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Apple Sauce

From Easy dishes for small incomes, or, The housewife's guide to practical cookery (1906).

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A historical recipe

Easy dishes for small incomes, or, The housewife's guide to practical cookery, by E. M Buchan (1906).

United Kingdom

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

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

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. Five large Apples

Cook safely

  • 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. Ingredients : Five large Apples Two tablespoonfuls of Brown Sugar Half an ounce of Butter A little Lemon Juice Water.
  2. 1.
  3. Peel, core and slice the apples into an enamelled pan.
  4. 2.
  5. Pour in sufficient water to cover the apples.
  6. 3.
  7. Stew for half an hour with the lid on.
  8. Then add the butter.
  9. 4.
  10. Add the sugar and lemon juice and mash the apples up with a silver fork.
  11. N.B.
  12. — Codlins are good faffing apples.
  13. The butter and lemon may be left out.
  14. This sauce is served with pork and goose.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Vegetable peeler
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Credit

From Easy dishes for small incomes, or, The housewife's guide to practical cookery (1906), printed page 122, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b28079000

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.