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Apple Sauce

A historical recipe from Cookery for Little Girls, by Olive Hyde Foster (1910).

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A historical recipe

Cookery for Little Girls, by Olive Hyde Foster (1910). Project Gutenberg eBook #37444.

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. a cup of cold water

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. For the accompanying apple sauce, let her peel and quarter half a dozen tart apples, put on to cook in a cup of cold water, and when tender press through a colander, sweeten to taste, and then put in a pretty glass dish and grate nutmeg over the top.
  2. This should then be covered and set away until ready to be carried to the table.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Grater
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Colander
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Cookery for Little Girls, by Olive Hyde Foster (1910). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #37444 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37444). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.