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Apple Sauce

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. a teaspoonful of fresh butter
  3. Sugar
  4. Cut
  5. One pound of sharp green apples
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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. One pound of sharp green apples.
  2. Castor sugar.
  3. Boiling water.
  4. About a teaspoonful of fresh butter.
  5. Method.
  6. — This sauce is often a failure as regards colour, frequently being a dingy brown.
  7. Try this method : With a silver knife cut the apples in quarters, remove the cores next, then peel them and put them at once into a bowl of cold water.
  8. Then put them into an enamel-lined pan ;
  9. use a large shallow one, so that there will not be a great depth of apple.
  10. Add enough boiling water just to show among the pieces.
  11. ' Cover the pan tightly so as to keep in the steam, and cook them quickly.
  12. Shake the pan now and then and stir and mash the apple with a silver or plated fork.
  13. On no account touch the fruit with an ordinary metal utensil.
  14. Add sugar to taste, also the butter.
  15. This sauce may be served hot or cold.
  16. If carefully mashed it should not require sieving.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mixing bowl
  • Chef's knife
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Wooden spoon