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Apple Paste

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United Kingdom

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

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

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. 1 lb. sugar
  2. Ginger
  3. Water
  4. Apples
  5. Cut

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.
  • 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. Pare and core the apples, preserving the parings and cores.
  2. Put in jellypan, with a little cold water.
  3. Boil well.
  4. Strain through flannel jelly-bag.
  5. Take 1 lb.
  6. sugar to each tumbler of juice, weight for weight of sugar and pared apples.
  7. Put apples in juice and boil to a pulp.
  8. Add sugar and some whole ginger, cut into small pieces.
  9. Boil 20 minutes before taking -off ;
  10. add ground ginger to taste pretty hot.
  11. Dish into moulds, and, before turning out, set moulds in hot water for a few minutes.
  12. — Mrs Morton, Barbadoes House.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Sieve