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Apple Marmalade

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France

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

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Cut
  2. 6 oz. of sugar
  3. Apples
  4. 2 tablespoonfuls of water

Cook safely

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

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Take one dozen of russet or Ribston pippm apples;
  2. cut them in quarters;
  3. core, peel, and put them in a stewpan, with 2 tablespoonfuls of water, and 6 oz.
  4. of sugar;
  5. put them over a very slow fire till melted;
  6. then reduce, by stirring over a fiercer fire;
  7. cool, and dish up the apple in a compote dish;
  8. sprinkle some fine sugar over the top, and glaze with the red hot salamander ;
  9. serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From The royal cookery book (1880), printed page 208, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.22174

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.