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Crab Apples

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. 6 quarts of apples
  2. 2 quarts of water
  3. 1½ quarts of sugar
  4. Sirup

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Syrup Source of iron

    Source of iron · 3.6 mg per 100 g, 26% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Iron contributes to normal cognitive function.
    • Iron contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Iron contributes to normal formation of red blood cells and haemoglobin.
    4 more authorised claims
    • Iron contributes to normal oxygen transport in the body.
    • Iron contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Iron contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Iron has a role in the process of cell division.

    Iron is a mineral that the body needs for growth and development. Your body uses iron to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body, and myoglobin, a protein that provides oxygen to muscles. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Syrup, Cane”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

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.

Method

  1. 6 quarts of apples.
  2. 1½ quarts of sugar.
  3. 2 quarts of water.
  4. Put the sugar and water into the preserving kettle.
  5. Stir over the fire until the sugar is dissolved.
  6. When the sirup boils skim it.
  7. Wash the fruit, rubbing the blossom end well.
  8. Put it in the boiling sirup, and cook gently until tender.
  9. It will take from twenty to fifty minutes, depending upon the kind of crab apples.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Slotted spoon
  • Kettle