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Spiced Crab Apples

From Successful canning and preserving (1917).

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A historical recipe

Successful canning and preserving, by Ola Powell (1917).

United States

Known as an American 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.

  • Home canning. Old canning methods can let botulism through. Use current tested canning guidance.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. one quart of vinegar
  2. one quart of sugar
  3. one tablespoonful of cinnamon
  4. one teaspoonful of mace

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. Choose round crab apples uniform in size;
  2. do net pare them.
  3. Make a spiced syrup by boiling toijrilici- one quart of vinegar, one quart of sugar, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, cloves, and one teaspoonful of mace and allspice, add crab apples, and heat gently, being careful not to burst the fruit.
  4. Let stand in syrup over night, pack cold, cover witli syrup, seal, and process pint jars fifteen minutes at 180° Fa 1 1 IT 1 1 1 1 eit ( simmering ) .

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
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Credit

From Successful canning and preserving (1917), printed page 220, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/successfulcannin00powe

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.