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Homemade Apple Ginger

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. six pounds of apples
  3. six pounds of lump
  4. six ounces of whole white ginger
  5. four pints of cold water

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. Take six ounces of whole white ginger, bruise it a little, put into a pan with four pints of cold water, and boil slowly till soft, then drain off the liquid.
  2. Take six pounds of apples, cutting each into six pieces (the long way), core and pare them ;
  3. add six pounds of lump or granulated sugar.
  4. Boil the whole slowly, adding no more water than that poured off the ginger.
  5. Shake often to prevent burning.
  6. Boil rather more than an hour, or till the fruit becomes' a clear brown color and transparent.
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Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Colander