cold water close, and keep children away while it cooks.

Method

  1. To 4lb.
  2. of apples have 4lb.
  3. of sugar, 1 quart of water, and 2oz.
  4. of best essence of ginger.
  5. First pare the fruit, cutting out every particle of core;
  6. then shape it to resemble the small kind of preserved ginger.
  7. Boil the sugar and water nearly twenty-five minutes, until it is a nice syrup, then put in the apple;
  8. be sure and not stir it much.
  9. Add the essence of ginger.
  10. Tf 2oz.
  11. be insufficient, add more.
  12. It will take nearly an hour to boil, until it becomes yellow and transparent.
  13. There will be some pieces that will not clear;
  14. put them by themselves, as they spoil the look of the rest.
  15. It will require skimming, American or Ribstone apples are the best to use.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon